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Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So patents are stopping the whole market competition thing, like what how capitalism is supposed to work and all that.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    There should be a ceiling with patents, where if you make 10x back of what it cost your r&d (or whatever 5x of your yearly revenue), the patent should just be considered expired no matter how much time passed.

    It should never be an infinite source of money.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Patents in the US only last 20 years on stuff like this, the problem is that lawyers are crafty. So they will patent the formula and then 20 years later the delivery method or something like that. Thus preventing generics for longer than they should be able to.

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