Business Quote by Howard Schultz

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 I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

— Tupac Shakur

“A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so.…

— Francis Collins

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

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

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able…

— Vandana Shiva

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

— James Gleick

Today the patent office is obsolete.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

“We love patents, but not unconditionally; We believe in patents, but not mindlessly; We value patents, but not at the cost of our core…

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Patents stand for you when everything else is lost”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the…

— David Shields