Lori Greiner

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

American Inventor

Nathan Myhrvold

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

American Businessman

Sarah Lacy

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.

American Journalist

Barry Gardiner

Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters.

British Politician

Linus Torvalds

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.

Finnish Businessman

Stephen Hawking

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

English Physicist

Charles Duhigg

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

Adam Cohen

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Irwin M. Jacobs

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

Ted Waitt

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

A 'patent' gives someone sole permission to make, use, or sell an invention for a set time.

Exclusive Rights

Getting a patent involves a detailed and often lengthy process, usually requiring legal help.

Complex Process

A patent protects the inventor's work from being copied or used by others without consent.

Prevent Copying

When something is described as 'patent,' it stands out as being very clear and easy to notice.

Easily Noticed

 'Patent' often points to something negative that is clearly recognized, like a flaw or failure.

Negative Connotation

The adjective 'patent' is sometimes used figuratively to emphasize the obviousness of an intangible concept.

Not Always Literal

To patent an invention means to legally claim it as your own creation and protect it.

Legal Action

In many places, the first person to file a patent for an invention gets the rights, not the first inventor.

First to File

 Come back when you wish to be taken seriously! You know, he was brilliant. But he struggled within the world of formal academia. They didn't really know what to make of him. He was working in a patent office when he was making his breakthroughs, because he couldn't even get a teaching position.

Einstein's Escape from...

 And we're able to look out for the needs of newcomers. So for do-it-yourselfers, we provide free, very well-tested instructions so that anyone, anywhere around the world, can build one of these systems for free. And there's a patent pending on these systems as well that's held by the community.

A garden in my apartment...

 But skipping classes to spend more time in the lab and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father.

Einstein's miracle year...

 was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with. So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA

Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...

 he chose telescopes he never patented his design never tried to make money off of it but he dedicated himself to teaching everyone and anyone the methods and the joy of building their own spent the rest of his life standing on street corners traveling around the world and

How DIY science is...

 isn't he beautiful that's broken tusks they're just putting his ear over his eye protection from the Sun the sun's just started to come out that put a stick in the in the trunk just to keep the trunk patent so he can breathe properly it's very reassuring to

Baby Meets Wild Desert...

 the first time managed to make one of those devices fly they also had taken out numerous patents on essential parts of the airplane they were not the only ones that was common practice in the industry and those who helped patterns

Pool medical patents,...

 Why is that? Well, the patent office had been issuing these patents for more than 20 years. There were literally thousands of patents on human genes. The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo,

Should you be able to...

 and this technology cannot be uninvented; it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. It seems to me, therefore, patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate

Science can answer moral...

 which is an imprint of the very early universe. We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.