Re: [Lame-dev] Res: Res: Commercial application licensing questions

[Gabriel B. <bou...@mp...>]

Robert Hegemann a écrit :

> IIRC patents in the USA, filed before June '95, expire after 17 years.
> That would mean, any patent filed before June '91 has already expired
> in USA.

Patents holders are clever than that! Within USA, as an example, it was 
(before 95) 17 years after patent grant, not after filling. That is why 
there are some patents wich are a "modification of application xxxx 
which is a modification of application xxx" and so on...


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