You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents,… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
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 days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly… — Robert Pozen 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
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm 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
There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson 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
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
“Most patentability requirements are concepts, they can be moulded to suit your invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.” — Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala 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
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
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. — Stephen Hawking 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
“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
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached. — King C. Gillette Copy Share Image
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? — Jonas Salk 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
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
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're… — Anna Quindlen 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
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
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than… — William Walker Atkinson 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
“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
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain 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
Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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