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First Software Patent Granted 28 Years Ago

As Wired reminded us on Tuesday, it was 28 years ago this week that the first ever patent on software was granted to Satya Pal Asija for 'Swift-Answer,' his software package that provided "full text, free-form, narrative, information input, storage and retrieval." The app was actually created 40 years ago, in 1969, but it took six years and a law degree for Asija to successfully navigate the ...