Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams 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
“You cannot make one invent at gun point. Forget the movies, and think about pampering inventors, not threatening them” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“Most patentability requirements are concepts, they can be moulded to suit your invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge… — Catharine Sedgwick 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
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy… — Howard Schultz 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
Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they… — Kevin J. Anderson 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
It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright… — Shiva Ayyadurai 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 no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was… — Joan Rivers 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
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the… — Lonnie Johnson 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
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
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
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the… — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Children listen to their parents And to their wife when they are bigger. In places where women are of little consequence, they… — A.J. Beirens Copy Share Image
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
