Patent Infringement Insurance

Famous quotes containing the words patent, infringement and/or insurance:

    “The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
    —William Pitt, The Younger (1759–1806)

    “For there can be no whiter whiteness than this one:
    An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)