European Software Patent Statistics

The difficulty is that there is no explicit identification for software related patents. Therefore we had to download and scan all patents, so as to assign each patent a probability of being a software patent. Expressions related to algorithms and programming raised the probability, those related to forces of nature lowered it. This has led to a fairly high score rate, but still you will occasionally encounter a true hardware patent.

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pubjar	applicant	patcnt
2004	MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD	104
2004	MICROSOFT CORP	101
2004	SONY CORP	92
2004	SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD	90
2004	CANON KK	39
2004	FUJITSU LTD	37
2004	RICOH KK	37
2004	CIT ALCATEL	33
2004	PIONEER CORP	30
2004	NIPPON ELECTRIC CO	29
2004	SAP AG	25
2004	SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD [KR]	25
2004	BROADCOM CORP	25
2004	TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC	25
2004	SEIKO EPSON CORP	25
2004	HITACHI LTD	24
2004	TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO	24
2004	TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FRANCE	22
2004	NTT DOCOMO INC	22
2004	SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC	22
2004	HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO	18
2004	MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP	15
2004	MICROSOFT CORP [US]	14
2004	HEWLETT PACKARD CO	14
2004	EASTMAN KODAK CO	14
2004	FUJITSU LTD [JP]	14
2004	SIEMENS AG	14
2004	NOKIA CORP	14
2004	ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL	12
2004	SONY UK LTD	12
2004	SONY INT EUROP GMBH	12
2004	LG ELECTRONICS INC	12
2004	SONY CORP [JP]	11
2004	MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]	11
2004	SHARP KK	10
2004	CANON KK [JP]	9
2004	YAMAHA CORP	9
2004	SEIKO EPSON CORP [JP]	8
2004	HUGHES ELECTRONICS CORP	8
2004	AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC	8
2004	RICOH KK [JP]	7
2004	NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE	7
2004	ABB RESEARCH LTD	7
2004	ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M	7
2004	HUAWEI TECH CO LTD	6
2004	NORTEL NETWORKS LTD	6
2004	ACTIVCARD IRELAND LTD	6
2004	SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC [US]	6
2004	ALCATEL CANADA INC	6
2004	LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC	6
2004	FRANCE TELECOM	6
2004	ENSEQUENCE INC	6
2004	NIPPON ELECTRIC CO [JP]	6
2004	XEROX CORP	5
2004	HEWLETT PACKARD CO [US]	5
2004	MOTOROLA INC	5
2004	CIT ALCATEL [FR]	5
2004	BROTHER IND LTD	5
2004	ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL [IT]	5
2004	OCE TECH BV	5
2004	OPENWAVE SYSTEMS INC	5
2004	HITACHI LTD [JP]	5
2004	FANUC LTD	5
2004	AGFA GEVAERT	5
2004	TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO [JP]	5
2004	KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM	5
2004	SIEMENS AG [DE]	5
2004	PITNEY BOWES	5
2004	LG ELECTRONICS INC [KR]	5
2004	OMRON TATEISI ELECTRONICS CO [JP]	4
2004	ARUZE CO LTD	4
2004	FUJI XEROX CO LTD	4
2004	NIPPON KOGAKU KK	4
2004	HUGHES ELECTRONICS CORP [US]	4
2004	ANADIGM INC	4
2004	ROCKWELL SOFTWARE INC	4
2004	IBM	4
2004	NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP	4
2004	NEC INFRONTIA CORP	4
2004	VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN	4

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