Intellectual property

Software's the ultimate durable good, which of course in economics makes it a very, very competitive market.

— Intellectual property

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

— Intellectual property

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

— Intellectual property

Software licenses are perhaps the only product besides half-eaten food, underwear and toothbrushes, which can't be resold.

— Intellectual property

The future of the nation depends in no small part on the efficiency of industry, and the efficiency of industry depends in no small part on the protection of intellectual property.

— Intellectual property

The purchasing public knows no more about trademark registrations than a man walking down the street in a strange city knows about legal title to the land and buildings he passes.

— Intellectual property

I believe in intellectual property. In my view, it's the foundation of world economies, and certainly the foundation upon which Sun Microsystems was built. Copyright, trademark, patent - I believe in them all. I also believe in innovation and competition - and that these beliefs are not mutually exclusive.

— Intellectual property

When you xerox a page of something the original doesn't disappear, and in the same way information isn't really lost when it's "stolen".

— Intellectual property

Whether two molecules are (dis)similar is in the eye of the beholder. Scientists look to fool the receptor - but you really want to fool the patent office.

— Intellectual property