Patents Quotes

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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce… — Linus Torvalds
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. — George Bernard Shaw
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with… — John Carmack
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis… — David Shields
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or… — Henry Chesbrough
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person… — Albert Einstein
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents. — Nikola Tesla
We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He… — Mark Driscoll
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how… — Dean Kamen

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