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Patents last 20 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent

The SNES came out in 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_S...

Every patent on the original SNES should have expired by 2010.



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