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rit on July 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patent Troll sues Facebook, Amazon and others for ...

Probably because Google clearly has prior art.

The initial white papers about Google Filesystem were presented in 2003: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945450

tzs on July 15, 2012 [–]

One of the patents was filed in 2002, so 2003 is not early enough to be prior art.

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