From the article: "In the early 1990s, during a brief fling at importing goods from Russia, he commissioned a software program to help with logistical problems."
I read "commissioned" as meaning that he hired someone else to make it for him. I've read the rest of the article a couple times now and it doesn't seem to mention what, if any contribution Mr. Pool himself made to the process. How could he possibly patent something that he hired someone else to make for him?
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I don't *think* this is redundant...
From the article: "In the early 1990s, during a brief fling at importing goods from Russia, he commissioned a software program to help with logistical problems."
I read "commissioned" as meaning that he hired someone else to make it for him. I've read the rest of the article a couple times now and it doesn't seem to mention what, if any contribution Mr. Pool himself made to the process. How could he possibly patent something that he hired someone else to make for him?