Talk:Term of patent

contains information about US patent terms historically. --Jurisnipper 16:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Why?
The article does not cover why patents have a term and how that term is selected — 20 years arguably made a lot more sense when the rate of technological change was slower than it is today. -- samj in out 17:27, 7 November 2011 (UTC)