Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler

Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler 181

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:20AM 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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Well, if this keeps people from making C into JS (Score:5, Funny)

by istartedi ( 132515 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:22AM (#18573313) Journal

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

Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

by Seumas ( 6865 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:23AM (#18573323)

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

ya know (Score:3, Funny)

by hansoloaf ( 668609 ) writes: <hansoloaf@ya[ ].com ['hoo' in gap]> on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:23AM (#18573329)

April Fools Day is over.

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:4, Funny)

by Viceroy Potatohead ( 954845 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:34AM (#18573547) Homepage

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

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

by rubycodez ( 864176 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:34AM (#18573555)

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

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

by mwvdlee ( 775178 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @10:40AM (#18573629) Homepage

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

Re:Turing tarpit (Score:1, Funny)

by W33B ( 901545 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:23AM (#18574279)

time travel?

April Fool's! (Score:3, Funny)

by enharmonix ( 988983 ) writes: <enharmonix+slashdot@gmail.com> on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:23AM (#18574289)

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?

Time to Modernize.... (Score:3, Funny)

by truckaxle ( 883149 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:40AM (#18574579) Homepage

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 :)

Re:Turing tarpit (Score:3, Funny)

by AKAImBatman ( 238306 ) * writes: <akaimbatman@gmaYEATSil.com minus poet> on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:41AM (#18574589) Homepage Journal

time travel?

Yes. [wikipedia.org] Next question?

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

by Pichu0102 ( 916292 ) writes: <pichu0102@gmail.com> on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:50AM (#18574715) Homepage Journal

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

Re:My First Thought (Score:3, Funny)

by The_Wilschon ( 782534 ) writes: on Monday April 02, 2007 @06:40PM (#18580239) Homepage

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

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Well, if this keeps people from making C into JS (Score:5, Funny)

Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

ya know (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Turing tarpit (Score:1, Funny)

April Fool's! (Score:3, Funny)

Time to Modernize.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Turing tarpit (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Don't even think it. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:My First Thought (Score:3, Funny)

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