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Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom! -- Candace Bushnell
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. -- Scott Adams
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out -- Emily Dickinson
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. -- Jay Inslee
Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors. -- James Gleick
While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly. -- Robert H. Jackson
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system. -- Viet D. Dinh
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it. -- Mark Cuban
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result. -- Viet D. Dinh
Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it? -- Francis Collins
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. -- Miguel de Icaza
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. -- William O. Douglas
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. -- Nathan Myhrvold
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. -- Lord Byron
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. -- James Fallows
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. -- Stephen Hawking
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. -- Dean Kamen
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
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway. -- Eric Ries
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. -- Miguel de Icaza
People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. -- Craig Venter
There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on. -- Lee Kun-hee
The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection? -- Robert Pozen
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 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
It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout. -- Charles Duhigg
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all. -- Thomas Frank
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Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement. -- Drew Curtis
The people - could you patent the sun ? -- Jonas Salk
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that. -- Tupac Shakur
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. -- James Nasmyth
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. -- Miguel de Icaza
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. -- Vandana Shiva
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. -- Donald Knuth
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. -- Irwin M. Jacobs
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots. -- Donatella Versace
I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. -- George Presbury Rowell
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. -- John Sterling
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. -- Josh Billings
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? -- Jonas Salk
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill -- Theodore Levitt
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached. -- King C. Gillette
Shoes are a good starting point. I've become quite fussy about them! A patent pair of Sonia Rykiel oxfords have become invaluable. -- Jessica Raine
Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? -- Daniel Suarez
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. -- Mark Twain
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. -- George Bernard Shaw
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 wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag! -- Gary Player
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things -- Abraham Lincoln
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Emile M. Cioran
Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down. -- Debbi Fields
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them. -- Linus Torvalds
Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year. -- Drew Curtis
Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat. -- Sun Tzu
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines! -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. -- James Gosling
To tell you the truth although it would put Â£500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had. -- George Stephenson
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. -- Thorstein Veblen
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
The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent. -- Preston Sturges
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention -- Dean Kamen
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. -- George Orwell
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
If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody. -- Jaime King
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company. -- Howard Schultz
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective. -- Pierre Bourdieu
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense. -- Elvis Costello
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. -- Eben Moglen
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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