1 in 80?

[the_s_guy]

When an invention assessment-and-marketing firm says that they deem perhaps one in eighty submitted inventions suitable for taking to market, one would assume that this is because they are very strict about whether an idea is (a) engineerable, (b) mass-manufacturable, and (c) marketable for a profit.

However, I'm starting to wonder whether it's because (d) the inventors get fed up and leave because the people at the firm doing the assessment never seem to be around!

(Also because at least one of the divisions seems to be incompetent. Hmm.)