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"Computerized
Commerce"; Ivan E. Sutherland; September 1975. Acceptance address for
the 1975 Award for Outstanding Accomplishment of the Systems, Man, Cybernetics
Society, San Francisco, California, September 23, 1975.
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Kenneth
W. Dobyns, The Patent Office Pony: A History of the Early Patent Office,
Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society (1994).
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"One
of the most important of his inventions was in the engraving of bank bills.
[Fifty] years ago counterfeiting was carried on with an audacity and a
success which would seem incredible at the present time. The ease with
which the clumsy engravings of the bank bills of the day were imitated,
was a temptation to every knave who could scratch copper; and counterfeits
flooded the country, to the serious detriment of trade. Perkins invented
the stereotype check-plate, which no art of counterfeiting could match;
and a security was thus given to bank paper which it had never known.";
The Patent Office, Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year
1849, Part I. Arts and Manufactures (1850).
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Edmund
Burke Commissioner of Patents, List of Patents for Inventions and Designs,
Issued by the United States from 1790 to 1847 (1847).
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http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/57.html
and http://www.computer-museum.org/collections/hollerith.html
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Business
Method Patents, i.e. automated financial/management business data processing
method patents, were patented long before the USPTO's "Examination
Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions," 1184 Off. Gaz. Pat.
Office 87 (March 26, 1996) and the decision in State
Street Bank & Trust v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d
1368, 47 USPQ2d 1596 (Fed. Cir. 1998), cert. Denied, __U.S.__, 119 S.
Ct. 851 (1999).
State
Street merely modified the test used to determine "statutory subject
matter." It is important to understand that many business data processing
methods were deemed statutory subject matter under the old "Business
Method Exemption" test. For example, the claims in State Street were
deemed by the USPTO to meet the statutory subject matter requirement
under the old test.
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