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Not really, it's already the case with this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=mEwEAAAAEBAJ

which was invented by Frank Yellin, who is currently a Google employee.

Everyone seeing Sun as the "good guy in the patent war" needs to remember that the Oracle/Google lawsuit was made possible because Sun has always been one the of companies filing the most software patents.




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