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Patents shouldn't be valid for more than 5 years imo. If you can't make a large enough profit from your idea in 5 years maybe it wasn't that good or original.
Instead of a flat five years across the board, length of time could be variable based on assets and political connectedness
....and thereby including potentially even more corruption in that process. Who decides what patent lives for how long?
I was channeling what Disney might suggest 😉
Woah. I misinterpreted your (in hindsight) obvious sarcasm