first patent issued, finally
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)
May 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Congratulations! Now you just need to dream up a name for it, get the name registered as a trademark and get ready to complain when we all start using it as a verb…
May 18th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
congrats! did they give you a plaque to put on the wall? i always wondered exactly what it is you get from them.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:31 am
Great news, Saar. Very happy for you! Glad you are posting again.