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Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler

Posted by Hemos on from the i-am-patenting-newspaper-delivery-as-well dept.

MikeyTheK writes "It appears that under the radar, the USPTO granted Morfik a patent for the "System and method for synthesizing object-oriented high-level code into browser-side javascript". Reading further, it appears that they have patented the compiling of high-level languages into AJAX apps. The high-level languages include "Ada, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Delphi, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, SmallTalk, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic.NET". It would appear that the application date is September, 2005."

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  1. Well, if this keeps people from making C into JS by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then maybe the patents aren't such a bad thing.

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  2. Don't even think it. by Seumas · · Score: 3, Funny

    I swear, I will set fire to the first bastard to reply to this article with "dur dur... I'm going to patent blank"!

    1. Re:Don't even think it. by Viceroy+Potatohead · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's silly. No-one can patent blank. It belongs to everybody!

    2. Re:Don't even think it. by rubycodez · · Score: 2, Funny

      that's you. are ya gonna do the "protesting Buddhist monk self immolation with a can of gasoline and match" trick? Need a light?

    3. Re:Don't even think it. by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why?
      Did you patent the "dur dur... I'm going to patent blank" line?

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    4. Re:Don't even think it. by Pichu0102 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't you worry about patents. Let me worry about blank.

  3. ya know by hansoloaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    April Fools Day is over.

  4. Re:Turing tarpit by W33B · · Score: 1, Funny

    time travel?

  5. April Fool's! by enharmonix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, haha, Hemos, you almost had me! OMG PONIES!!!1!! Very clever April Fool's joke! And for the USPTO to be in on it... Wow. Best one yet!

    ...wait a tic, it's April 2nd... WTF?

  6. Time to Modernize.... by truckaxle · · Score: 2, Funny

    The high-level languages include "Ada, C, C++, C#, COBOL, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Delphi, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, SmallTalk, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic.NET".


    I guess now I am forced to to port all of my FORTRAN AJAX apps over to Perl :)
  7. Re:Turing tarpit by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Funny

    time travel?

    Yes. Next question?
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  8. Re:My First Thought by The_Wilschon · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I patent "a method of preserving food by keeping it cold" . . . would anyone buy it?
    The USPTO would.
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