Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

We believe that patents exist to reward the inventors of truly outstanding ideas, not to allow big businesses to stifle competition with an ever-growing tide of trivial, incomprehensible, overreaching patents. We will stop the abuse of patent law by raising the bar on how innovative an idea has to be before it can be patented, and by prohibiting patents on software, business methods, concepts and works of nature. We will require a working model to be provided to the patent office before a patent is granted and we will strictly enforce the current rule that patents are invalid if they are "obvious to someone skilled in the art".

Patents can be overridden to protect the public health.

All successful inventors know about depositions. They learn to live with them the way one learns to live with arthritis.

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

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

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

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.

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

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

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