Breakthrough Quote by Eric Ries

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good…

— James Dyson

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate…

— Ha-Joon Chang

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done.…

— George Washington Carver

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…

— Linus Torvalds

“Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We…

— Lonnie Johnson

Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of…

— Paul Laffoley

“Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience”

— Colin Myles

“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative…

— John Harvey-Jones

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time…

— Barbara Bergmann

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest…

— James Surowiecki