Patents Quotes
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
— James Gleick
Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
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.
— George Stephenson
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
— Thomas A. Edison
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
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
— Richard Stallman
Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
— Azar Nafisi
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
— Candace Bushnell
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
— Vandana Shiva
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.
— Nathan Myhrvold
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
— Donald Knuth
After filing a patent, your job is only quarter done.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
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
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
— John Sterling
If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
— Tupac Shakur
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
— Bob Frankston
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
— Thomas Jefferson
Patents stand for you when everything else is lost.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Start-ups do not need cheap patents, they need quality patents.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
A patent a day keeps the competitor away.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this
— Grace Thompson
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
— Miguel De Icaza
Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production.
— Jared Diamond
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
— Richard Stallman
manufacturers using patents,
— Eric Von Hippel
Patents protect ideas, but only if they are implementable.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Inventions Change the World, Not Patents
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Patents do not promote progress of science and technology, Inventors do.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
— Emily Dickinson
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
— Larry Wall
We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.
— Antonio Perez
All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
There is nothing called as cheap patents. Anything cheap is not worthwhile.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.
— Melissa George
Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.
— Drew Curtis
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
— Charles Duhigg
Patent Good and Public Good merge more often than you can imagine.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
