Patents Quotations

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

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.

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

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

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

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.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

We have a responsibility to protect our patents and to seek a fair return for the many years and tremendous investment that we have made in developing Burst technology and patents.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

We were confident from the outset of these proceedings that the inventions embodied in these patents would be found to be patentable. The question of the validity of these patents has now been put to rest.

Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.

Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.

Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.

Phil comes to AMD with a proven track record of success. His numerous patents in system and processor design illustrate his ability to create truly innovative technologies, grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs. Further, Phil has the rare ability to rapidly integrate new technologies into high-value products, and then take those products to market quickly through disciplined execution. We're thrilled to have a technologist and business leader of his caliber join AMD.

If these designated groups build their next generation of healthcare and education standards on web services, electronic forms, and open document standards, and they do so within rules of maintaining compatibility and interoperability, then IBM will not assert any of our patents on implementers of these new healthcare and education standards.

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

Basically you're talking about business method patents and whether they're allowable. This whole area of what is suitable for monopoly protection is a fraught one. There's a lot of stuff that shouldn't be protected.

If a large company were to obtain thousands of software patents every year, the barrier to entry of new software companies could become insurmountable.

What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the precision of our system ? we can make very precise maps and image location from that ? we also have a very long list of patents that we've acquired over the years that deal with efficient processing of that imagery and turning it into meaningful content.

What is a patent troll? According to some, a patent troll is a firm who licenses patents they do not themselves commercialize. Yet, many of the large firms who are most critical of the practice do it themselves.

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

I agree it's a definitive risk and I can attest to the intellectual prowess. With respect to protecting IP, that's a hard problem. We've had people come here, learn things, and take that back with them. One thing that says, very simplistically, is that you need to patent your ideas and enforce the patents that are part of your industry or company. Beyond that, one mechanism would be to look for partnering firms in China, as opposed to just putting up barriers. In some ways you look at the barriers as almost trade policies back early in the twentieth century. Perhaps we need to think of something a bit different there.

Groundbreaking patents like these take a long time to be reviewed. This was also during the height of the bio-tech era, so there was a lot of activity to review.

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

Our case against RIM is based on similar technology law and patents as the case we have just won in federal court against Seven Networks.

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Our policy is to allow others to license our patents so they can use our innovative methods in their products.

Our patents are very broad and very deep, and we have the only patents that anybody has that are issued in this space. What we think we're building for, ensuring for and scaling for, is for Pay By Touch to be the method that people use for biometrics, for payments or loyalty transaction.

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Standards that have patents in them are going to be very difficult and one of the big areas in the future that are going to cause problems for open source.

You can get patents on games, and what's the end result of a game? ... Laughter, tears, emotions--the same thing as a movie.

We hope that there are tens and hundreds more companies that will pledge patents to open source in the future.

We're delighted to see CA, one of the world's top software producers, take a leadership position on the critical issue of software patents to encourage the growth of the patent commons on behalf of the users and developers of open-source software.

We are trying to foster innovation in areas we believe should be open, including system-management tools, ... By offering our intellectual property, developers can use it without fear of infringing on the patents for those tools.

We review these patents for validity and of course there's a lot of incentives on the other side to press the patent to the bursting point,

While we prefer to resolve issues outside of the courtroom, we believe we have a strong patent position, including patents that issued in the past four years that must be defended appropriately.

We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms,

We anticipate Amgen to serve Roche an official court summons towards 3/06 timeframe upon which Roche will respond and the patent litigation suit will be in process. Ultimately, we continue to believe that Amgen will successfully defend its erythropoietin patents and that CERA will be found to have infringed.

We are doing our best to prove that we aren't infringing on their patents but that they are infringing our patents. As of today, we cannot predict the outcome.

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.

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

We are not claiming to have invented voice over packet technology, but we do have patents that have facilitated the use of this technology, and we will take appropriate action to protect the use of these patents.

There are patents issued all of the time that don't have any market value. They're good pieces of paper and good concepts, and even some are ideas that never should have seen the light of day. But the hardest thing isn't necessarily the creation of the technology; it's building a business around it.

The project is designed to increase the utility and value of patent pledges and promises in the past year by providing a central repository where intellectual property can be held for the benefit of all. Our goal is to make it easier for developers and industry to take advantage of the good works of vendors, individuals, and organizations who may wish to pledge patents and intellectual property in support of the community.

