01197nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000130007608200220008910000220011124501040013326000460023730000150028350000510029852005400034954600080088965000520089765000540094920260730160312.0260730s2019    |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780300228397  cPK-LaUMT  a346.730486bDIA-S1 aDiaz, Gerardo Con10aSoftware rights :bhow patent law transformed software development in America /cGerardo Con Díaz  aNew Haven :bYale University Press,c2019  axv, 360 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"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  aEng  aComputer software-United States-Patents-History  aPatent laws and legislation-United States-History