If you can't monetize your product within extremely generous patent lifetime giving it more time won't change much.

Patents already do more to stifle innovation than to help them.

> Behringer actively harms my future ability to obtain new technologies because they kill those who produce them and produce nothing original or innovative

Okay, what company they actually killed by making a clone ? I haven't heard of single one.

I do agree that cloning products currently in production (best recent example being behringer swing) is below belt, but there is NOTHING wrong in resurrecting hardware current manufacturer stopped making, only people "losing" on it are people trying to sell used ones for ungodly amount of money