quotes about Patents
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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 -
Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
-- Candace Bushnell -
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?
-- Daniel SuarezSource : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.81, Penguin
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From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself
-- Don Marquis -
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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
-- Donald Knuth -
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
-- Donald Knuth -
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
-- Dorothy Canfield FisherSource : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
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Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.
-- Drew Curtis -
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As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.
-- Eben Moglen -
We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
-- Edwin Land -
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
-- Edwin Percy WhippleSource : Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
-- Emily Dickinson -
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 out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
-- Eric Ries -
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.
-- Fritz MachlupSource : "An Economic Review of the Patent System". Book by Fritz Machlup, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Study No. 15, p. 79-80, 1958.
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I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
-- Gary Player -
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
-- George StephensonSource : Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195
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I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.
-- Gordon Gould -
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.
-- Henry ChesbroughSource : "Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.
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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
-- Howard Schultz -
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
-- James Fallows -
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
-- James GoslingSource : "Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open Source Software" by David Kravets, www.wired.com. August 13, 2010.
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In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
-- James NasmythSource : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.301, BoD – Books on Demand
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An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
-- John Sterling -
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
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We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.
-- Mark Driscoll -
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
-- Miguel de Icaza -
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
-- Miguel de Icaza -
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
-- Miguel de Icaza -
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
-- Samuel Hopkins Adams -
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
-- Stephen Hawking -
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
-- Thomas A. Edison -
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
-- Vandana Shiva -
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
-- Catharine Sedgwick -
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
-- Irwin M. Jacobs -
I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".
-- Jennifer Tour Chayes -
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.
-- King C. Gillette -
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
-- Viet D. Dinh -
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
-- Yusuf Hamied -
If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody.
-- Jaime KingSource : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com