mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2008 | microsoft, patents, firsts, steve ballmer
Searching the Google Patent database, it appears that this was the first patent FILED (March 1985) and ISSUED (May 1986) to Microsoft.
Among the inventors - Steve Ballmer!
The patent covers the packaging Microsoft used in some of their earlier products - a clam-shell acrylic box that would hinge open to become a stand for the manual that was shipped with the software.
I still have some of these in my basement.
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