Software rights : how patent law transformed software development in America /
Diaz, Gerardo Con
Software rights : how patent law transformed software development in America / Gerardo Con Díaz - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 - xv, 360 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz 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"-- Provided by publisher
Eng
9780300228397
Computer software-United States-Patents-History
Patent laws and legislation-United States-History
346.730486 / DIA-S
Software rights : how patent law transformed software development in America / Gerardo Con Díaz - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 - xv, 360 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz 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"-- Provided by publisher
Eng
9780300228397
Computer software-United States-Patents-History
Patent laws and legislation-United States-History
346.730486 / DIA-S