pixelslave -> RE: DreamLover 2000- Male management and boyfriend training unit (9/2/2007 6:38:51 AM)
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I'd agree with you Vad. I used to get something like a $1200 bonus each time one was issued (initially there was none) and and a smaller one each time a patent application was filed. We had attorneys working for us that we'd hired away from the patent office to help work the system and get ours processed through it quickly. One of mine only took a year to go through! [image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m24.gif[/image] As I said before, there were many things I did that I know we could have also gotten patents on, but as the rights all would have belonged to the company and I didn't really see the value in our patenting it (other than preventing the competition from using the same simple techniques obvious to me), the incentive wasn't there to put the effort into generating the notes and other things required to file. If your situation was as I suspect anything close to mine and others I know, I had become another commodity the company felt they could purchase like nuts & bolts they used to build cars. When you're treated like a common commodity, after a while, you don't feel inspired or motivated to do the creative things that "nuts & bolts" can't do for the same price you've been valued at. [image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m23.gif[/image] There's very little I'd try to patent today unless it was really groundbreaking work. Even then I'd make certain the patent was broad enough to cover all the variations and improvements I could envision one potentially making later on mine, otherwise it would be worthless and unenforceable for exactly the reasons you cite. Needless to say, I'm happy to be away from that business and doing other things I enjoy. [:D] - pixel Collared to Majik
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