Intellectual Property Invention Public Domain Public Use 
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Utility patents are for functional inventions. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. Namely, anything protected by a design patent will enter the public domain generally 15 years after the patent office issued the design patent.
43(B)log
AUGUST 12, 2022
The Macroeconomics of Intellectual Property Eric E Johnson Most of us think about microeconomics with L&E: supply and demand curve, allocating production/consumption. Payoffs: Facts as part of larger public domain that needs to grow and not shrink. Think about how facts can support the public interest.
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