Google App Engine: Query.GeoRegion.Rectangle Intersection - google-app-engine

Can anybody suggest an elegant, robust method for finding the intersection of two com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Query.GeoRegion.Rectangle objects? Current thinking is to re-implement java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D.intersect().

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