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[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

No. The only case where you can lose "IP" (a deliberately misleading term that lumps together several completely unrelated legal constructs, none of which are property) is in the case of a trademark being diluted to the point that no reasonable person can be expected to know it's a trademark. Things like heroin, trampoline, escalator, dumpster, dry ice, etc. That's it. Copyrights and patents, which are different things from trademarks, aren't lost until they expire.

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