What it does signify is the growing issues over intellectual property and patents within the IT industry, and it raises some important questions around what it is right to patent.

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

We own five patents on the (popularity) technology, no one else can do it.

We will fight in the courts, ... We will argue very strongly that unless a generic manufacturer has discovered its own way that is free of our patents of formulating the product, that they're in breach of our patents. We think we have a good chance of winning.

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

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

This result underscores the validity of these patents but also the importance of allowing third parties to request re-examination.

We seek trademarks and patents to protect the development and use of brand names, product formulas and various operational technology.

We wanted to address patents that were foundational to many other inventions.

The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.

There is some concern over drugs coming off of patents and the expense of those drugs, and in some cases, such as with Pfizer and Merck, the efficacy issues, ... But we still can't get away from the fact that we're looking at an aging population and drugs are an integral part of keeping us going as long as we possibly can.

There could be many reasons that AT&T is not part of the program, maybe they didn't want to be included. We, as a company, don't make any assurances that all essential patents are included.

We have 300 patents now. We had to invent a lot of stuff to make it work.

Today's ruling does nothing that affects the validity or infringement of the patents in suit. By admitting to the infringement in their Supreme Court petition, eBay abandoned any pretense of innocence.

We are very pleased to reach a favorable settlement with Digital Persona regarding our patent rights. This settlement demonstrates the relevance of our intellectual property portfolio to the challenges faced everywhere today to secure computer networks against intrusion and loss. We believe that our patents and intellectual property are valuable assets, and we will continue to vigorously protect our rights.

We have essential GSM patents for which Nokia is not licensed, and we are disappointed that this has resulted in litigation,

Fiscal 2005 saw Absolute achieve significant milestones toward establishing our company as the standard for Computer Theft Recovery and Secure Asset Tracking. We reached an agreement with IBM/Lenovo to embed our software in the BIOS of all new ThinkPad laptops, we began enforcing our intellectual property resulting in several competitors choosing to either license our patents or resell our software, we announced an agreement with LoJack to brand our consumer offering under the well-known LoJack name, and we continued to expand our sales and marketing relationships with key OEMs.

There was a great land grab for fullerene patents as a wonder material, but when the costs remained high, it's not surprising no one pursued them.

Add on the fact that the Patent Office has rejected all the patents at issue and it's a pretty compelling case.

This is as good as it gets for Pfizer. They won a victory on both patents -- well beyond our expectations.

This agreement builds on Bristol-Myers' long-standing commitment to the global fight against AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been especially devastating, we've taken a broad-based approach to addressing the AIDS crisis, including providing our AIDS medicines at no profit prices and committing to ensure our patents do not prevent inexpensive treatment in the region.

Third Wave is well versed in the HCV patent landscape and has taken great care to understand and respect all the major patents in the field, including those held by Innogenetics. Innogenetics' suit lacks a basic understanding of the uniqueness of Third Wave's Invader chemistry and how it is configured in our HCV analyte-specific reagents. It appears that Innogenetics filed suit against Third Wave without first understanding how our product is designed.

This is a big case because intellectual property is growing in importance for business. If the Supreme Court accepts the lower court's decision, it will make it difficult for companies to enforce their patents and raise worries that they will be liable on antitrust grounds.

They touted their ability to turn inventors' ideas into profitable products. But fewer than 1 percent of the customers who invested in their services got royalties from their patents that amounted to more than they paid the promoters.

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.

A lot of the blockbuster products will lose their patents soon, so the companies are milking them for what it is worth. Of course everybody would rather have a young pipeline, but that is easier said than done.

As we expected, 2006 is proving to be a pivotal year for the Free Software Movement. With the release of the GPLv3, we have brought to focus the debate on the threats posed by Digital Restrictions Management, Software Patents and Treacherous Computing. Our community's efforts in the months ahead will help set the tone in the battle for computer users' freedom.

As we have said before, we believe that our patents are among our most privileged assets, and we intend to take action to protect them when we believe they are being infringed upon.

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if they feel they're not going to win. The system is broken.

These patents are ... guaranteed to go in the garbage. At the end of the day, our position is real simple: Let the system work.

These patents are . . . guaranteed to go in the garbage.

In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent issues because they can make or break a company.

If making these patents available in a single library accelerates the use of open source software and spurs innovation... separate and distinct from that is the whole patent reform issue.