Len Over 21 wrote:


RCA Corporation began (well before WW2) as a place to hold
U.S. patents and try to keep control on the then-new technology
of radio. As a result, RCA built up a fantastic legal staff and pursued
patent filings aggressively. Back in '74 the average cost of any
electronic patent application cost about $6000, nearly all of it being
taken up by the non-patent-office Search costs. Corporate
employees of the lower levels would not get much chance to patent
anything unless a corporation had a large legal staff. I was lucky in
getting a sole patent award and don't sweat the other two at RCA
nor the one multiple-inventor patent turn-down at Electro-Optical
Systems (Xerox division).

I was an AMTS at the old RCA Sarnoff Lab in Princeton from 81 to 87.
Got 11 patents there. Mostly television signal processing. That
ended when GE raped and pillaged RCA about 15 years ago.... :-(