Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor

Re:Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor by Leherenn on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:26AM (#25542540)

Would it make sense to have the patent office choose the patent length between say 2 to 20 years?

Estimating the value seems pretty much impossible, but estimating a length seems more reasonable. Clever software trick, quick to invent, easy to capitalise -> 2 years. Ground breaking new drug/material with slow market deployment -> 20 years.

There's still some subjectivity involved (but that's already the case with the current patent system), but you could try to base it on some objective metrics.

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Re:Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor by iguy on Saturday December 26, 2020 @10:41AM (#25544047)

Or perhaps it could be a fixed duration per field, somehow, so that you know before filing what you will get.

It would be easy to discriminate between 20 years for drugs vs. 5 for anything software, but I guess it's tricky to decide whether something like e-paper should count as fast-moving consumer-facing tech or hard-won physics/chemistry knowledge.

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