I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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.
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need. " I have to debate people all the time who say that Nature can't provide enough.
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.
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.
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.
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.
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.
No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.
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.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.