Charles Duhigg Quotes

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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.

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

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

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.

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.

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.

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

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

The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

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

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

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.

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.

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

Taking out a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit.

There's no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States.

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

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.