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Patents are property which is automatically taken by eminent domain when the patent term expires.
by wtbob 13y ago
Patents are property which is automatically taken by eminent domain when the patent term expires.
- maxerickson 13y agoThe legal protection is rescinded, not taken. (People have some sort of natural right to ideas that they never share, beyond that it's all protection granted by society. I guess it's a minor distinction.)
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoPatents are time-limited, government granted monopolies. Why confuse things with complicated and (often intentionally) misleading metaphors about property?