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All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report

PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Parts of the Report

Description of the Report
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PART A1 -
Number of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant

Percent of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant

PART A2 -
Number of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

Percent of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

PART B
Organizational Patentees With 1000 or More Patents Granted During the Period, As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant and/or As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

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All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Description of the Report

This report counts only documents of the following type(s):
utility patents (i.e., "patents for invention")
granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during the period 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007. These profiled documents hereafter will be referred to as "patents".

PATENTS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT

This Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT) Report profiles patent activity for U.S. patents granted between 01/01/1963 and 12/31/2007. The source of the data used for this report is the TAF database maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

PARTS A1 AND A2 (IF INCLUDED)

Parts A1 and A2, if included, present tables which profile, by number and percent, the activity of the specified patents. Annual totals may be provided for some years and a consolidated year total also may be provided. Part A1 presents data by year of patent grant ("Patents Granted As Distributed By Year of Patent Grant"). Part A2 redistributes patent grant data by year of patent application, i.e., the year in which each patent application was filed ("Patents Granted As Distributed By Year of Patent Application"). Patent data as shown in the "Pre YYYY" column (where "YYYY" is a four-digit year) correspond to activity in the specified period prior to "YYYY".

In Tables A1-1a and A2-1a, the totals are broken down by origin (patent origin is determined by the residence of the first-named inventor), either U.S. or foreign. Separate counts are displayed for many of the foreign countries receiving the most granted patents during the period. In Tables A1-1b and A2-1b, patent counts are displayed according to general category of ownership, e.g., corporate-owned, government-owned, or individual-owned.

Patent ownership information reflects ownership at the time of patent grant and does not include subsequent changes in ownership. If more than one assignee (owner entity) was declared at the time of grant, the patent is attributed to the first-named assignee. The U.S. and Foreign Corporations ownership categories count predominantly corporate patents; however, patents assigned to other organizations such as small businesses, nonprofit organizations, universities, etc. are also included in this category. While U.S. Government patent ownership includes only patents granted to the Federal Government, no such distinction is made for Foreign Government ownership patents.

Please note that U.S. origin patents may have foreign category ownership and that foreign origin patents may have U.S. category ownership. Therefore, the patents having U.S.category ownership (or foreign category ownership) do not necessarily correspond to the patents having U.S. origin (or foreign origin) and the sum of U.S. category ownership patents (or foreign category ownership patents) will not equal the sum of U.S. origin patents (or foreign origin patents).

Also, please note that patent documents in the TAF database are limited to utility patents granted no earlier than January 1963 and to other document types (i.e., design, plant, and reissue patents, statutory invention registrations, and defensive publications) granted no earlier than 1977.

PART B (IF INCLUDED)

Part B is a listing of national and international organizations (i.e., corporations, universities, government agencies, etc.) that have received U.S. patents during the profiled time period. The availability of assigned ownership data in the TAF database, as displayed in Part B, begins in 1969 for utility patent grants and in 1977 for design, plant, and reissue patents, statutory invention registrations, and defensive publications. The listing is limited to organizations receiving 1000 or more patents during the period. This minimum number is identified in the title heading of the table. Part B ranks these organizations in terms of total patents granted for the period and displays their annual patent activity for the most recent period. Patent grants may be distributed in two ways, by year of grant and/or by year of patent application. Data lines for each listed organization may distribute the counts of patent grants by the year of grant and/or by the year in which the patented applications were filed. Please note that in some reports, only one of these two data lines may be displayed. Information regarding patent ownership reflects ownership at the time of patent grant. Although a substantial effort has been made to combine name variations into a single organizational name, many organizations continue to have patents listed under more than one name.

Patent data, as shown in the "Pre YYYY" column (where "YYYY" is a four-digit year), correspond to activity in the specified period prior to "YYYY".

DATA DISTRIBUTION BY YEAR OF GRANT AND BY YEAR OF APPLICATION

Other Considerations

DATA FOR THOSE APPLICATIONS WHICH WERE FILED BUT NEVER ISSUED (ROUGHLY 34% OF TOTAL FILINGS) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT.

