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Quotes About Patent

Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
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
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
~ Irwin M. Jacobs
In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.
~ Austin Aries
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.
~ Terry Pratchett
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.
~ David Sarnoff
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
~ Emily Dickinson
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I'm Julia Malone and nobody has the patent on me!
~ Katie St. Claire
By 2005, Monsanto had filed ninety lawsuits against U.S. farmers for patent infringement, meaning GM genes found in the fields of farmers that had not paid for the right, and Monsanto had been awarded over $15 million. I'll tell you here and now: We have a screwed-up justice system. These lawsuits and seeds are nothing less than corporate extortion of American farmers, said Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, as reported in the Seed Savers Summer Edition 2005.
~ Janisse Ray
In a matter of months, the Canadian physician developed a distinctive process for making illuminating gas from bitumen with coal oil as an intermediary. When he applied for a Nova Scotia patent on his process in June 1849, he used the patent to protect his products' brand names as well, calling them kerosene and kerosene gas (from keros, Greek for "wax," and -ene to associate the new products with familiar camphene).
~ Richard Rhodes
One of Szilard's sidelines, then and later, was invention. Between 1924 and 1934 he applied to the German patent office individually or jointly with his partner Albert Einstein for twenty-nine patents.
~ Richard Rhodes
His problem, his son believed, was "too many irons in the fire": a nice cliché for an industrialist and inventor who worked with kilns. "One by one, his inventions fell into other hands, some by fair sale, but most of them by piracy, when it became known that he had nothing left wherewith to maintain his rights. In short, with seven children to provide for, he found himself a ruined man."12
~ Richard Rhodes
Even the streamlined patent-reform bill before the Senate is significantly controversial. Some estimate the reform could create as many as 2 million jobs, but when you look under the covers, there does not appear to be any support for this. And small businesses, corporations, and individual inventors are significantly opposed."
~ Yar Chaikovsky
For those interested in patent litigation, commit early and never underestimate how hard you and the rest of the team must work. There are a lot of smart, talented patent trial lawyers."
~ Yar Chaikovsky
The calculation of damages needs reform in patent law. We need some method of damages apportionment similar to what is making its way through Congress. As most of the companies I represent are in the high tech arena, the market capture rule, especially in cases where the plaintiff solely seeks a reasonable royalty, is problematic."
~ Yar Chaikovsky
You really need to focus on, are you willing to back it up with litigation, because you cannot monetize through licensing without being willing to incur the risk of litigation," Mr. Chaikovsky explained. "If you are not willing to put up a fight, everyone else knows that therefore you cannot monetize your patent."
~ Yar Chaikovsky
How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness
~ Dean Cavanagh
Bad sleepers! This is a new insult, and I intend to take out a patent for it, being the first to have discovered that it is an excommunication in itself.
~ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In the beginning of human creativity, everything good was God-given, there was no patent on manna from heaven, no copyright on the blueprints of the Mishkan, and people entertained themselves by dancing with a statue of a golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai. The Bible is of course all in the public domain; the Lord gave His words to Moses, gratis.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, "So, your dad broke into the patent office." "Yep," Kat told him. "How many goats am I going to owe him for that?" "More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got.
~ Ally Carter
People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.
~ Craig Venter
In June 2008, Amazon.com filed for a new patent with a Microsoft Kinect–like feature for making purchases with body movements. Anticipating computers and other devices that can track a user's movements, the new Amazon patent is titled "Movement recognition as input mechanism." Forget keypads and mice, you may soon be able to make a purchase simply by nodding your head at your computer, Kindle, or cell phone. Industry wags have dubbed it the "1-Nod patent.
~ Richard L. Brandt