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		solardev on Dec 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect You think that's weird, try drawing three circles that vaguely look like a mouse and building a multibillion century-long empire off it.

pclmulqdq on Dec 27, 2023 [–]

That's copyright. Copyrights are life plus 70 years. Patents cap out at 20.

The parent comment was wrong: a 1989 idea would basically not be under patent past about 2011.

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