Patents Quotes
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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.
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Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
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No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
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Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors.
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As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one program can incorporate the state of the art in user-interface design without sinking into a quagmire of unending royalty payments and legal battles.
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
