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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. — Nathan Myhrvold

But a patent is not a hunting license. Is it not a reward for the search, but compensation for its successful conclusion — Martin J. Adelman

To tell you the truth although it would put Â£500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had. — George Stephenson

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Patents lend credibility to your products. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? — Daniel Suarez

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom! — Candace Bushnell

Love is a verb. When it becomes a noun, it's over."

from "The God Patent" by Ransom Stephens — Ransom Stephens

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva

How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness — Dean Cavanagh

Jack was well loved in this community Which was a patent lie. But being dead had done wonders for his reputation. — Maggie Stiefvater

In 1411, the French Crown granted a patent declaring that only the cheese of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon could be called Roquefort cheese. — Mark Kurlansky

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that. — Woody Norris

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. — James Nasmyth

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth

He next made arrangements to patent his bridge, and to construct at Rotherham the large model of it exhibited on Paddington Green, London. — Thomas Paine

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. — Miguel De Icaza

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots. — Donatella Versace

I'm Julia Malone and nobody has the patent on me! — Katie St. Claire

Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? — Jonas Salk

After filing a patent, your job is only quarter done. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down. — Debbi Fields

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Mission of mercy, he said, straightening up, his voice so cold, he could have owned the patent. — Tara Janzen

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. — Irwin M. Jacobs

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. — George Presbury Rowell

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling

No one has a patent on the truth. Find yours. — Debbie Miller

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag! — Gary Player

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

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. — Linus Torvalds

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. — George Bernard Shaw

If the yellow patent leather flats fit... — Adriana Trigiani

Be Patient to become a Patent — Zeeshan Ahmed

A patent a day keeps the competitor away. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. — Stephen Hawking

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emil Cioran

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing called as cheap patents. Anything cheap is not worthwhile. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell. — Claire Vaye Watkins

My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on. — Kato Lomb

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement. — Drew Curtis

Too bad I can't afford to patent it.
I can make a fortune.
But again,I have a fortune.
-Batman, Year One comic. — Frank Miller

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. — Mark Twain

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent ... and the advance of anything known can be reached. — King C. Gillette

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. — P.G. Wodehouse

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! — Frances Parkinson Keyes

The people - could you patent the sun ? — Jonas Salk

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. — William O. Douglas

Startups do not need cost effective patent filings, they need a strong IP system to help them succeed. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Patent Good and Public Good merge more often than you can imagine. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron

No one has the patent on you. — Katie St. Claire

Holding a patent doesn't mean you are inventive, and not holding a patent doesn't mean you are not. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Shoes are a good starting point. I've become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable. — Jessica Raine

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that. — Tupac Shakur

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. — Miguel De Icaza