Innovation Quote by Lina Khan

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

— Stephen Manes

We required AT&T to open up its patent vault. We ended up broking them - breaking them up. That ended up feeding huge amounts…

— Lina Khan

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

— Steve Jobs

“What made Bell Labs fundamentally different had as much to do with antitrust law as the geniuses it attracted.”

— Steven Johnson

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

— Nathan Myhrvold

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into…

— James Gleick

“In 1958 AT&T, the owner of Bell Labs, was served with an antitrust court order that forbade it to ever enter the computer business…

— Arun Rao

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

— Al Franken

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

— Peter Diamandis

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

— Bill Gates

Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits.

— Lina Khan