Patented Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention…
— Northrop Frye
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity…
— James Payn
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Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural,…
— Julia Child
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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were…
— Henry Bessemer
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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one…
— Niall Ferguson
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The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things…
— Robert Pozen
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If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off…
— Dhani Harrison
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of…
— Elihu Thomson
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It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative…
— Brian Thompson
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Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and…
— John Muir
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the…
— Joe Klein
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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he…
— Tina Turner
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Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the…
— Eoin Colfer
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Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we…
— Richard Louv
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a…
— Ally Carter
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But I gotta say, I am so proud right now.†Axel flattened his hand over his heart. “You borrowed my patented move, proving I’m made…
— Gena Showalter
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Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held…
— John Bates Clark
Who Wrote These Patented Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Patented Quotes as follows: