Template:Did you know nominations/Autoflow

Autoflow

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... 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
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1st Separate Airborne Brigade

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)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @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)