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The key is that Korean manufacturers are becoming much more stronger than five, ten years ago. Some of the Japanese companies believe that they were the leaders in the past and they should have some room to collect royalty or some benefits (from their patents).

Takeo Miyamoto

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

Franz Humer

As we have said before, we believe that our patents are among our most privileged assets, and we intend to take action to protect them when we believe they are being infringed upon.

Abe Reichental

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

Henry Bunsow

We cannot allow other companies to copy our products and infringe our patents.

Gary Cohen

In fact, there is a 60% chance that one or more of the patents will be reaffirmed.

Ronald Riley

There could be many reasons that AT&T is not part of the program, maybe they didn't want to be included. We, as a company, don't make any assurances that all essential patents are included.

Larry Horn

We are not claiming to have invented voice over packet technology, but we do have patents that have facilitated the use of this technology, and we will take appropriate action to protect the use of these patents.

Debra Peterson

Even at the universities that have tens of millions of dollars in licensing income, there tend to be a few (patents) that are blockbusters that make the effort worthwhile.

Theresa Walker

We were confident from the outset of these proceedings that the inventions embodied in these patents would be found to be patentable. The question of the validity of these patents has now been put to rest.

Neil Cohen

In my opinion, the patents are worthless, IT managers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of patents. They can safely ignore them.

Vernon Keenan

Our policy is to allow others to license our patents so they can use our innovative methods in their products.

David Kaefer

How can the industry come up with standards if companies don't reveal their patents in committee?

Kevin Krewell

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

These patents are . . . guaranteed to go in the garbage.

James Balsillie

They are more concept type of patents. It is a very blue sky kind of thing.

Robert Langer

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

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

Given the size of the Linux code, it?s almost certain that it will violate a number of patents, and some of them, such as the ones on the FAT file system, may indeed be held by Microsoft.

Florian Mueller

If a large company were to obtain thousands of software patents every year, the barrier to entry of new software companies could become insurmountable.

Tom Demarco

We have essential GSM patents for which Nokia is not licensed, and we are disappointed that this has resulted in litigation.

Louis Lupin

These new patents expand the entire body of intellectual property surrounding the company's devices and technology.

John Hinson

Some end up with patents.

Jaymie Pedigo

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

I bust patents for a living.

Greg Aharonian

We are not going to be an independent product company; we are not going to develop our own end-product sales channel. We don't develop IP or apply for patents.

Dave Purvis

The process isn't over. The fat lady hasn't sung for all of (the patents).

Brigid Quinn

Our patents are around the delivery of services.

Chuck White

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

Richard Stallman

We are looking forward to his participation as we continue our efforts to protect and commercialize our valuable intellectual property and patents.

David Pohl

We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms.

Steve Altman

These patents are going away.

James Balsillie

We have 300 patents now. We had to invent a lot of stuff to make it work.

Chet Huber

If these designated groups build their next generation of healthcare and education standards on web services, electronic forms, and open document standards, and they do so within rules of maintaining compatibility and interoperability, then IBM will not assert any of our patents on implementers of these new healthcare and education standards.

Bob Sutor

It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if they feel they're not going to win. The system is broken.

Gbola Amusa

I am personally very proud of the contribution that I made. I know in the grand scheme of things, it is a small contribution, but in 2005, I was granted 10 patents.

Shell Simpson

Now that we have that victory, we're more convinced of the validity of our patents.

Daniel Méndez

There are countless patents taken out all the time.

Bill Plummer

We are doing our best to prove that we aren't infringing on their patents but that they are infringing our patents. As of today, we cannot predict the outcome.

O.c. Kwon

It would seem that maybe it's going to be more difficult for the generic providers to, in a general way, overcome some of the patents.

Bill Fries

Patents can shut these systems down. It really does tinker with the balance of power when it comes to injunctions.

Stephen Maebius

Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.

Georg Greve

Standards that have patents in them are going to be very difficult and one of the big areas in the future that are going to cause problems for open source.

Greg Stein

There's a lot of concern about software patents. There's a huge amount of source code out there, but it's not in a usable form that examiners can access.

John Doll

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

In the UK we don't believe there's the political will to have an EU-wide system of patents.

Chris Parker

Our case against RIM is based on similar technology law and patents as the case we have just won in federal court against Seven Networks.

Brian Bogosian