Patents Quotes - Page 3

• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple

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• The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

  Nassau William Senior

  Mind, Quality, Privilege

  Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.91

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• 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.

  Jay Inslee

  Creativity, Light, Flames

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• Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's. There is no royal road to success- no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed. . . . Rules and advice may greatly assist-and they undoubtedly do this-but the real work must be accomplished by the individual. He or she must carve out his or her own destiny.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Success, Real, Destiny

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• China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.

  Mitt Romney

  Technology, Design, Intellectual

  Source: genius.com

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• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  James Fallows

  Reform, Giants, Ongoing

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• It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

  Richard Lederer

  Writing, Practice, Confusing

  Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Army, Technology, Innovation

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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• An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

  Theodore Levitt

  Skills, Needs, Raw Materials

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.71, Harvard Business Press

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• Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

  June Goodfield

  Race, Example, Rats

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• The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.

  Laurance Labadie

  Government, Self, Health Education

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Ideas, Office

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Leadership, Heart, Soul

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• Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Law, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.191, Penguin

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• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  Vandana Shiva

  Use, Corporations, Plant

  "No Patents on Seeds, a Handbook for Activists: Why and How to Fight the Patent and Seed Act". Booklet, 2005.

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• Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Utah, Secret, Needs

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• A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.

  Samuel Crompton

  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

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• 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

  Believe, Cells, Government

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• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Believe, Expression, Order

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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• We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Doors, Feet

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

  King C. Gillette

  Successful, Principles, Razors

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• While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Father, Law, Creating

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• Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Dirty, Marijuana

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Rain, Sky

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