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Looking for the latest software niche to invest in? Tracking software patenting provides a glimpse of what the tinkerers have been tinkering on. In 1995, networking and security were hot, while biotech and virtual reality were not. Unfortunately, the US Patent Office is still ill equipped to examine software patent applications, and many of them are likely to be disallowed.
Source: Internet Patent News Service
