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28 years ago today: World's first software patent successfully filed

by Ben Gilbert (May 26th 2009 9:00PM)

And so it was, approximately 40 years ago, that Satya Pal Asija created Swift-Answer, a piece of software used for "full text, free-form, narrative, information input, storage and retrieval." With his creation, Asija set forth on a quest to get his software patented -- not copyrighted, mind you -- ...

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