#patent

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#brought #had #i #less #long

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely

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 #effectiveness #flame #improve #interest

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 #bush #cell #cell research #first

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#am #being #conclusion #dealt #disease

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 #came #eventually #everything #had

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#become #children #context #effects #games

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. ↗

— Doug Ose

#broadcast #community #contemporary #currently #depict

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

#developed #even #feel #get #good