Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man” — Kalyan C. Kankanala 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
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 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
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 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
I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made,… — Gordon Gould 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
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was… — Terry Pratchett 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking… — Charles Handy 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
And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
America can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Risk of patent infringement is relative, often wrapped and presented in absolute terms” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.” — Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
“Respect for inventors is the key for success of a patent system” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents. — Nikola Tesla 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 began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. — Irwin M. Jacobs Copy Share Image
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
“The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. — Miguel de Icaza 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
