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Last week was patent week, apparently, as both Facebook and Google were granted some pretty important patents. Facebook got a patent for its News Feed, certainly a useful one to own as a social network, and Google got a patent for location-based advertising, which could prove a very lucrative market in the coming years. <\/p>\n