Ted Waitt Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn't travel anyway but sideways and backwards.

Taking out a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit.

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

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

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

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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.

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

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

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.

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.

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

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

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

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.