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• bort@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  patents expire. so nestle shoudln’t be able to “patenting human milk proteins for decades”

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Patents can be renewed, to my knowledge, and “for decades” as in “since the 90s”.

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    • 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?

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    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Patents can’t be renewed. After expiring, they become public domain.

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  • 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

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• bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe there is an Oxford comma? I understood what you meant

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