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Quote:The design of Google's search results page earned U.S. patent protection this week, bringing the total number of patents held by the search giant to some three dozen.

Design Patent No. 533,561, awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday, covers "the ornamental design for a graphical user interface" as shown in several screen shots of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's search results pages.

The screen shots depict lists of the company's search results, with blocks of news-related and sponsored advertising links at the top. A graphic of the word Google, spelled out with multiple o's corresponding to the number of pages of search results returned, is centered at the bottom of the page...

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