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Intangible Inventions: A History of Software Patenting in the United States, 1945–1985

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

GERARDO CON DIAZ
GERARDO CON DIAZ*
Affiliation:
Gerardo Con Diaz is an assistant professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis, and an Affiliated Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. He holds a PhD in History (History of Science and Medicine) from Yale University, as well as an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and a BA in Mathematics from Harvard University. E-mail: condiaz@ucdavis.edu
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 784 - 794
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Copyright © The Author 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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Con Diaz, Gerardo. “Contested Ontologies of Software: The Story of Gottschalk v. Benson, 1963–1972.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 38, no. 1 (January–March 2016): 23–33.Google Scholar
Con Diaz, Gerardo. “Embodied Software: Patents and the History of Software Development, 1946–1970.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 37, no. 3 (July–September 2015): 8–19.Google Scholar
Con Diaz, Gerardo. “The Text in the Machine: American Copyright Law and the Many Natures of Computer Programs, 1974–1978.” Technology & Culture 57, no. 4 (October 2016): 753–779.Google Scholar
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