Patents Quotes

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

— Candace Bushnell

“Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

— Antonio Perez

“Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Inventions Change the World, Not Patents”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

The people - could you patent the sun ?

— Jonas Salk

“A Patent is a Grant, but Inventorship is a Right”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

— Jonas Salk

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

— Kellan Lutz

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

There's no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States.

— Alex Azar

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

— Richard Stallman

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he…

— John Godfrey Saxe

Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents…

— Alex Tabarrok

Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to…

— James Madison

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do…

— George Stephenson

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event…

— Miguel de Icaza

Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every…

— Josef Pieper

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure…

— Richard Lewontin

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The…

— Burton Rascoe

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

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

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

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

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe…

— C. S. Lewis

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

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to…

— Lawrence Hargrave

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no…

— David Shields

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Ultimately the judge threw Moore’s suit out of court, saying he had no case. Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the…

— Rebecca Skloot

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible…

— Matt Shea

Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for…

— Lawrence Lessig

“Just as James Watt refused to license his steam engine, suppressing the development of that technology over the quarter century that elapsed…

— Adam Greenfield

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