Patents Quotes
Patents Quote of the day
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.
Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.
We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.