Since the average time period between filing for a patent and the issuing of the patent (i.e., the patent's "pendency") is now about 32 months (for utility patents), the patent grant data, as distributed by year of application, are incomplete for the most recent years that are displayed in the report.* This is because a significant number of those applications which ultimately will become patents were still pending as of these most recent years that are displayed.

Patented application data are of significant value since the date an application was filed more accurately reflects when the technology was developed. Additionally, fluctuations in data based on application date are much more likely to reflect changes in technological activity since, for the most part, such fluctuations would be immune from changes in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) processing such as occurred in years such as 1986 and 2005 when the USPTO issued fewer patents than would have normally been expected due to administrative reasons. Note that a patent's "pendency" can be quite variable from one patent to another, thereby affecting the date of patent grant. Such variation in pendency is determined by many factors, including PTO workload (which varies between technologies), budget and manpower levels, patent printing schedules, etc. Please note that other types of patent documents such as design patents, plant patents, reissue patents, statutory invention registrations,and defensive publications may have average pendency periods that differ somewhat from the pendency period for utility patents.

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* For example, in a report profiling utility patents granted through December 2007, patent grant data, as distributed by year of application are approximately 98% complete for utility patent applications filed in 2000, 91% complete for applications filed in 2001, 86% complete for applications filed in 2002, 69% complete for applications filed in 2003, 46% complete for applications filed in 2004, and 21% complete for applications filed in 2005; data are essentially complete for applications filed prior to 2000.

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All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Part A1
Tables A1-1a and A1-1b

Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A1-1a) and by Ownership Category (Table A1-1b)

