Patent Exhaustion

Famous quotes containing the words patent and/or exhaustion:

“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)