Become Quote by Irwin M. Jacobs

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

“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

— Thomas Jefferson

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

— Jeff Bezos

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

— Abraham Lincoln

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

— Scott Adams

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

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

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

— James Gleick

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

— Ralph H. Baer

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone,…

— Thomas Jefferson