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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.
I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention
All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.
A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money.
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
Be Patient to become a Patent
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
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.
Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.
Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.
We should have more invention.
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
But a patent is not a hunting license. Is it not a reward for the search, but compensation for its successful conclusion
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.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
The people - could you patent the sun ?
I'm Julia Malone and nobody has the patent on me!
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.
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.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WHEN NO ONE IS GETTING RICH After
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.
If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.
Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Innovation is always a product of individual innovators, a rare and dynamic breed not always appealing to the millions who depend on their creativity for their own comfort, health, and security.
Startups do not need cost effective patent filings, they need a strong IP system to help them succeed.
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.
One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
Apple's products
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.
You have to explain the invention to customers - not once or twice but three or four times, with a different twist each time.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
Inventions and purely human institutions.
Inventions are smarter than their inventors
Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control.
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.
Ideas are the currency of innovation.
Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
Innovation is discovery at the intersection of what's desirable, viable, and feasible.
You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.
And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it's about can you get your idea to spread or not?
There is nothing called as cheap patents. Anything cheap is not worthwhile.
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
Innovations until now conceived by no one at all
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. ... The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.
Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ...
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.
We may say with some confidence that the most apparently beneficent products of science and industry should be held in suspicion if they are costly to consumers or bring power to governments or profits to corporations. There
Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.
We protect monopolies with copyright.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law.
One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.
Marketing is about innovation.