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		greggman on Oct 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sal... Has anyone read the unified search patent enough to understand what's unique about it? For example, Windows NT4 shipped with unified search. It even had a plugin architecture so you could help it index new file formats. It was not enabled by default. You had to go turn it on.

WildUtah on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

Yes, they have. There is nothing unique about it.

But that's the case with most patent grants these days and usually is no bar to prosecution.

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