Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> He's confusing IP and "patent". IP is more like trademark.
> 
> Um, no. You're confusing "IP" with copyright.
> 
Oh, give me a break. As used in most cases the two terms are 
interchangeable. Yes, you can, reasonably, extend the term to include 
both "products" and "patents", but that just means you have to them 
break the term up into two separate categories when talking about what 
the law says, since the same laws don't apply to both of them. In 
general, copyright is covered by near perpetual ownership. Patents.. do 
eventually run out, even if they have reached the point where they are 
sometimes over extended (or just shouldn't have been issued in the first 
place).

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