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by 4khilles 1518 days ago
Is this a case where 100% of a research effort is publicly funded or more like 10%? If it's closer to 10%, why would a company take the risk of putting up 90% of the capital when they can just wait for their competitor's IP to become public? Maybe the duration of a patent should depend on how much public funding was received.