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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 43 min. ago

Pardo and Landau's 1970 Patent Let Spreadsheet Formulas Sort Themselves, and Its Owners Sued Lotus 1-2-3 With It

https://lockergnome.com/1970-patent-spreadsheet-formula-resequencing-pardo-landau/

#RenePardo #RemyLandau #LANPAR #tech

Chris at a 1970 terminal pulling a long sheet of green-striped printout covered in a grid of boxes joined by arrows.

Pardo and Landau's 1970 Patent Let Spreadsheet Formulas Sort Themselves, and Its Owners Sued Lotus 1-2-3 With It

US Patent 4,398,249, filed by Rene Pardo and Remy Landau in 1970 and granted in 1983, covered a compiler that put a businessman's formulas in the order a computer needs; its owners sued Lotus with it, and a court held it unenforceable.

#lanpar #remylandau #renepardo #tech

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