Patents Quotes

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

While we respect intellectual property rights and the rights of inventors to protect their innovations, we have also made it clear that we would not be pressured into taking a license for technology we did not use and patents that we did not infringe. - Robert Kimball

While we may own a small number of patents, our commons is primarily an area where patents will be pledged... There'll be a very close working relationship [with Open Invention Network]. It's very compatible with what we are doing. - Stuart Cohen

Whatever comes out of the Patent Office can impact you. Some of the patents are very broad, some are narrow. - Bradley Wright

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. - Jamie Retterath

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. - Bola Rotibi

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. - Stephen Wren