Top Patent Quotes
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
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
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
William O. Douglas
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
Miguel de Icaza
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza
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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 
62% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
William O. Douglas
55% of people like this quote
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
Miguel de Icaza
52% of people like this quote
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza
51% of people like this quote
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron
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In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
James Nasmyth
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This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
Lawrence Lessig
46% of people like this quote