Martin Fleischmann Quotes

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.

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

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

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

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.

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

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

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.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

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

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

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

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.

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

I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

Taking out a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit.

Patents can be overridden to protect the public health.

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