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The case against patents is getting stronger as time goes on.

The rate of innovation constantly increases, and for patents to keep working as they should, the term should get shorter and shorter. Even if the system is made to be "fair" in this way, eventually the term will be made so short as to not be worth the effort of filing the patent. Maybe we are past that point already.



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