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G06F 8/70

Software maintenance or management

Introduced: January 2018

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Arrangements for software engineering > Software maintenance or management

CPC:

Arrangements for software engineering (testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06) > Software maintenance or management

Of 8 combined children, 7 exist in both systems.

1 codes are CPC-only extensions.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2018.

Child Classifications

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  • G06F 8/71 Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/72 Code refactoring since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/73 Program documentation since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/74 Reverse engineering; Extracting design information from source code since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/77 Software metrics since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 8/78 CPC only CPC only

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
  4. GOOGLE US 35,735
  5. INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
  8. APPLE US 23,482
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917