Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Patents are a constitutionally protected right and they have been an engine of innovation and econom... JAMES MALACKOWSKI Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit. GEORG GREVE Patents protect ideas, but only if they are implementable. KALYAN C. KANKANALA Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you appl... ALEX TABARROK In my opinion, the patents are worthless, IT managers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of paten... VERNON KEENAN People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That'... CRAIG VENTER Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any pa... JOSH LERNER Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporatio... LINUS TORVALDS We are doing our best to prove that we aren't infringing on their patents but that they are infringi... O.C. KWON There could be many reasons that AT&T is not part of the program, maybe they didn't want to be inclu... LARRY HORN Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business?... PETER DIAMANDIS The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products d... RICHARD KELLER We will seek an order finding these patents unenforceable. DAN FURNISS The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ... CHARLES KOCH In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents alto... ERIC MASKIN Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM... EBEN MOGLEN We are looking forward to his participation as we continue our efforts to protect and commercialize ... DAVID POHL Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open sourc... LINUS TORVALDS Groundbreaking patents like these take a long time to be reviewed. This was also during the height o... TREY DAVIS There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thick... ANDREW GOWERS If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you... LARRY WALL Five years ago, there probably wasn't a tech CEO worrying about patents. But, as these people [troll... EMERY SIMON As we have said before, we believe that our patents are among our most privileged assets, and we int... ABE REICHENTAL The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the ne... HENRY BUNSOW The process isn't over. The fat lady hasn't sung for all of (the patents). BRIGID QUINN This result underscores the validity of these patents but also the importance of allowing third part... DAVID KAEFER I bust patents for a living. GREG AHARONIAN There are countless patents taken out all the time. BILL PLUMMER The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for p... ROBERT POZEN We have more than 150 patents pending and 16 patents issued related to our ISA247 technology. These ... DR. RANDALL YATSCOFF The competition is making them better. They don't like it. They would like to say, 'Hey, I'm the guy... ERIC PRICE We're pleased to have received these additional patents to our already extensive IP patent portfolio... FRED ANGELOPOULOS You can get patents on games, and what's the end result of a game? ... Laughter, tears, emotions--th... JAMES HALL Add on the fact that the Patent Office has rejected all the patents at issue and it's a pretty compe... HENRY BUNSOW Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT We have essential GSM patents for which Nokia is not licensed, and we are disappointed that this has... LOUIS LUPIN Patents are not forever, but inventions are KALYAN C. KANKANALA Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatt... RICHARD STALLMAN Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex e... KLAUS SCHWAB Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions ve... KALYAN C. KANKANALA We anticipate Amgen to serve Roche an official court summons towards 3/06 timeframe upon which Roche... JENNIFER CHAO We strongly believe that energy choice benefits New York consumers. New York residents are also bene... BADAR KHAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix. FLORIAN MUELLER Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge. ADAM COHEN Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of... CHARLES H. DUELL I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there insi... JACK HANDY These patents are . . . guaranteed to go in the garbage. JAMES BALSILLIE What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the prec... JAMIE RETTERATH But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve ... ROBERTSON DAVIES Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag - which represents a l... RICK MONDAY Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those thi... JOHN FRUSCIANTE It would seem that maybe it's going to be more difficult for the generic providers to, in a general ... BILL FRIES Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind. FRANZ HUMER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Our patents are around the delivery of services, CHUCK WHITE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvell... TERRY PRATCHETT As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they ... CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH Maybe that happens for the filmmakers, but I don't really feel that. I think they felt that before p... ZACH BRAFF First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea pat... LAURANCE LABADIE From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: drivi... JULIUS GENACHOWSKI Then also J has a particularly aggressive management (company) that started looking into the numbers... LOU BARLOW Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,... SARAH DESSEN You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence -Eli SARAH DESSEN It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like ... SARAH DESSEN …You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests... SARAH DESSEN The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation un... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Some end up with patents. JAYMIE PEDIGO These patents are going away. JAMES BALSILLIE Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and ... CHRYSTIA FREELAND From a policy perspective, whether such patents are good or not, that will have to be settled in the... AARON CHATTERJEE They were discharged into the channel, which ultimately goes to the harbor and ocean. FRANK MATELJIAN That one was like an insurance goal for the team. Once we got up 2-0, the whole game changed. We sta... KYLE CONRAD I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. ... LEE TREVINO Standards that have patents in them are going to be very difficult and one of the big areas in the f... GREG STEIN If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But ... JAMES DYSON Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which p... VITALIK BUTERIN They touted their ability to turn inventors' ideas into profitable products. But fewer than 1 percen... LYDIA PARNES I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with ... JACK DEE Any dealer who would sell on a Sunday would jeopardize their license by doing so. Consumers like the... TIM JACKSON Our policy is to allow others to license our patents so they can use our innovative methods in their... DAVID KAEFER He always calls himself the old guy. He says, 'All right guys, the old guy's in here, we might need ... CASEY RABACH (The) board would protect consumers' interests and would seek to boost investments and create compet... MURLI DEORA We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms, STEVE ALTMAN As we started to entertain more, and gain more status, the kitchen grew into not just a room that wo... BILLY ROSE Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ide... RICHARD STALLMAN I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living t... DONALD KNUTH We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of p... DON MCLEAN I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE There has been a decline in civic participation in general. This began in the 1970s for a variety of... LEE BERNSTEIN Guys like that are at a little disadvantage, playing against guys who have been under the gun their ... BOB GILDER He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the ... NICK HANAUER I think that music videos began to be approached by young filmmakers as a form where they could do s... RICHARD BROWN In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent ... GREG AHARONIAN There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL
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