Carl Shapiro Quotations

We have a patent system that is out of balance and in some respects is impeding innovation and economic growth.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.

The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks…

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

My guiding principle is that the remedy should seek to 'restore competition' in the market for PC operating systems, ... What does it mean though, to 'restore competition' to a market that was monopolized prior to the illegal acts? The short answer is that the remedy should lower entry barriers and thus offset the harm to competition caused by Microsoft's conduct which raised those barriers... An effective remedy must be forward-looking and not merely focus on the particular products or technologies that posed a threat five years ago.

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

These anti-competitive settlements in the pharmaceutical industry are a major anti-trust problem. These settlements are thwarting competition and depriving consumers of the benefits of low-cost generic drugs.

This is pretty much everything that the plaintiff had been looking for. This points to a strong remedy and not a slap on the wrist, though there are other strong remedies besides breakup.

That's outside of the principals I explain in my direct testimony,

The BlackBerry is the perfect example of what's wrong with our patent system, but it is certainly not the only one.