[bandofthehawk]

The only "system for payoff" I've seen with software patents is patent trolls. Are there cases of software inventors being rewarded for their software more fairly because they had a patent?

[oriolid]

I think every every company I've worked at that had R&D had some kind of reward system for patents. Yes, most of the software patents were nonsense but those who have their names on it still did get paid.

[waterhouse]

Guessing those rewards are in the hundreds of dollars, probably a fraction of the engineer salary that went into the technical work.