Jason Schultz Patent Quotations

A lot of patents back in the late 1990s and early 2000s were made when the patent office was still trying to figure out what to do.

The patent system serves an important public purpose in our economy. Keeping illegitimate patents out of that system helps up-and-coming artists and entrepreneurs succeed for all of us.

Our nation's education system already faces severe budget constraints and a shortage of resources. We shouldn't be diverting resources away from teaching to pay off bogus patent threats.

Let's say you get a patent on something like a pop-up window. Of course, you could, in theory, go after everyone on the Internet, but you don't. What you end up doing is picking off the weak members of the herd, companies that don't have the money to defend themselves or independent Web sites, or occasionally big companies that you think will not have very much backbone and will quickly settle.

These companies don't know what's going to be valuable, what will be the next big thing, so they try to patent absolutely everything.