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>>510884941 (also this)
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I know that patents are only 25 years. Drug companies have a dozen different ways to "extend" a drug patent, but eventually even those moves run out.

I thought software was more like a patent. Copyright (and Trademark) would be the name of the product, which is really long and/or forever, but the actual code of the product is like a machine or pharmaceutical. (I think.)