There are no patents in finance.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

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

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

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

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

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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

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

There's no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States.

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

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

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

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

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

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

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

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

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

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

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

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

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

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

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

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

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

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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

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.

Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

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

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

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

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

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.

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

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

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

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

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!

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.

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