Ask HN: Do Companies Hire `Inventors`?
I used to work with software patents in the past, as a Researcher digging evidence for patent lawyers. I know how they work and I can do searches quickly (searches to figure out if such a thing has been done). Also, ever since I've been a child. I always think of ideas, in any way shape or form. Most of the time I hate reading and learning how it is supposed to be learnt, and I try to learn it by myself by playing with it. This sometimes (however slightly) leads to unusual and unique approaches and solutions.
My current company pays $1k for each patent filing. So far I got 1 (I'm working on another one currently, I also have one published Software Paper from my masters thesis). I gotta say, it feels pretty good to get an Invention on your name. I'm not gonna get any royalties cause company claims everything, but regardless, I feel worthy. A feeling which I never experience when my code is deployed and it is doing what it is supposed to do.
Is someone out there hiring Inventors a.k.a Serial Patent Filers for the sake of increasing Intellectual Property or for researching new market entry points or expansions?
At this stage in my career I have realized that I do not get any satisfaction from my work as a Software Engineer and I do not enjoy the usualness of the day-to-day life.
I would like something that I could do wildly; something that would be super chaotic but with possible success, and where I could work from anywhere, and get ideas about the most random possible things, and put them in paper to make them official ``Inventions``.
If you know of any such companies or roles - I would greatly appreciate you sharing them with me. May the good of the world find you!
Cheers!