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We look forward to working closely with CA as well as IBM and the other leaders in this area as we develop a trusted vehicle and database for administering and encouraging donations to the burgeoning patent commons in which we all have a stake.

Stuart Cohen

This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support and encourage medical innovators, not undermine them.

Hank Mckinnell

There is a need to improve the competence of patent agencies and enforcement procedures in developing world countries, but the basis for granting a patent and the TRIPS agreement do not need reform.

Trevor Jones

There are tedious procedures to follow before granting one patent.

David Dougherty

Add on the fact that the Patent Office has rejected all the patents at issue and it's a pretty compelling case.

Henry Bunsow

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent.

Greg Ryan

EBay commends the Patent Office for its willingness to reexamine this patent and is impressed with the thorough analysis contained in this second office action.

Jay Monahan

I'm pleased that FSF is going to add patent defense to its new GPL 3. Many other open-source licenses have such provisions already.

Larry Rosen

I think patent trolls are abusing the system.

Lamar Smith

Patent commons project.

Open Source

I do believe that there's a patent quality problem.

Howard Berman

[Quoting Abraham Lincoln, who said the patent system] adds fuel interest to the fire of genius, ... the patent system must appropriately reward innovation and risk.

Dean Kamen

The RIM-NTP dispute has become a game of chicken. It's also almost a given that NTP will mightily contest the legitimacy of any workaround. And it will move forward to exhaust every avenue of appeal the court or the [U.S. Patent and Trademark Office] leave open.

Brownlee Thomas

The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent and make competitors sweat.

Marilyn Mccormick

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

We have seen a recovery in subscriber additions and business momentum since RIM settled the patent litigation.

Cfo Dennis Kavelman

We continue to believe the patent is invalid and not infringed, but we cannot comment any further as the post-trial phase of the court proceeding is continuing.

Charles Coleman

A patent suit will take second place to a criminal matter.

Mike Williams

We'll even have patent papers ready so students can register their invention, so no one else can copy their idea.

Dina Valentine

The license of our patent portfolio with AMD's demonstrated innovation in the microprocessor market is highly compelling.

Harold Hughes

We're confident in the validity of the patent and believe it will be upheld.

Phil Belt

We have filed a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement in the U.S., U.K., Germany and the Netherlands.

Aase Lindskog

It is our top pick. I like the lack of patent expirations...They have a portfolio of new products.

Chris Schott

The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.

Casey Alexander

We are rapidly becoming a land of hypochondriacs, from the ulcer-and-martini executives in the big city to the patent medicine patrons in the sulfur-and-molasses belt.

Vincent Askey

In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent issues because they can make or break a company.

Greg Aharonian

The U.S. Patent Office is currently reexamining those patents, and we fully expect the Patent Office to confirm the reach of our patents.

Steve Sanghi

We have a patent system that is out of balance and in some respects is impeding innovation and economic growth.

Carl Shapiro

Patent litigation has been amicably resolved and the parties have agreed to dismiss the patent claims.

Jennifer Smoter

HP has a long history of innovation in PC technology, and we will continue to protect our investment in our PC patent portfolio.

Joe Beyers

What's in front of the Supreme Court right now is whether injunctions in general are compulsory or discretionary in patent infringement cases where guilt has been established and litigated.

Michael Caputo

All that has happened is Apple's patent has received final rejection, and that is a non-event. This is really making a mountain out of a molehill.

Roger Cook

You weigh your risks. That is the difficulty with all patent litigation. How much is it going to cost to get out of it?

Frederick Michaud

I developed this thing probably 10 years ago out of frustration of forever having to take my truck box in and out. Then I applied for the patent a couple of years ago.

Matt Lake

We filed the lawsuit at the appropriate time. From top to bottom Blockbuster has willfully and deliberately copied our patent methods ...

Steve Swasey

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Henry Bunsow

There's a lot of practical interest and a lot of academic interest in the patent system. And I think the community is going to be extremely motivated to do (reviews).

Bob Sutor

When we have a new product, we apply for a patent before we produce it.

Stephen Huo

She's been chancellor at Stanford. I mean she's just got the patent resume of somebody that's got some serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon ...

Dave Lenihan

If the generic doesn't get out there then the pharmaceutical company (with the patent) obviously benefits.

Jeffrey Kraws

Today, the courts are being asked to apply outdated patent criteria to new technology, making decisions where there really are no clear guidelines.

Rich Koch

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Craig Mchugh

Frankly it's highly unlikely that I'm going to stay these proceedings ... I don't run (patent office) business and they don't run mine.

James Spencer

They were exact scale models. If they got approved, you could get a patent for it.

