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  1. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!srctran
  3. From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
  4. Subject: Software engineering patents
  5. Message-ID: <BtK1zM.My2@world.std.com>
  6. Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
  7. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:54:57 GMT
  8. Lines: 46
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  12.                            SOFTWARE CATEGORIES FOR WHICH
  13.                              PATENTS ARE BEING AWARDED
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  16.                            (Statistics from 1700 patents)
  17.  
  18.  
  19.                      Image Analysis & Vision             100
  20.                      Operating Systems                    95
  21.                      Graphics                             73
  22.                      Networks & Communication             69
  23.                      Data Bases                           52
  24.                      Process and Numerical Control        51
  25.                      Word Processing                      40
  26.                      Artificial Intelligence              31
  27.                      Financial & Management               30
  28.                      Multiprocessing                      30
  29.                      Software Engineering                 28
  30.                      Signal Processing                    28
  31.                      Computer Aided Design                25
  32.                      Numerical Analysis                   24
  33.                      User Interfaces                      22
  34.                      Neural Network                       22
  35.                      Medicince & Genetics                 22
  36.                      Pattern Recognition                  21
  37.                      Natural Language                     20
  38.                      Security & Encryption                18
  39.                      Compression                          15
  40.                      Character Recognition                15
  41.                      Geophysical                          15
  42.                      Speech Recognition                   14
  43.                      Computer Aided Engineering           13
  44.                      Parallel Processing                  10
  45.                      Simulation                           10
  46.                      Object Oriented                       9
  47.                      Automobile                            8
  48.                      Algorithms & Data Structures          7
  49.                      Engineering                           6
  50.                      Robotics                              5
  51.                      Fuzzy                                 5
  52.                      Chemistry                             3
  53.                      Office Automation                     2
  54.                      Spreadsheet                           2
  55.                      Physics                               2
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