Patentability Quotes

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

America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

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

Patents should be for technological innovations. So a program for a new machine tool should be patentable but a non-technological innovation, such as grammar-checking software for a word-processor, should not be.

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.

Taking out a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit.

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.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

Even if every gene in the human body were cloned it would be impossible to reconstitute a human being …. To find a substance freely occurring in nature is mere discovery, and is therefore unpatentable. However, if a substance has first to be isolated from its surroundings and a process for obtaining it is developed, that process is patentable