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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by sbierwagen on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:34AM (#25819215)
>the cost to renew a patent

Why do you think patents can be renewed?

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Re:E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper by extropy on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:40AM (#25819596)
GP probably meant maintenance fees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_fee_(patent)

Would be nice to see increasing annual maintenance fee. 1K for first year 3K for second, 10K for third and so on. After 6 years or so you either make/pay millions of give it up.

Should drastically reduce the amount of junk patents. It it's not worth at least a few million not worth applying.

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