Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag...
by Rebelgecko on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:45AM
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Like someone else said, mostly licensing. The place where I work is a bit unusual (non profit, don't really have "products" and when we do it's typically a small team so everyone gets to be on the patent). I'm sure it's harder to divvy up at Intel, where a new CPU generation might take advantage of dozens of patents.
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Re:Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Messag...
by Buge on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:02AM
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If your company's business model is to license patents, then you should align your employees' incentives to that, give them money when patents are licensed. That's what your employer does.
If your company's business model is to build and sell products, and prevent competitors from being as good, and avoid getting sued, then it's beneficial to have as many patents as possible. So Intel also aligns its employees' incentives with with its business model, by giving an incentive to create as many patents as possible.