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Patents are property which is automatically taken by eminent domain when the patent term expires.


The legal protection is rescinded, not taken.

(People have some sort of natural right to ideas that they never share, beyond that it's all protection granted by society. I guess it's a minor distinction.)


Patents are time-limited, government granted monopolies. Why confuse things with complicated and (often intentionally) misleading metaphors about property?




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