No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
“The inventive step requirement makes a lawyer out of an inventor” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge… — Catharine Sedgwick Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made,… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the judge threw Moore’s suit out of court, saying he had no case. Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Just as James Watt refused to license his steam engine, suppressing the development of that technology over the quarter century that elapsed… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
