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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
We should have more invention.
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.