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1 online resource (379 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. Early Patent Protections -- 1. Code Made Tangible, 1945-1954 -- 2. From Antitrust to Patent Law at IBM, 1950-1966 -- 3. The Myth of the Non-Machine, 1964-1968 -- Part Two. Software, Courts, and Congress -- 4. Antitrust Law and Software Sales, 1965-1971 -- 5. Software Patents at the Courts, 1961-1973 -- 6. Remaking Software Copyright, 1974-1981 -- 7. Making Sense of Benson, 1976-1982 -- Part Three. IP for PCs -- 8. Hobbyists and Intellectual Property from Altair to Apple, 1975-1981 -- 9. Cloned Computers and Microchip Protection, 1981-1984 -- 10. Look, Feel, and Programming Freedom, 1984-1995 -- 11. Patent Enforcement and Software Embodiment, 1986-1995 -- 12. Software Rights for a New Millennium, 1993-2000 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
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 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. 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-342) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Computer software -- United States -- Patents -- History.
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Computer software. |
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United States. |
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Patents. |
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History. |
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Patent laws and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Computer software industry -- Law and legislation -- History.
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Patent laws and legislation. |
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Computer software industry. |
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Software protection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Software protection -- Law and legislation. |
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Computer software industry -- Law and legislation. |
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LAW -- Intellectual Property -- Patent. |
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Computer software -- Patents. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Con Díaz, Gerardo. Software rights. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300228397 (DLC) 2019935201 (OCoLC)1090005640 |
| ISBN |
9780300249323 (electronic book) |
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0300249322 (electronic book) |
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9780300228397 |
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0300228392 |
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