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
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
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
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas… — Charles Landry 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
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to… — James Madison 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
There is a person that says they invented the podcast and they are suing Adam Carolla, because he is the top of… — Jay Mohr 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
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
“Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics” — Kalyan C. Kankanala 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
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
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
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
“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
[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
"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the… — Paul Laffoley 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
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher 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
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image