Re:Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at...
by pithic on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:55AM
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It's also a biased component. Patent-filing opportunities mostly go to senior or above engineers at larger firms.
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Re:Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at...
by DonaldFisk on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:37AM
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Filing is done by the applicant, who is generally the employer of the inventor (i.e. the company they work for). Each inventor must have made a significant innovative technical contribution to the invention, and anyone who makes such a contribution has to be an inventor. Managing or employing an inventor doesn't count. The only bias I can think of is that the patent might be filed some time after the invention was made, but in my experience this is at most a few years, usually one or two. Source: I am an inventor on six patents (average age 40).
Re:Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at...
by Radle on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:44AM
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Or to private people who have money.
Guess what most twenty year old don't have?
Re:Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at...
by DonaldFisk on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:40AM
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I'd be very surprised if more than an handful of cases fall into that category. Do you have any data showing that is significant?
Re:Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at...
by sndean on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:19AM
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Vox had an article on something related to this [0], but you'd have to take an extra step to say this means these the inventors, at 20-years-old, were or weren't obtaining patents because of parent income.
[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8225165/patents-innovation-soc...