PART A1- Table A1-1a, Breakout by Country of Origin
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   2198193 101676 101419 109645 111984 147518 153485 157494 166035 167331 169022 164291 143806 173772 157283 4222954
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1386175 56066 55739 61104 61708 80289 83905 85068 87600 86971 87892 84271 74637 89823 79527 2460775
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   812018 45610 45680 48541 50276 67229 69580 72426 78435 80360 81130 80020 69169 83949 77756 1762179
JAPAN   269116 22384 21764 23053 23179 30840 31104 31295 33223 34858 35515 35348 30341 36807 33354 692181
GERMANY   175507 6731 6600 6818 7008 9095 9337 10235 11260 11280 11444 10779 9011 10005 9051 304161
UNITED KINGDOM   81184 2236 2481 2454 2680 3467 3576 3669 3967 3843 3631 3450 3148 3585 3292 126663
FRANCE   66559 2779 2821 2788 2958 3674 3820 3819 4041 4035 3868 3380 2866 3431 3130 113969
CANADA   38948 2008 2104 2232 2379 2974 3226 3419 3606 3431 3427 3374 2894 3572 3318 80912
TAIWAN   6169 1443 1620 1897 2057 3100 3693 4667 5371 5431 5298 5938 5118 6361 6128 64291
SWITZERLAND   36329 1169 1056 1112 1090 1279 1279 1322 1420 1364 1308 1277 995 1201 1035 53236
SOUTH KOREA   2546 943 1161 1493 1891 3259 3562 3314 3538 3786 3944 4428 4352 5908 6295 50420
ITALY   24624 1215 1078 1200 1239 1584 1492 1714 1709 1751 1722 1584 1296 1480 1302 44990
SWEDEN   22427 706 806 854 867 1225 1401 1577 1741 1675 1521 1290 1123 1243 1061 39517
NETHERLANDS   20960 852 799 797 808 1226 1247 1241 1332 1391 1325 1273 993 1323 1250 36817
AUSTRALIA   8084 467 459 471 478 720 707 705 876 859 902 953 910 1325 1266 19182
BELGIUM   7879 352 397 488 515 693 648 694 718 722 622 612 519 625 520 16004
ISRAEL   4129 350 384 484 534 754 743 783 970 1040 1193 1028 924 1218 1107 15641
AUSTRIA   8030 289 337 362 376 387 479 505 589 530 592 540 463 577 456 14512
FINLAND   4174 312 358 444 452 595 649 618 732 809 865 918 720 950 850 13446
DENMARK   4620 207 199 241 333 392 487 436 479 426 529 414 358 439 388 9948
U.S.S.R.   6898 53 12 16 4 6 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6994
SPAIN   2508 141 148 157 177 248 222 270 269 303 309 264 273 295 268 5852
NORWAY   2634 126 130 139 142 198 224 248 265 242 262 243 220 244 247 5564
CHINA P.REP.   431 48 62 46 62 72 90 119 195 289 297 404 402 661 772 3950
SOUTH AFRICA   2390 101 123 111 101 115 110 111 120 113 112 100 87 109 82 3885
SINGAPORE   197 51 53 88 94 120 144 218 296 410 427 449 346 412 393 3698
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   702 57 86 88 81 160 155 179 237 233 276 311 283 308 338 3494
INDIA   428 27 37 35 47 85 112 131 178 249 342 363 384 481 546 3445
HUNGARY   2146 46 50 43 25 50 39 36 60 48 72 48 46 49 47 2805
NEW ZEALAND   1025 37 44 52 85 114 114 107 124 140 135 142 122 136 113 2490
MEXICO   1530 44 40 39 45 57 76 76 81 94 85 86 80 66 55 2454
IRELAND   711 48 47 77 71 71 90 121 141 127 163 186 156 174 146 2329
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 38 98 116 111 189 181 183 234 200 203 169 148 172 188 2233
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   2056 19 15 8 9 9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2121
BRAZIL   752 60 63 63 62 74 91 98 110 96 130 106 77 121 90 1993
ARGENTINA   635 32 31 30 35 43 44 54 51 54 63 46 24 38 37 1217
LUXEMBOURG   521 22 24 18 22 20 22 40 33 37 35 44 41 33 38 950
POLAND   610 8 8 15 11 15 19 13 16 11 17 16 23 29 32 843
MALAYSIA   71 10 7 12 17 23 30 42 39 55 50 80 88 113 158 795
Others (137)   4485 199 178 200 231 296 359 366 414 427 446 377 338 458 403 9177
PART A1- Table A1-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   1057834 44037 44038 48742 50221 66052 69389 70887 74329 74154 75326 73022 65207 78925 70498 1962661
U.S. GOVERNMENT   42159 1258 1028 924 944 1028 984 928 957 913 882 842 698 792 724 55061
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   339878 12805 12885 13729 12914 16407 16698 16129 15203 14116 13536 12172 10358 11857 9898 528585
FOREIGN CORPORATION   633771 38787 38685 41475 42907 57666 60168 63179 68938 71662 73098 72776 63114 77374 71955 1475555
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   9097 296 245 259 273 256 162 104 92 112 85 79 58 51 69 11238
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   115454 4493 4538 4516 4725 6109 6084 6267 6516 6374 6095 5400 4371 4773 4139 189854

All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Part A1
Tables A1-2a and A1-2b

Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A1-2a) and by Ownership Category (Table A1-2b)

