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Re:Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's d... by ptaipale on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:46AM (#17166866)
The patent bonus at Nokia was just that, a patent bonus; the purpose of the program was to systematically collect a large portfolio of patents; such a patent mass is used in IPR negotiations with other technology giants. Those patents were mass-produced - I got paid for one too - but I wouldn't call them "inventions".

There were other, substantially larger bonuses for innovations made by staff, when these innovations had larger economical impact (for instance, optimizing the production line).

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