I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
“We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals,… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need."… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.” — James Boyle Copy Share Image
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Children listen to their parents And to their wife when they are bigger. In places where women are of little consequence, they… — A.J. Beirens Copy Share Image
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
