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by jessriedel 2071 days ago
> The original has paid for the r&d,

As discussed in other comments, the "original" product from the author is in fact itself a copycat. Furthermore, for this product the author has mostly been using copyright and trademarks, not patents, suggesting that R&D was not their key input.

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Patents is the R, copyright the D in R&D.
The common use of the term "R&D" does not back you up on that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development