Quotes About Patents

Thomas Edison was a graduate of Cooper Union. Like Otis, he is principally famous for things he didn't do. He didn't invent electricity, or the lightbulb, the phonograph or the movies. These misappropriations didn't bother him much: he didn't correct folk. What he was good at, what he really knew, was patents.

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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

America's share of the world's patents has increased from 10 percent when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 to 20 percent today.

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.

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.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Edison averaged one patent for every ten to twelve days of his adult life.

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Ray Brinkman, who spent two decades in the trenches protecting patents, cheers each time the police subdue an anarchist. But Ray Brinkman, whom God stopped with a little backhand flick, is smashing glass.

Gesner's US patents were issued in June 1854. For feedstock, his company would initially use cannel coal from New Brunswick.