Category: Interesting Facts about Patents
Patent Wars - Did Edison plot an assassination to steal an invention?
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was a French inventor who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera. He has…
Patent Quote - Thomas Jefferson
“Ingenuity should receive a liberal encouragement. Patentable subject matter shoud include anything under the sun that is made by man”
Patent Quote – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural…
Patent Quote of the Week - Jeremy Rifkin
“James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
Patent Quote - Tesla Vs. Marconi
“Marconi is a good fella. Leave him alone he’s doing good work. After all he is using 16 of my patents” – Nikola Tesla
Mark Twain was a huge fan of the patent system
Mark Twain was a huge fan of the patent system. He himself filed a patent for adjustable straps for bras. He once said, “A country…
Abraham Lincoln Loved the Patent System
Abraham Lincoln called the patent system one of the three greatest advances in human history along with the discovery of America and the printing press.
Interesting fact about patents - It is not confirmed who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent perished in a fire at the patent office
It is not confirmed who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent perished in a fire at the patent office.