Patent Quotes

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. (Jerome K. Jerome)
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. View quote
Josh Billings
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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. View quote
Martin Fleischmann
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
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. View quote
George Stephenson
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. View quote
Vandana Shiva
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility. View quote
Thucydides
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. View quote
Dean Kamen
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. (Thorstein Veblen)
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. View quote
John D. Carmack
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. View quote
Albert Einstein
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. View quote
James Nasmyth
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. View quote
Irwin M. Jacobs
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
For in every action what is primarily intended by the doer, whether he acts from natural necessity or out of free will, it is the disclosure of his own image. Hence it comes about that every doer, in so far as he does, takes delight in doing; since everything that is desires its own being, and since in action the being of the doer is somehow intensified, delight necessarily follows... Thus, nothing acts unless [by acting] it makes patent its latent self. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. View quote
Jay Inslee
The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity. (Antonin Scalia)
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? View quote
Daniel Suarez
Columbus was not the first one to discover America, only the first to patent it. View quote
Andrzej Majewski
And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine. View quote
Thomas Hardy
We do not have any production secrets. We invest a lot of effort and money in new research projects. However, before our new invention is used in real life, we usually invent something better. For this reason, we do not have a single patent to protect our inventions. View quote
Tomáš Baťa