01266nam a22002177a 4500 20260730160312.0 260730s2019 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300228397 PK-LaUMT 346.730486 DIA-S Diaz, Gerardo Con 14552 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 Computer software-United States-Patents-History 14553 Patent laws and legislation-United States-History 14554 BK 141806 141806 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-07-30 0 346.730486 DIA-S 153616 2026-07-30 16:03:22 2026-07-30 BK