Army Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

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

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

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

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

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

— Adam Cohen

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would…

— Bill Gates

Today the patent office is obsolete.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

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

“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the…

— Ernst Alexanderson

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

“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.”

— James Boyle

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen