Welcome to the world of innovation and intellectual property protection! At Patent Quotes, we delve into the fascinating realm of patents and the brilliant minds behind groundbreaking inventions. Patents play a crucial role in safeguarding the rights of inventors, fostering innovation, and driving technological advancements across various industries. Whether you’re an aspiring inventor, a curious mind, or a legal professional, this page is your gateway to a collection of insightful and inspiring patent-related quotes. These quotes encapsulate the essence of innovation, the challenges of patenting, and the profound impact that patents have on our society.
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The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs. J. D. Vance
People are getting patents on things that are too general. Jerry Yang
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. James Nasmyth
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
Documenting and recording paperwork, managing services like passport renewals, and processing patent applications are practices that could all be dramatically improved with robotic automation. Will Hurd
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
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. Charles Duhigg
If you didn’t have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can’t copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way. James Dyson
One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea – in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product. Scott Weiss
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. Larry Wall
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. Martin Fleischmann
At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation. Aaron Patzer
My very first publication was an estimator – this was a statistical procedure – a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn’t successful, but maybe I have some of him in me. Robert J. Shiller
There are no patents in finance. Stephen A. Schwarzman
Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. Craig Venter
There’s no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States. Alex Azar
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul. James Gleick
I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren’t allowed to go in the store to try them on. Claudette Colvin
In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business. Austin Aries
With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff – whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps – are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed. Jonathan Zittrain
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
Like patents – which also seek to protect the little guy – unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole. Sarah Lacy
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas. Irwin M. Jacobs
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. Peter Diamandis
If we collectively set our minds to improving technology of a particular type we can do that, and it takes some collective action, some support for research, or some provision of patent protection, or a mixture of the two, and some focussed energy. Paul Romer
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
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased – the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent. Davy Crockett
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
Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you’re looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge. Lonnie Johnson
If you look at the world’s top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I’ll pay a royalty. But I shouldn’t be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices. Yusuf Hamied
If people don’t get paid for their inventions, that’s not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren’t in a position to take them to the next level. If you don’t enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you. Nathan Myhrvold
Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes. George M. Church
In our family, when you have a part-time job you are then responsible for non-essential clothing. Glittery tops, skirts with tassels, clompy patent leather shoes that are the sensible girl’s version of stilettos. Sarah Millican
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. Nathan Myhrvold
Patents have a place in medical science – for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge. Adam Cohen
When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame. Tech N9ne
Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry. Ted Waitt
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. Nathan Myhrvold
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
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
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They’re doing what I’m doing! Nathan Myhrvold
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. Richard Stallman
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
I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that’s used in CDs and DVDs. Lonnie Johnson
You know, in China, they say, come on over, we’ll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things. Debbie Stabenow
Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury. Adam Draper
I named my software ‘EMAIL,’ (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents. Shiva Ayyadurai
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza
An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy. Ray J
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. William O. Douglas
IBM isn’t investing billions of dollars every year into research and development – and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade – as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible. Samuel J. Palmisano
It’s not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business. Jerry Yang
‘Product life’ is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a ‘product,’ understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property. Michael Gerber
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. Larry Wall
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. Richard Stallman
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. Lord Byron
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
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. Linus Torvalds
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. Melissa George
Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won’t fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents. Kevin J. Anderson
Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins – a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty – everything happens because of ignorance. Arunachalam Muruganantham
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. Donald Knuth
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult. Alex Tabarrok
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. Nassau William Senior
My parents let me get my outfit in the gayest place possible, the ‘International Male Catalog.’ They sold mostly speedos and thongs and clubwear, and I was like, I’m getting that sheer shirt with the dragon on it, and then those vinyl patent leather pants and the cheetah platform boots. Willam Belli
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs. Barton Gellman
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
While I support granting drug companies patents to recover their investment and encourage innovation, companies that take advantage of this goodwill to build a monopoly must be stopped. Mike Braun
Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual. Ory Okolloh
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
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that’s not the purpose of the world of patents. John Sulston
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else’s patent. Miguel de Icaza
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
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
Some big pharmaceutical companies have engaged in dirty tricks to extend their patents, holding monopolies on certain drugs to pad their profits at consumers’ expense. Mike Braun
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
Biologics must be grown in living systems – fermented, for example, in large vats of bacteria cells. This makes them hard to replicate. For decades, biologics weren’t subject to competition from copycat generic medicines, even once patents and exclusivities had lapsed on originals. Scott Gottlieb
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. Nathan Myhrvold
The licensing business is about licensing the full portfolio of Qualcomm’s patents. Some of them involve the chip. Some of them don’t involve the chip. In fact, the vast majority of them don’t involve the chip. Steve Mollenkopf
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. Stephen Hawking
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
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn’t give a damn about patents – they copied each other willy-nilly. Nathan Myhrvold
Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals. Edgardo Osorio
People think that Celera’s trying to patent the whole human genome because it’s been used as – I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one. Craig Venter
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
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
As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translates them into action. Matthew Whitaker
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. James Fallows
Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We have to decide where to place our bets. We can’t just cover everything we do. Lonnie Johnson
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
Everything that can be associated to ideas, inventions, copyrights, and patents is part of the IP world – at least, that’s my definition. That all starts with people. Education is key. Jean-Philippe Courtois
You can’t patent a move. It’s challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does… I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven’t seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don’t think that way, and instead they steal somebody’s move as soon as they’ve gone on to the next company. Rob Van Dam
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 have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation – from ‘Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!’ to ‘Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.’ Nia Vardalos
We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else. Antonio Perez
In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them. Eric Maskin
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
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
Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of the existing patent war. Vitalik Buterin
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