Book ID: CBB992270814

Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America (2019)

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Con Diaz, Gerardo (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 384 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Biagioli, Mario
Con Diaz, Gerardo
Kneuper, Ralf
Jeff Kosseff
Mirowski, Alexander
Driscoll, Kevin
Concepts
Technology and law
Intellectual property
Patents
Software
Technology and society
Internet
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Modern
18th century
Places
United States
North America
Institutions
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
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