Mac App Store says that Lion can be installed,but it is already installed

Hello,
today I opened the Mac App Store and I clicked the tab ''Purchases'' and I saw that in OS X Lion it was saying to install it. But the problem is that I already have Lion installed in my iMac(v10.7.3). Why is this happening, is it a bug or there is a problem with my iMac? Thank you in advance!

What you have purchased in the Mac App Store is the installer for OS Lion, not the OS itself. So you can still download the installer, it's just that you already have Lion.

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