Top 184 Patent Quotes & Sayings

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

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.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

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.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

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.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Documenting and recording paperwork, managing services like passport renewals, and processing patent applications are practices that could all be dramatically improved with robotic automation.

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.

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.

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.

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.

If you read Wall Street?s reports, they don?t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don?t talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto?s intelligence and innovation.

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.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

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.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

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!

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.

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

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.

I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities ? , ?, ? that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

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.

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 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.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

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.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

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

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.