Joseph Shapiro

All that has happened is Apple's patent has received final rejection, and that is a non-event.

Roger Cook

MPEG LA and patent holders are just as eager to see this standard succeed as everyone else. We just need to make sure that licensees pay their fair share.

Larry Horn

There's nothing routine about this patent case.

Gordon Giffin

We get 40 to 50 first-generic submissions a year, and we make quick decisions and approvals on them, often on the same day the patent or exclusivity expires.

Gary Buehler

Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.

Tom Demarco

What we're seeing initially is a reduction in the number of cases allowed. Many of these will eventually get a patent, though.

John Love

Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source.

Michael Tiemann

This reexamination is concluded, but that doesn't mean this patent can't ever be challenged again.

Dan Ravicher

This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with the best of intentions.

George Gordon Byron

He basically has a patent on that type of performance. He's done a great job as a both a closer and set-up man for us before, so it was nice to see him pitch well as a starter, too.

Brendan Callahan

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

Ronald Riley

The key constraint is that the filing fees ($10,000 and above) are high, deterring small entrepreneurs from applying for a patent. In addition, there is not adequate legal expertise available to such small start-ups.

Sunil Mehta

The US Patent and Trademark Office has been somewhat embarrassed by how this thing transpired.

Kevin Burden

A lot of their big drugs are going to lose patent protection, without the introduction of new drugs that will offset that, ... buy.

Barbara Ryan

We have not found any convincing arguments of invalidity, including the recent claims, and as a result we are confident in the patent, and look forward to an efficient re-examination.

Richard Snyder

Nobody knows. NTP is saying there's no solution that will work without defying the patent. It's kind of a waiting game.

Alex Kogan

We view this as precedent setting. This is the first time we've been able to get a case on patent infringement heard before a jury.

Linda Ashmore

In the past, if I only licensed my bread-making patent to a miller if he also bought his wheat from my brother then I was liable to lose that patent. That provision was lost in the Competition Act of 2000.

Ross Anderson

The patent office is overwhelmed because they don't have enough staff.

Darlene Slaughter

It will speed this farce up a bit. SCO was saying that because of the patent counterclaims, they needed discovery, more depositions. SCO has no money to pay damages or royalties due to dropping sales figures, so it doesn't matter to IBM to drop them.

Pamela Jones

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Len Yaffe

[Don and Tom] seemed like an odd couple at first. Don was a patent lawyer and Tom was a complete nerd.

David Kaufman

This is not the first such patent to be granted, but it shows that patent examiners are being duped by false science.

Robert Park

Apple tried to claim invention, but this patent dispels that. We are going to look at all the alternatives that the patent provides. We can look at legal remedies.

Craig Mchugh

It's no big stretch to do it for a medicine, particularly in a case like this, where a patent owner cannot supply the stockpiles of medicines that the WHO says are necessary.

James Love

We are very proud to have received this patent. It is a solid endorsement of our on-going commitment to be the innovative leader in the news industry and set the gold standard for our industry.

Cathy Baron Tamraz

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Craig Mchugh

The BlackBerry is the perfect example of what's wrong with our patent system, but it is certainly not the only one.

Carl Shapiro

The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a temporary monopoly on that invention.

Josh Lerner

A patent commons allows IT industry to add value above the operating system.

Stacey Quandt

Timing can be everything, particularly in the patent area. By waiting, companies often lose their ability to protect their IP.

John Pratt

Aside from the mythology involved, one way to look at the troll situation is that you have 'bad patent trolls,' on the one hand, and 'bad patent thieves,' on the other.

Dale Carlson

We've got a need to acquire products in the near term with all our patent expirations.

Paul Fitzhenry

Potentially, you're looking at a company that has very little revenue growth for the next few years because of patent expirations.

Michael Krensavage

We've seen with many customers that once we get the patent license in place, many will come back and work with us [under a technology license], and we hope that's the case with AMD.

Sharon Holt

The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products don't infringe its patents. We have our own patents.

Richard Keller

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Dan Ravicher

It's clear that Digital has not been able to beat Intel in the marketplace, and now they're trying to do it through a patent suit. It's extremely difficult for Digital to win on something like this.

Eugene Glazer

Hundreds of patent infringement cases are pending against computer software and hardware manufacturers.

Emery Simon

For RIM, this comes at a horrible time with its patent case. Companies are already wondering about e-mail, and now the alternative is crystal clear.

Ellen Daley

The patent case was a whole bunch of noise. Right now, RIM is in danger of relegating itself to becoming a niche e-mail player.

Ellen Dailey

The patent case was a whole bunch of noise. Right now, R.I.M. is in danger of relegating itself to becoming a niche e-mail player.

Ellen Dailey