{"id":2365,"date":"2010-05-19T14:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:37:51","slug":"2365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"The First Patent Related to Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the new book &#8220;<strong>Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer Implemented Inventions<\/strong>&#8221; (Springer publishing 2010) which was written by European Patent Examiners Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, and\u00a0J\u00f6rg Machek. \u00a0One of the interesting observations that they make in the book is that the first\u00a0 patent\u00a0ever granted that related to software is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gb1039141a.pdf\">GB1039141<\/a>\u00a0 granted in 1966 and titled &#8220;A Computer Arranged for the Automatic Solution of Linear Programming Problems.&#8221;\u00a0 The assignee &#8212; British Petroleum Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the new book &#8220;Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer Implemented Inventions&#8221; (Springer publishing 2010) which was written by European Patent Examiners Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, and\u00a0J\u00f6rg Machek. \u00a0One of the interesting observations that they make in the book is that the first\u00a0 patent\u00a0ever granted that related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}