Seems like I messed up carrying over thoughts over language barrier.
Where was I unclear?
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GenEcon@lemm.ee 11 months agoSomething doesn’t add up here since you can’t patent anything for decades.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
bort@feddit.de 11 months ago
patents expire. so nestle shoudln’t be able to “patenting human milk proteins for decades”
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Patents can be renewed, to my knowledge, and “for decades” as in “since the 90s”.
Quereller@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Usually, patents have a lifetime for 20 years. Maybe you get an extension for 5 years. From were do you have the info that patents can be renewed?
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Patents can’t be renewed. After expiring, they become public domain.
sukhmel@programming.dev 11 months ago
For decades may as well be anything from 20 years up, afaik patents may live for 50 years so this seems to work fine
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Maybe there is an Oxford comma? I understood what you meant
jadero@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I read that as:
For decades, Nestle has been patenting milk proteins.
They’ve been doing it for a long time, not somehow getting extra-long patents.