intellectual-property

You can derive value from the Indian patent system, provided you know how it works. Stop cribbing about how it is not like another country__ system, and start thinking about how you can gain business value

Patents stand for you when everything else is lost

Patent Validity is a figment of legal interpretation, it can be contested, reversed and cancelled any time before expiry

The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author__ basic human right

Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent

Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far

The strength of a patent doesn__ come from its claims, it comes from the invention

Copyrights do not and cannot trump publicity rights, they are mutually exclusive

To take a stand on IP, India needs to have a stand first.

Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent

There is a Pirate in every one of us

Patents are not forever, but inventions are

We love patents, but not unconditionally;We believe in patents, but not mindlessly;We value patents, but not at the cost of our core values; andWe are serious about patents, but saving life always comes first

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.

Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple__ $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I__ going to destroy Android, because it__ a stolen product. I__ willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google__ products__ndroid, Google Docs__re shit. [Steve Jobs]