Benefits Quote by George Washington Carver

Today the patent office is obsolete.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

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment.…

— Lori Greiner

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

— Larry Wall

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

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't…

— Eric Ries

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

— Elon Musk

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit…

— Benjamin Franklin

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

— Abraham Lincoln

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've…

— Larry Page

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

— W. Edwards Deming

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to…

— Fritz Machlup