Albert Einstein Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

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

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

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.

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

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

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

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

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

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

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

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

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

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

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.