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Qualcomm got this win because of two patents relate to software. For their inventors, they are probably not working on Qualcomm's core business (licensing and modem), wondering what will happen to them? An email from their superiors saying "well done and thank you", a cash bonus maybe some extra RSU, a promotion or maybe nothing?

Anyone has experience on this?

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Employees usually get RSUs when they get a patent filed and granted, and that's it.

For Qualcomm, it seems that you get $1500 USD when your patent is filed and another $1500 USD when granted.

I guess one can pocket more rewards once your patent is proven to be more valuable to the company. The question is how much and in what form.

> I guess one can pocket more rewards once your patent is proven to be more valuable to the company. The question is how much and in what form.

I doubt most companies are going to further compensate employees for this. And Qualcomm doesn't strike me as super loyal to their employees but I might be wrong.

No, they won because they wanted to retaliate against the USA arresting a top Huewei executive.

not every single thread on HN has to be politicized. Qualcomm picked these patents months ago, they filed a lawsuit by arguing that these patents are being used by Apple without licensing. This is enough to call these concerned patents "key patents". my post is all about a question I am interested in - what kind of reward a big name high tech company is going to reward you when you are the inventor of such key patents.

Do you really think that courts in China are independent? Yes, no? If no or maybe, then China warned USA, mess with us and APPL is going quite a bit down. And APPL is the first...

Apple goes down, Qualcomm goes up, why should the US government care which of two US companies wins a ruling in China?

>>not every single thread on HN has to be politicized.

All this kvetching about politics on HN needs to stop. This court decision undeniably has a political component, and therefore must be discussed.

Technology rarely exists in a vacuum.

That sounds obvious, but I kind of doubt it in this case. Arresting a citizen vs holding a piece of hardware up for sale (in one country) due to software issues that can (fairly easily) be corrected. It doesn't seem proportional. If it was a response, I think they would have gone further and be more proportional like they seem to with everything else.

Retaliate by awarding an American company a favorable judgement and enforcing American IP laws?

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