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pravda
10y ago
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>Patents expire after 25 years,
Twenty years. At least in the USA.
Carry on.
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aetherson
10y ago
And they start from time-of-approval (or filing?), not when you first put together a salable proof-of-concept, so for patents like which are not trivially possible to implement, you won't get all 20 years of it.
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