Patent Quotes

• Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Pink
  • Leather
  • Patent

• Many in India fought against some of the ideas of changing our patent system. And we have signed the World Trade Organisation Treaty but still we have to safeguard ourselves because, many of the developed countries are, though they have signed the same WTO, but they are not practising it; anti-dumping measures they are adopting very liberally, as also tariff, non-tariff barriers. So we have to carefully argue within the WTO system our case.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • System
  • Changing
  • India

• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Killing
  • Bodies

• The Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing the patent.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Office
  • Patent
  • Trademark

• If you read Wall Street's reports, they don't talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don't talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto's intelligence and innovation.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Protect
  • Patent
  • Soya

• Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Morals
  • Public Theatre

• Inspired by the punched railway tickets of the time, an inventor by the name of Herman Hollerith devised a system of punched manila cards to store information, and a machine, which he called the Hollerith Machine, to count and sort them. Hollerith was awarded a patent in 1889, and the government adopted the Hollerith Machine for the 1890 census. No one had ever seen anything like it. Wrote one awestruck observer, “The apparatus works as unerringly as the mills of the Gods, but beats them hollow as to speed.” Another, however, reasoned that the invention was of limited use: “As no one will ever use it but governments, the inventor will not likely get very rich.” This prediction, which Hollerith clipped and saved, would not prove entirely correct. Hollerith’s firm merged with several others in 1911 to become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. A few years later it was renamed—to International Business Machines, or IBM.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Inventor
  • Herman Hollerith
  • Manila cards

• I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

  

  Elwood G. Norris
  • Help
  • My Life
  • Prototype

• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mistakes
  • Patent

• As the commercial confrontation between free software and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • War
  • Software
  • Confrontation

• Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.

  

  Elihu Thomson
  • Business
  • Selfish
  • Invention

• Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Sin
  • Invention
  • Patent