A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
“Most patentability requirements are concepts, they can be moulded to suit your invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Risk of patent infringement is relative, often wrapped and presented in absolute terms” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance.… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America’s history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well… — Darin Gibby Copy Share Image
We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights,… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“One must Judge Patents of Public Funded Institutions in India by their Inventive Contribution, not financial or commercial value they have generated.… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
“If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.” — Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. — Irwin M. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Inventors are honorable not because they make a difference, but because they want to make a difference against all odds” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
