The last I heard a patent expires after 20 years.
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From Mark Iverson:
FYI,
The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind
Robert D. Laughlin, Reviewed by Edward Gerjuoy
Basic Books, New York, 2008. $25.95 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-00507-9
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The provocative premise of this short book is that even as we appear
to be awash in information, governments and industry are restricting
access to knowledge by broadening the concept of intellectual property
to include things as diverse as gene sequences and sales techniques .
According to Laughlin, the right to learn is now aggressively opposed
by intellectual property advocates, who want ideas elevated to the
status of land, cars, and other physical assets so the their
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