Necessity is the mother-in-law of patents. — The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now. — Kellan Lutz 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
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do… — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“We love patents, but not unconditionally; We believe in patents, but not mindlessly; We value patents, but not at the cost of… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value… — Thomas Pogge 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
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
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
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
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
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image