In a message dated 8/19/2008 3:45:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >AFAIK the first software patent was granted to Martin Goetz of Applied Data Research, Inc. (ADR) in the sixties... I remember seeing this event well-publicized in the trade journals at the time. A colleague of mine and I jokingly came up with a new product idea once for allocating files, deleting files, and many other useful functions. Now I see I can also patent it. It's called IEFBR14. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software
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