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This is not novel. This is not innovative. It is a relatively obvious method for dynamic code loading over the web that any intermediate programmer could have arrived at independently.

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It's also not a patent. It's a patent application.

The USPO seems to rubber stamp all software patents.

As a patent attorney, I can assure you that this is not true.

As a programmer you're going to have a hard time convincing me that it's not.

No one could argue that the patent office never lets through a patent that claims obvious subject matter. Mistakes get made, and bullshit patents issue.

In general though, the examiners I have dealt with are more likely to advance bullshit rejections than issue bullshit patents.

That many intermediate programmers DID arrive at independently.

Let's make a list of prior art. What demonstratable open-source projects do this? Rails, I think?

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