Martin Goetz, father of third-party software, dies at 93 ...Middle East

San Francisco: Martin Goetz, who wrote the first software patent in the US and was known as the ‘father of third-party software’, has died at 93. In 1968, nearly a decade after Goetz and his partners started the company called Applied Data Research, he received his patent for data-sorting software for mainframes, reports The New York Times. Goetz was awarded the patent after a three-year fight with the US Patent Office over whether software could even be patented. “Until then, software had not been viewed as a patentable product and was bundled into hulking mainframes like those made by IBM,” the report said late on Saturday. Goetz patented his own software so that IBM could not copy it and

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