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Softwarepatent

Quality:

Software patent - time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure. Article “Softwarepatent” in German Wikipedia has 78.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 77 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.13 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Softwarepatent”, its content was written by 262 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1229 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 130 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1552 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #4 in September 2003
  • Global: #74 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #13606 in September 2023
  • Global: #59497 in May 2010

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Softwarepatent
78.5147
2English (en)
Software patent
76.7994
3Korean (ko)
소프트웨어 특허
70.7866
4Italian (it)
Brevetto software
46.378
5Greek (el)
Δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας σε λογισμικό
36.8777
6Russian (ru)
Патенты и программное обеспечение
32.8949
7Swedish (sv)
Programvarupatent
29.991
8French (fr)
Brevet logiciel
29.8146
9Bulgarian (bg)
Софтуерен патент
23.1154
10Spanish (es)
Patente de software
22.1327
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Softwarepatent" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Software patent
1 438 870
2German (de)
Softwarepatent
297 800
3Japanese (ja)
ソフトウェア特許
194 896
4French (fr)
Brevet logiciel
177 817
5Spanish (es)
Patente de software
168 953
6Russian (ru)
Патенты и программное обеспечение
132 669
7Polish (pl)
Patenty na oprogramowanie
79 402
8Italian (it)
Brevetto software
78 753
9Dutch (nl)
Octrooi op software
57 881
10Greek (el)
Δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας σε λογισμικό
30 317
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Softwarepatent" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Software patent
1 144
2German (de)
Softwarepatent
179
3French (fr)
Brevet logiciel
101
4Russian (ru)
Патенты и программное обеспечение
98
5Spanish (es)
Patente de software
94
6Japanese (ja)
ソフトウェア特許
61
7Chinese (zh)
软件专利
49
8Italian (it)
Brevetto software
34
9Dutch (nl)
Octrooi op software
26
10Czech (cs)
Softwarový patent
22
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Softwarepatent" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Software patent
337
2German (de)
Softwarepatent
262
3French (fr)
Brevet logiciel
201
4Italian (it)
Brevetto software
74
5Dutch (nl)
Octrooi op software
74
6Polish (pl)
Patenty na oprogramowanie
40
7Swedish (sv)
Programvarupatent
37
8Spanish (es)
Patente de software
33
9Danish (da)
Softwarepatent
31
10Russian (ru)
Патенты и программное обеспечение
29
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Softwarepatent" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
براءة اختراع البرمجيات
1
2English (en)
Software patent
1
3Korean (ko)
소프트웨어 특허
1
4Swedish (sv)
Programvarupatent
1
5Azerbaijani (az)
Proqram təminatı patenti
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Софтуерен патент
0
7Catalan (ca)
Patent de programari
0
8Czech (cs)
Softwarový patent
0
9Danish (da)
Softwarepatent
0
10German (de)
Softwarepatent
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Softwarepatent" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Software patent
393
2Ukrainian (uk)
Патент на програмне забезпечення
155
3Russian (ru)
Патенты и программное обеспечение
142
4German (de)
Softwarepatent
130
5Japanese (ja)
ソフトウェア特許
129
6French (fr)
Brevet logiciel
123
7Korean (ko)
소프트웨어 특허
99
8Chinese (zh)
软件专利
70
9Greek (el)
Δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας σε λογισμικό
37
10Spanish (es)
Patente de software
33
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
براءة اختراع البرمجيات
azAzerbaijani
Proqram təminatı patenti
bgBulgarian
Софтуерен патент
caCatalan
Patent de programari
csCzech
Softwarový patent
daDanish
Softwarepatent
deGerman
Softwarepatent
elGreek
Δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας σε λογισμικό
enEnglish
Software patent
esSpanish
Patente de software
frFrench
Brevet logiciel
hiHindi
सॉफ्टवेयर एकस्व
idIndonesian
Paten perangkat lunak
itItalian
Brevetto software
jaJapanese
ソフトウェア特許
koKorean
소프트웨어 특허
nlDutch
Octrooi op software
plPolish
Patenty na oprogramowanie
ruRussian
Патенты и программное обеспечение
skSlovak
Softvérový patent
svSwedish
Programvarupatent
thThai
สิทธิบัตรซอฟต์แวร์
ukUkrainian
Патент на програмне забезпечення
zhChinese
软件专利

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#13606
09.2023
Global:
#59497
05.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#4
09.2003
Global:
#74
09.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Software patent from Wikipedia articles about Donald Knuth, Advanced Video Coding, Go, Patent and John Carmack. Whereas reading the article about Software patent people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Software patents under United States patent law, Software patents under the European Patent Convention, Patent, Software patent debate and Software patents under TRIPs Agreement.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

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In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Demokratische Republik Kongo, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026, Senegal, Julian Nagelsmann, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1994, Jürgen Klopp, Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2028, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

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