Patent Office Quotes

#1. There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. In the past 10 years, Czechs filed 1211 applications to the European Patent Office, while Austrians filed about 15,000, the Dutch 66,000 and the Germans 256,000,

Anonymous

#3. Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Scott Adams

#4. I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

Albert Einstein

#5. A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain

#6. What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?"
"Shit," the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.
"That wouldn't impress anyone at the patent office.

Lindsay Buroker

#7. Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office.
quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan

Winifred Gallagher

#8. Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill. - Wally

Scott Adams

#9. The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.

Charles Stross

#11. Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Debbi Fields

#12. A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

Dean Kamen

#13. Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Jay Inslee

#14. Ari looks fiercely resolute. It's the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

Siobhan Davis

#15. She couldn't imagine ever having sex with Kevin again. The very idea repulsed her.

Lucinda Rosenfeld

#16. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Elvis Presley

#17. The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.

Viet D. Dinh

#18. We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

Sophie Kinsella

#19. Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points.

John Corwin

#20. I scowled listening to my back cracking and popping.
Either i was getting old, Wade had fucked me out of alignment, or the stress of the past week had taken more of a toll than I had previously allowed myself to imagine.

Ethan Day

#21. Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. Free shackled rivers! ... The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

David Foreman

#23. Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

Graeme Murphy

#24. When I think thoughts that are false or unworthy, when I entertain desires that are in opposition to what God wants for my life, I damage my soul.

John Ortberg

#25. There is beauty within each one of us. It just takes the right person to spot it.

Faraaz Kazi