Patent Portfolio Quotes

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

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.

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 would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

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.

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

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

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

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.

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

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

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.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!