“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.... The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.”

— Bill Gates
Original source
Challenges and Strategy" (16 May 1991). Note that this quotation has been paired with a misattributed quotation. ↗

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