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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by londons_explore on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:47AM (#18568403)
Inside most companies there is pressure to get a few patents.

At promotion time, people will ask 'if you've been researching $thing for 3 months, why haven't you patented anything yet?'.

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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by api on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:24AM (#18569714)
That's hilarious. 3 months is far too short of a time to actually invent anything meaningful and get far enough along with it to determine whether it would actually be worth patenting.
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