Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski 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
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt 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
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“The inventive step requirement makes a lawyer out of an inventor” — Kalyan C. Kankanala 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
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents — Elon Musk 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
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
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
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I… — Thucydides 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
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
“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
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable 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
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
