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IMO the main issue with allowing patents to be of different lengths is that you are opening up a process to change the length of patents. You'll immediately see
by eikenberry 6y ago
IMO the main issue with allowing patents to be of different lengths is that you are opening up a process to change the length of patents. You'll immediately see corps pushing that their type of patents are special and need longer coverage.
There's little a corp loves more than rent seeking and so-called IP laws are all about rent seeking.
- jessriedel 6y agoYea, that's the sort of explanation I'm sympethetic to and tried to gesture at in my last sentence. The thing is, you can say this about any law, yet we wouldn't want to argue that laws can never account for differences in different industries.