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Interesting...

Are patents renewable?

I understand what you're saying about the technology used in
something like the MS-20 filter being far from state of the art today
but high-tech/low-tech it's still got a great unique sound.

Electro-Harmonix is a good example, they've probably got stuff built
more or less exactly as it was 20 years ago. So, there's nothing
stopping someone from creating a Big Muff Pi clone and selling that
even though EH is still selling them today - right? I'm sure you
can't use the Electro-Harmonix or the Big Muff Pi name - but other
than that?

I guess 17 years is plenty to milk the cow, though.