Talk:Term of patent
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[1] contains information about US patent terms historically. --Jurisnipper 16:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Why?
[edit]The article does not cover why patents have a term and how that term is selected — 20 years arguably made a lot more sense when the rate of technological change was slower than it is today. -- samj inout 17:27, 7 November 2011 (UTC)