PART A1- Table A1-2a, Breakout by Country of Origin
Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   63.1 55.1 55.0 55.7 55.1 54.4 54.7 54.0 52.8 52.0 52.0 51.3 51.9 51.7 50.6 58.3
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   36.9 44.9 45.0 44.3 44.9 45.6 45.3 46.0 47.2 48.0 48.0 48.7 48.1 48.3 49.4 41.7
JAPAN   12.2 22.0 21.5 21.0 20.7 20.9 20.3 19.9 20.0 20.8 21.0 21.5 21.1 21.2 21.2 16.4
GERMANY   8.0 6.6 6.5 6.2 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.5 6.8 6.7 6.8 6.6 6.3 5.8 5.8 7.2
UNITED KINGDOM   3.7 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.1 3.0
FRANCE   3.0 2.7 2.8 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.7
CANADA   1.8 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.1 1.9
TAIWAN   0.3 1.4 1.6 1.7 1.8 2.1 2.4 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.9 1.5
SWITZERLAND   1.7 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.3
SOUTH KOREA   0.1 0.9 1.1 1.4 1.7 2.2 2.3 2.1 2.1 2.3 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.4 4.0 1.2
ITALY   1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 1.1
SWEDEN   1.0 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.9
NETHERLANDS   1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9
AUSTRALIA   0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.5
BELGIUM   0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4
ISRAEL   0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.4
AUSTRIA   0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
FINLAND   0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3
DENMARK   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2
U.S.S.R.   0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
SPAIN   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
NORWAY   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1
CHINA P.REP.   0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.1
SOUTH AFRICA   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
SINGAPORE   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
INDIA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1
HUNGARY   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
NEW ZEALAND   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
MEXICO   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
IRELAND   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
BRAZIL   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
ARGENTINA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
LUXEMBOURG   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
POLAND   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
MALAYSIA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Others (137)   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
PART A1- Table A1-2b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   48.1 43.3 43.4 44.5 44.8 44.8 45.2 45.0 44.8 44.3 44.6 44.4 45.3 45.4 44.8 46.5
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1.9 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1.3
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   15.5 12.6 12.7 12.5 11.5 11.1 10.9 10.2 9.2 8.4 8.0 7.4 7.2 6.8 6.3 12.5
FOREIGN CORPORATION   28.8 38.1 38.1 37.8 38.3 39.1 39.2 40.1 41.5 42.8 43.2 44.3 43.9 44.5 45.7 34.9
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   5.3 4.4 4.5 4.1 4.2 4.1 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.6 4.5

All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Part A2
Tables A2-1a and A2-1b

Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A2-1a) and by Ownership Category (Table A2-1b)

