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I work in R&D where tens to hundreds of millions are spent on talent/materials/engineering to design new high tech materials for the world.

It’s strange that this much effort practically gets about 10-15 years of protection(or less depending on prosecution time with the patent office), while a drawing of a mouse or “moving-pictures” is protected for a century.

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Not using cost measured in dollars to equate the benefit of different things, but most studio films are at minimum tens of millions of dollars, with nine figures not being uncommon.

Of course, I’m just noting it’s interesting that a similar endeavor measured in dollars is protected for about the half the life of the inventors in R&D, and almost 10x that in the latter case.

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