We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent. . . and the advance of anything known can be reached.
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
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 --
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.
And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread. . . is not always about what the patent is like, or what the factory is like - it's about can you get your idea to spread, or not.
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill
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.
The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.
. . . These healers. . . my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories. . . . But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars. . . well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?
If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
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.
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.
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.
Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.
