Template:Did you know nominations/Autoflow
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Autoflow
- ... that in 1968, ADR's Autoflow flowchart software became the first program to receive a software patent in the United States? Source: Campbell-Kelly p213
Created by Maury Markowitz (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 202 past nominations.
Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:37, 17 December 2024 (UTC).
- Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
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@Maury Markowitz: A few issues: (i) there is a maintenance tag on the article, as it has no categories – this needs to be fixed; and (ii) could you provide a direct quote verifying it as the first software patent? In the cited article I read that "In 1968, Goetz applied for a patent for the program; in 1970, it was
one of the earliest software product patents granted." Might be missing it, but I'm not seeing it explicitly referred to as the first, as opposed to one of the earliest. Add categories and let me know the part of the source confirming it as the first and this should be good. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Well caught, wrong link. I can't seem to cut and paste from PDFs any more, so if you go here and scroll to page 10 you will see "for the first time computer software is being covered by a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Autoflow... is to be the first patented program." Worth noting that this was not Goetz's first software-related patent, he got another in 1968 for a sorting system but that was not "a program" in the sense this is. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:23, 18 December 2024 (UTC)