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Google Patents Its Home Page

Posted by timothy on from the to-advance-useful-arts-and-sciences dept.

theodp writes "A week after new USPTO Director David Kappos pooh-poohed the idea that a lower patent allowance rate equals higher quality, Google was granted a patent on its Home Page. Subject to how the design patent is enforced, Google now owns the idea of having a giant search box in the middle of the page, with two big buttons underneath and several small links nearby. And you doubted Google's commitment to patent reform, didn't you?"

3 of 390 comments (clear)

  1. ma8e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    maintained that too OS don't 7ear the

  2. Re:Evil. by ByOhTek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Completely OT (mods, have fun!!), but I was looking at your sig, and I was bothered about it for some reason... It took me a second to place it.

    Who the hell can imagine the state even fractionally sacred without suffering an aneurysm?

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  3. Re:Evil. by Quothz · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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