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Quotes About Patent

No one has a patent on the truth. Find yours.
~ Debbie Miller
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --
~ Emily Dickinson
Invent things that people actually want. Keep your thoughts to yourself until you are ready to patent your invention
~ Eoin Colfer
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
~ Donald Knuth
The people - could you patent the sun ?
~ Jonas Salk
If the yellow patent leather flats fit...
~ Adriana Trigiani
Einstein looked as if he'd just smoked an exploding cigar." Albert's years at the patent office were wonderful.
~ Jess M. Brallier
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.
~ Lonnie Johnson
Throughout American economic life, regulatory barriers to entry and competition limit innovation by providing excessive monopoly privileges through copyright and patent laws, restrict occupational choice by protecting incumbent service providers through occupational licensing restrictions, and create artificial scarcity through land-use regulation. They contribute to increased inequality while reducing productivity growth.
~ Robert J. Gordon
EFG 112-A. PATENT 4,125,662. WAREHAM ELECTRIC COMPANY, BOSTON. TOLERANCES 1–20 MG, .1–15 MT. " 'mG,' " Logan read aloud. "Do you suppose that's milligauss?" "I think so. And I think mT stands for microtesla.
~ Lincoln Child
Rather than just reacting to events, as transportation planners tend to do with traffic congestion, makers of, say, a patent system can construct one to reward creators or distribute intellectual property in ways that are not simply reacting to market pressures. We don't only have to enlarge what is there. We can light out for new territory, and make new places, and markets.
~ Alex Marshall
So a patent is a pact between an inventor and society," continued Altschuler. "In exchange for twenty years of exclusive use of an invention, the inventor is required to disclose the invention publicly, in writing. In enough detail so that others can duplicate it. And build upon it. You can still choose to keep an invention a trade secret, of course, but if you do, you don't get protection. You basically take your chances that competitors won't learn your secret.
~ Douglas E. Richards
That's in the actual patent. Really! You can find the patent and read it for yourself. All you have to do is Google its official USPTA number, which is US10144532B2.
~ Douglas E. Richards
She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.
~ Annalee Newitz
People have to respect intellectual property.
~ Coco Lee
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
~ John Perry Barlow
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
Every new idea in any field needs protection.
~ Edwin Catmull
I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
~ Woody Norris
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
~ Davy Crockett
I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.
~ Lori Greiner
If we collectively set our minds to improving technology of a particular type we can do that, and it takes some collective action, some support for research, or some provision of patent protection, or a mixture of the two, and some focussed energy.
~ Paul Romer
Too bad I can't afford to patent it. I can make a fortune. But again,I have a fortune. -Batman, Year One comic.
~ Frank Miller