Credit for inventions incorrectly credited or How companies go bad
As part of writing about the Amazon Data Center management tool Maya, Storage Mojo which is an excellent and a unique storage blog contains details about credit for inventions in Amazon being incorrectly distributed or rather being falsely attributed to others.
I cannot be sure of the above case, but from Brocade days, it brought back memories. Brocade had few good practises and many bad ones. In Brocade, on patent applications, names of managers and others were added who had nothing to do with inventions except maybe manage the engineers who created it and sometimes not even that. Some actual examples.
Publication US20040028063: For patent “Host bus adaptor-based virtualization switch”, which has everyone from the VP, Managers to Hardware engineer’s names, but created and work done by Subhojit and Naveen.
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