Patent Law Quotes

“The Supreme Court is composed of two groups known as the Infallible Five and the Furious Four. The first group writes those majority decisions on patent law that have brought patent lawyers to their present condition. The second groups writes the dissenting opinions, trying to hold to the law as it was laid down by the first groups the week before. The composition of each group shifts from decision to decision, so that no one justice is right all the time. They sort of pass the infallibility around to keep peace in the family." -- The Improbable Profession”
― Leonard Lockhard

“Patents lend credibility to your products.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Road Humps and Sidewalks

“Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Courts must not grant Exparte Orders in a hurry under the assumption that all IP owners are genuine.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Startups must clear IP risks before launching products as one bad order can kill their business.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Using my music may seem fair to you, but note that music composers have never been dealt a fair card.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“I have never understood why many Indian patent examiners treat attorneys as either rivals or inferiors.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“One must remember that digital content is not equal to accessible content.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“When will you stop adding matter to patentable subject matter?”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Subject matter exclusions may seem arbitrary, but each of them has a story behind their inclusion.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Novelty in patent law is mathematical, but only to a discerning mind.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Assessing Inventive Step to determine patentability is subjective, but it has to be viewed objectively.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Requirement of written description in a patent specification should not be read as full description of every aspect of the invention.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property