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What have our nation's greatest minds thought about patents?
Thomas Jefferson: "The issue of patents for new discoveries has given a spring to invention beyond my conception."
Abraham Lincoln: "The Patent System added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius."
President Dwight Eisenhower: "This system has for years encouraged the imaginative to dream and to experiment in garages and sheds, in great universities and corporate laboratories. Innovations and discoveries have created new industries, giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well-being of all."
Mark Twain: "A country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn't travel anyway but sideways or backwards."
Thomas Alva Edison: "Verily a pioneer has to get his justice in the same way that a florist gets bouquets from century plants."
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter: "The average person reaps the benefits of this form of property because the inventor has created it under a patent system that rewards the inventor ONLY if society DOES derive benefit from it."
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