The first patent I submitted while I was at Xilinx was finally awarded. It was frustrating to wait nearly four years for the system to process it, though. The patent system is kind of broken and bad patents do manage to go through, but this one was actually useful. We’ll see how the other five I have in the pipeline take to be approved ;)
“Method of measuring the performance of a transceiver in a programmable logic device” (USPTO, PDF)
4 Comments for first patent issued, finally
Nick | May 18, 2007 at 12:21
philip | May 18, 2007 at 20:23
congrats! did they give you a plaque to put on the wall? i always wondered exactly what it is you get from them.
Author comment by Saar Drimer | May 19, 2007 at 20:46
Xilinx is very good with compensating their inventors. You get (money) awards with each step (submission of idea, submission of patent, and issuance of patent). In addition, you get a plaque for your office (or wherever ;) and another placed in a hallway wall along with the other couple thousands of patents Xilinx has. It is quite nice, and everyone passes through it on the way to the cafeteria. Of course, I don’t get any awards or a personal plaque since I am no longer there, but hopefully I’ll appear on the wall.
Helen | May 22, 2007 at 05:31
Great news, Saar. Very happy for you! Glad you are posting again.
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