jaz50y - Slashdot User

Comment ALL new Verizon charges are money-grabs. (Score 1) 562

by jaz50y on Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:49PM (#38534348) Attached to: Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online

Money-grab is the business model of Verizon. Everything new charge and variation is predicated on nickel-and-diming customers. What is amazing here is they have come up with something that people will actually notice, especially after the Bank of America ATM fiasco, when they normally work with tiny charges that no one is supposed to see. On the other hand, using autopay with credit card has never cost anything and still doesn't, and most utilities (water, gas, electricity) already charge similarly for the payment procedures for which Verizon is going to charge. So the real question is, do you accept their business model and keep your account, or do you leave? I'm leaving.

Designing a Patent-Incentive Program? 221

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, 2008 @05:40PM from the to-the-degree-that-patents-are-good dept.

SoulMaster writes "The company I work for (we are a one-year-old start-up) has recently started filing patents to protect some of its intellectual property. At the onset of the patent process, one of the executives drafted a very basic Patent Incentive Program (PIP) which is now under full review to ensure that it is both accurate and fair. The basics of our original PIP are that inventors receive (or co-inventors share): $500 for each provisional filing, $1500 for an actual patent filing (with full claim-sets defined), and $5000 for any patent that is granted by the USPTO. While the current program seems fair to our staff, we have been unable to find anything to compare it to. Moreover, the revamp of the program is likely to grant an equity stake in the company (via an Options grant) rather than cash payouts. I've scoured Google for information, but because internally documented PIPs aren't generally public knowledge, the results are limited. Thus, I have decided to ask Slashdot users: How does the company you work for handle Patent incentives? Do they have them at all? Are they cash or equity based?"

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