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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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1798 points jerryX | 2 comments | 30 Nov 18 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CalChris ◴[30 Nov 18 06:40 UTC] No.18567228[source]▶
Regina Dugan is a former head of DARPA as well as ATAP. She has an impressive resume. Why would she do something like this? For a not particularly important patent, LED popup books? It seems bizarre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan

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1. londons_explore ◴[30 Nov 18 11:47 UTC] No.18568403[source]▶
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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2. api ◴[30 Nov 18 15:24 UTC] No.18569714[source]▶
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.