Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Alex Azar
Alex Azar

There's no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States.

Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok

Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

Antonio Perez
Antonio Perez

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

Craig Venter
Craig Venter

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

Craig Venter
Craig Venter

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Debbie Stabenow
Debbie Stabenow

You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.