Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it?

- Francis Collins

Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.

- George M. Church

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

- Gordon Gould

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

- Irwin M. Jacobs

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

- James Nasmyth

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

- Nathan Myhrvold

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

- William O. Douglas