AJAX and other rich media technologies patented?
This has to be a joke, some kind of twisted humor. Apparently the U.S. Government granted a patent to a web design company in California, one which:
…covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles…
Read the truly horrifying story at U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications (found through Zeldman).
7 Comments/Reactions
February 24th, 2006 at 16:58
I am not taking this serious really. The US Patent Office has become one big joke.
February 24th, 2006 at 17:36
I don’t see any way this could possible be enforced.
February 24th, 2006 at 18:20
Ah what fun, made me chuckle anyways. Next they will patent blogs.
February 25th, 2006 at 3:00
@karmatosed
Been there, done that! LOL
Patent XAML and beat M$ at its own game? That would be interesting!
February 25th, 2006 at 14:58
Joke it is not!
I am wondering, wheather it will hurt software like Firefox, IE, Opera – i.e. platfrom guys, or will hurt service vendors’ portals – yahoo, google, microsoft, etc.
If first – we have nothing to worry about … They will settle
February 26th, 2006 at 15:45
Looks like a hoax. And besides, that’s exactly the reason why me and many others support the No Software Patents initiative.
February 27th, 2006 at 9:46
I agree, I think there’s no way this can be enforced…
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