Intellectual Property Quotes

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings

“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard

“A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining.”
― Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century

“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”
― Boris Johnson

“Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author that allows that person some control over how it is replicated and used.
In other words, the claim that lies beneath the notion of intellectual property is similar or identical to the one that underpins notions of privacy. It seems to me that the two are inseparable, because they are fundamentally aspects of the same issue, the need we have to be able to do something by convention that is impossible by force: the need to ringfence certain information. I believe that the most important unexamined notion - for policymakers and agitators both - in these debates is that they are one: you can't persuade people on the one hand to abandon intellectual property (a decision which, incidentally, would mean an even more massive upheaval in the way the world runs than we've seen so far since 1990) and hope to keep them interested in privacy. You can't trash privacy and hope to retain a sense of respect for IP.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Intellectual Property Rights can be used at scale as a method of achieving collective goals.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Strategic use of intellectual property can give a business several years of protected competitive advantage.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Knowledge is very vital in life`s transformation and transition”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“When we think about business from this perspective: creating value for other peoples lives, solving problems for other people, meeting other peoples needs, fulfilling other peoples desires and receiving payment for those good things that we're doing - the ideas and the creativity flow more fluidly.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Haiku:
Guard your intellect
Like the most valuable
property you own.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Haiku:
Be very careful
Who you share your ideas with
Some may run with it.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Haiku:
Some will steal your thoughts
Right out of your mouth as you
Speak them in private.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Haiku:
The new hustle is
Idea theft because some
Can't think on their own.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“When all is lost, IP can come to your rescue.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“The question today is not whether you have IP; it is whether you know how to use your IP”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Thank God! We IP attorneys no longer need to explain what we actually do.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Courts must not grant Exparte Orders in a hurry under the assumption that all IP owners are genuine.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Startups must clear IP risks before launching products as one bad order can kill their business.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Using my music may seem fair to you, but note that music composers have never been dealt a fair card.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“One must remember that digital content is not equal to accessible content.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“When will you stop adding matter to patentable subject matter?”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Subject matter exclusions may seem arbitrary, but each of them has a story behind their inclusion.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Novelty in patent law is mathematical, but only to a discerning mind.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Assessing Inventive Step to determine patentability is subjective, but it has to be viewed objectively.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Requirement of written description in a patent specification should not be read as full description of every aspect of the invention.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Living in a world which is said to have no borders when it comes to business and trade, what is the solution for the risk of trademark squatting? How can one curb or better obliterate the agony of trademark squatting or destroy this hidden monster? We need to discourage trademark squatting and not just prevent or implement solutions as a victim or for the victim. At a macro level who else besides WIPO can lead? A strategic move is a key. WIPO should come up with stringent general regulations on TM squatting that would help curb trademark squatting. But again, the proposed convention clauses must reflect rational clauses that can be plausibly and effectively implemented by member countries.It largely depends also upon legal counsels with eagle eye vision who are equipped with the distinguished skill to foresee, and astutely thwart such conflicts in one’s expertise and support the organization we are attached to or client as the case may be. Drafting effective internal policies on trademark squatting would certainly prove to be an effective mechanism to thwart as well as in the long-run obliterate trademark squatting.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, Legal Counsel & Author

“Beware of the dogs in the corporate woods waiting to fleece you. Don't let them take ownership of what is rightfully yours.”
― Charles D. McCarrick, Lessons My Brothers Taught Me: How to Transform Your Personal Qualities Into A Successful Business