"We can try to understand the nature of these inventions by looking at who was granted patents. The patent system, whi…"

"Between 1820 and 1845, only 19 percent of patentees in the United States had parents who were professionals or were f…"

"As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one pr…"

"Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potenti…"

"The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an arm…"

"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period w…"

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out pat…"

"In the field of industrial patents in particular we shall have seriously to examine whether the award of a monopoly p…"

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thin…"

"Before then [the adoption of the United States Constitution], any man might instantly use what another had invented; …"