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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bort@feddit.de 5 months agopatents expire. so nestle shoudln’t be able to “patenting human milk proteins for decades”
sukhmel@programming.dev 5 months ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Patents can be renewed, to my knowledge, and “for decades” as in “since the 90s”.
Quereller@lemmy.one 5 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 5 months ago
Patents can’t be renewed. After expiring, they become public domain.