#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