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kevinpet on May 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Do you support software patents?

If google really has a patent on that home page, I'd suspect it is a design patent, which is an entirely different kind of beast. It's more like trademark rights.

ry0ohki on May 16, 2011 [–]

I don't know the differences but here is the Patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

nitrogen on May 16, 2011 | [–]

The patent number starting with a D indicates a design patent.

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