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I’ve been reading the new book “Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer Implemented Inventions” (Springer publishing 2010) which was written by European Patent Examiners Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, and Jörg Machek.  One of the interesting observations that they make in the book is that the first  patent ever granted that related to software is GB1039141  granted in 1966 and titled “A Computer Arranged for the Automatic Solution of Linear Programming Problems.”  The assignee — British Petroleum Company.

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