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The paper deals with the vortex motion of an inviscid incompressible flow in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) described by the vorticity equation \[ \omega_t + u \cdot\nabla \omega = 0, \] where \(\omega(x,t)\), (\(x\in \mathbb{R}^2\), \(t>0\)), is the vorticity, \(u\) is the fluid velocity field. The author presents a new approach based on a reformulation of the vorticity equation as a non-local integral equation. It is proved that if the initial vorticity \(\omega_0\) is a \(C^\alpha (\Omega_0)\) non-constant patch, i.e., \(\omega_0 = \widetilde{\omega}_0 \chi_{\Omega_0}\), \(\widetilde \omega_0 \in C^\alpha\) and \(\partial\Omega_0\in C^{1+\alpha}\), then the weak solution \(\omega\) of the vorticity equation remains in the form \(\omega = \widetilde{\omega} \chi_{\Omega_t}\) for all \(t>0\).