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Oracle asks Supremes to snub Google's Java API copyright protest – and have a nice cuppa tea, instead

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Re: Nuff said

Most patent applications are for "inventions" already in the public domain - that is why the patent offices carry out prior art searches. It is not unknown for patents to be granted on such public domain material, hence the mechanism for having them invalidated.

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