United States Patent 3,120,606 (ENIAC)

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Date
1964
Object ID
500004299

The ENIAC patents triggered a lawsuit that spotlighted the ABC. The judge decided Mauchly derived ideas from Atanasoff. Computer architect Gordon Bell refers to the judgment, which invalidated the ENIAC patent, as the “disinvention” of the computer.