Patents Quotes

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
James Dyson

Good, Money, Someone

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall

Bad, Idea, Software

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.
Larry Wall

Money, Individual, Pay

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Richard Stallman

Fighting, Danger, Software

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Richard Stallman

Dangerous, Ideas, Software

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.
Donald Knuth

Science, Living, Making

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.
Kevin J. Anderson

Government, Sure, Research

You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.
Debbie Stabenow

Reality, Trying, Country

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

Today, Writing, Problem

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.
Miguel de Icaza

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.
Melissa George

Business, Learn, Run

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?
Robert Pozen

Movies, American, Makes

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.
Antonio Perez

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