Thread: Innovation or e-waste? Apple rumored to ditch headphone jack
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Old 02-11-2016, 01:42 PM   #250
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Patents run out after some time. If the company had the patent in the 60ties, it should have been free around 90 I think.
Did no one pick up the patent? Or look into it (AFAIK, patents aren't top-secret)?

I'm quite sure patents are public. So if those involved knew they were "suppressed", why not tell more people about it, or snatch the technology once it's free?
Precisely - patents are public; they can't be used to suppress something or keep it secret. Precisely the opposite, in fact.
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