David L. Webster Quote

A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.


in his autobiography, as quoted by Peter Louis Galison, Bruce William Hevly (1992). Big science: the growth of large-scale research. Stanford University Press. p. 55. ISBN 0804718792.


A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.

A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.

A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.

A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.