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jberryhill

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43. There is no US patent issued in 1990 which is in force today

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:13 PM

Jul 2012

Patents used to have terms of 17 years. As a transitional measure to the current 20 years-from-filing term, patents issued prior to the last revision are entitled to the greater of the two terms.

Hence, any argument that anything patented in the mid 1990's is being "suppressed" will be thoroughly irrelevant within two or three years from now.

There simply is no way to use patents to permanently block the commercialization of anything.

And, as amusing as you may have found Borat, there are significant economies outside of the US.

(a minor exception are certain pharmaceutical patents which can be extended in view of regulatory delay to market)

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