Development Quote by Martin Fleischmann

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights…

— Jeffrey Sachs

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions…

— Henry Bessemer

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

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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— James Boyle

“Patents stand for you when everything else is lost”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

— Bob Frankston

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate…

— Ha-Joon Chang

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day…

— Mark Twain