No, not as in the sense of the title to this blog, but in the sense that if someone patents a blue telephone you cannot then gain a further patent for a red one.

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On Tuesday, the blue-chip index eked out a gain of three points, or less than 0.1%, despite declines in the broader market.

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Yet increasingly, it appears that red states in the interior and the south may actually have more to gain from liberalized immigration than many blue state bastions.

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So popular, in fact, that the market's red chip index has rocketed over 80% since hitting bottom in mid-January, compared to the blue-chip Hang Seng Index's 40% gain over the same period.

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One of these proposals is the development of a global programme aimed at greater protection and restoration of vital ocean and coastal habitats, and of a global blue carbon market as a means of creating direct economic gain through habitat protection.

UNESCO: Blue carbon: a tool to mitigate climate change and preserve key marine and coastal ecosystems | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

He faced a divided party base and had to work to gain support from black voters who backed state Rep. Dan Blue in the Democratic primary.

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The blue-chip Dow is building on a 788-point surge last week, its biggest weekly percentage gain since mid-July 2009, after central banks infused the global financial system with cheap dollar loans.

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