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Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Author: Gerardo Con Diaz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300228397
Published In: January 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Diaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age. Software patents, he argues, facilitated the emergence of software as a product and a technology, enabled firms to challenge each other's place in the computing industry, and expanded the range of creations for which American intellectual property law provides protection. Powerful market forces, aggressive litigation strategies, and new cultures of computing usage and development transformed software into one of the most controversial technologies ever to encounter the American patent system.

Introduction

Code Made Tangible - 1945-54

From Antitrust to Patent Law at IBM - 1950-1966

The Myth of the NonMachine - 1964-1968

Antitrust Law and Software Sales - 1965-1971

Software Patents at the Courts - 1961-1973

Remaking Software Copyright - 1974 - 1981

Making Sense of Benson - 1976 - 1982

Hobbyists and Intellectual Property from Altair to Apple

Cloned Computers and Microchip Protection - 1981 - 1984

Look Feel and Programming Freedom - 1984 - 1995

Patent Enforcement and Software Embodiment - 1986 - 1995