Patents Quotes

A settlement of this size reaffirms the fundamental value of patents in the marketplace and the need for companies to address these issues as part of their overall business plans. - Michael Stolarski

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. - Alexander Groschke

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. - Jason Schultz

A large part of the workaround is a potential ploy. You can also view it as a stalling strategy since it might kick off a whole new court case if NTP challenges whether the workaround violates any patents. - Todd Kort

[The delay - and the subsequent spread of lasers into many areas of technology - meant that the patents were much more valuable than if he had won initially. Even though Mr. Gould had signed away 80 percent of the proceeds in order to finance his court costs,] he made millions upon millions of dollars... Even at the 20 percent he was left with, he in his last years was a rich man. - Nick Taylor

[Our] patents have become fundamental to remote access of business data. We have worked very hard to develop these technologies and we want to be respected and ensure that we get the award other people should not take the fruits of our labor in their hands. - Daniel Mandez

(Intel) withdrew the how-to manual from three of its customers in a very selective, targeted fashion, simply to retaliate against these three companies because they refused to license their patents for rival technologies to Intel. - William Baer