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Patents Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I…
- If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in…
- It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing -…
- In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
- Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
- Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
More Patents Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Abraham Lincoln
- Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln
- ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — 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… — 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… — John Carmack
- Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no… — David Shields
- In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or… — Henry Chesbrough