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Re:The patent on SIFT expired yesterday by vortico on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:21AM (#22525533)
Google Patent's interface is dumb. This means "Today (on 2020-03-09), the patent application is not in a state of pending to be filed." The fact they put this in the Events section is horrible UI. It's not an event, it's a current status as of the date the webpage was loaded. And it does mean that the patent is expired or not, it's a boolean specifying that the patent is filed (active) or pending filing. A better UI would be the text "Filed: yes" somewhere.

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