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Questions about the history of the patent system or the histories of specific patents.

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Was there a landmark controversial software patent of a trivial idea before the "XOR flashin...

In 1972 the US Supreme Court decided the case of Gottschalk v. Benson, which addressed the then-controversial idea of whether or not the software implementation of an algorithm for converting decimal …
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