Patents Quotes

With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.

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.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

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

In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

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

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

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

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.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

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.

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

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

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.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

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.

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

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.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.