A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to ...

Although Goetz sparked an argument over whether software patents should even be granted, his life's work has been about protecting software, he says. In 1965, Marty Goetz filed the first software ...

“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market. By Richard Sandomir Martin Goetz, who joined ...

Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, software patents have a very long history in the United States. Computer implemented processes, or software, has been patented in the United States ...