how patent law transformed software development in America Diaz, Gerardo Con creator text New Haven Yale University Press 2019 monographic eng

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xv, 360 p. "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 Gerardo Con Díaz Includes bibliographical references and index. Eng Computer software-United States-Patents-History Patent laws and legislation-United States-History 346.730486 DIA-S 9780300228397 260730 20260730160312.0