PART A2- Table A2-1a, Breakout by Country of Origin
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   2387021 123329 144500 144731 169245 167703 178508 190418 196547 188841 155199 107123 53930 15147 712 4222954
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1490453 68192 81836 77900 91864 90988 95750 100545 99667 94792 78961 54550 27316 7608 353 2460775
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   896568 55137 62664 66831 77381 76715 82758 89873 96880 94049 76238 52573 26614 7539 359 1762179
JAPAN   310677 26228 29056 30951 35819 33191 34078 38499 41994 38705 32879 23433 12822 3664 185 692181
GERMANY   187479 7661 8635 8863 10248 10352 12150 12760 13610 13789 9670 5739 2565 619 21 304161
UNITED KINGDOM   85805 2962 3481 3392 3928 3991 4354 4483 4714 4413 2927 1432 608 169 4 126663
FRANCE   71909 3192 3765 3565 4088 3981 4381 4692 4526 4349 2983 1705 679 151 3 113969
CANADA   42643 2576 3080 2992 3469 3768 3882 4068 3974 3838 3126 2154 1034 293 15 80912
TAIWAN   8159 1922 2257 2941 3547 4522 5692 5046 5900 6755 6876 5968 3466 1181 59 64291
SWITZERLAND   38371 1242 1356 1237 1358 1382 1468 1551 1648 1530 1094 636 261 98 4 53236
SOUTH KOREA   4423 1617 2125 3486 3858 3946 3686 4155 4642 5490 5736 4660 2120 453 23 50420
ITALY   26744 1302 1499 1518 1677 1665 1757 1887 2090 1995 1509 854 375 113 5 44990
SWEDEN   23854 1016 1126 1174 1736 1777 1826 1881 1805 1579 1004 477 206 54 2 39517
NETHERLANDS   22555 953 1082 1215 1414 1266 1389 1550 1731 1593 1101 735 169 60 4 36817
AUSTRALIA   9055 534 644 736 724 913 912 1139 1088 1231 924 793 367 112 10 19182
BELGIUM   8577 530 713 697 689 731 782 775 768 751 559 283 110 38 1 16004
ISRAEL   4892 600 695 682 845 941 1261 1391 1462 1236 798 471 283 77 7 15641
AUSTRIA   8589 408 454 406 467 536 585 600 678 771 529 322 126 40 1 14512
FINLAND   4832 475 551 693 756 728 977 1146 1177 995 631 322 124 38 1 13446
DENMARK   5022 290 457 360 475 484 553 535 663 557 339 131 67 15 0 9948
U.S.S.R.   6968 10 9 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6994
SPAIN   2768 191 209 229 270 255 265 328 423 347 294 180 80 13 0 5852
NORWAY   2884 146 188 192 228 226 310 313 354 355 206 101 41 20 0 5564
CHINA P.REP.   540 52 64 70 100 125 183 316 455 552 498 522 339 131 3 3950
SOUTH AFRICA   2602 138 101 112 110 122 128 132 155 131 81 55 15 3 0 3885
SINGAPORE   293 99 101 138 173 233 359 456 507 517 355 280 150 35 2 3698
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   815 110 102 139 156 189 236 257 360 362 365 252 114 35 2 3494
INDIA   492 42 53 83 121 138 205 323 455 572 499 308 130 23 1 3445
HUNGARY   2238 45 51 36 38 53 55 72 68 78 40 17 12 1 1 2805
NEW ZEALAND   1100 79 89 111 129 118 130 175 190 168 127 46 21 7 0 2490
MEXICO   1603 51 52 65 71 88 84 95 117 78 84 35 27 4 0 2454
IRELAND   801 98 78 81 108 155 138 181 203 217 128 83 47 8 3 2329
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   126 129 147 187 195 190 252 245 249 207 162 93 43 7 1 2233
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   2091 10 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2121
BRAZIL   856 92 66 77 91 93 119 117 133 150 107 65 17 10 0 1993
ARGENTINA   695 38 35 45 46 58 43 64 72 44 35 25 9 8 0 1217
LUXEMBOURG   553 32 20 25 32 32 34 41 45 59 43 28 5 1 0 950
POLAND   629 15 9 18 14 15 21 21 24 37 18 12 6 4 0 843
MALAYSIA   87 13 20 24 42 25 55 56 85 83 124 106 59 15 1 795
Others (137)   4841 239 284 283 352 424 408 523 515 515 387 250 117 39 0 9177
PART A2- Table A2-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   1141880 54498 67572 64739 77194 76736 81578 86424 86894 82398 67745 45758 22715 6246 284 1962661
U.S. GOVERNMENT   44591 1093 1177 923 962 924 843 980 984 899 767 533 304 76 5 55061
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   361581 15219 16100 15319 16930 15952 15866 15696 14246 14119 12195 9037 4836 1427 62 528585
FOREIGN CORPORATION   706234 46981 53957 57739 67708 67956 73322 80218 87384 84707 69295 48569 24339 6808 338 1475555
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   9613 290 294 243 168 111 108 133 86 93 58 33 7 1 0 11238
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   123122 5248 5400 5768 6283 6024 6791 6967 6953 6625 5139 3193 1729 589 23 189854

All Technologies (Utility Patents) Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Part A2
Tables A2-2a and A2-2b

Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A2-2a) and by Ownership Category (Table A2-2b)

PART A2- Table A2-2a, Breakout by Country of Origin
Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   62.4 55.3 56.6 53.8 54.3 54.3 53.6 52.8 50.7 50.2 50.9 50.9 50.7 50.2 49.6 58.3
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   37.6 44.7 43.4 46.2 45.7 45.7 46.4 47.2 49.3 49.8 49.1 49.1 49.3 49.8 50.4 41.7
JAPAN   13.0 21.3 20.1 21.4 21.2 19.8 19.1 20.2 21.4 20.5 21.2 21.9 23.8 24.2 26.0 16.4
GERMANY   7.9 6.2 6.0 6.1 6.1 6.2 6.8 6.7 6.9 7.3 6.2 5.4 4.8 4.1 2.9 7.2
UNITED KINGDOM   3.6 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.3 1.9 1.3 1.1 1.1 0.6 3.0
FRANCE   3.0 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.3 2.3 1.9 1.6 1.3 1.0 0.4 2.7
CANADA   1.8 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.9 2.1 1.9
TAIWAN   0.3 1.6 1.6 2.0 2.1 2.7 3.2 2.6 3.0 3.6 4.4 5.6 6.4 7.8 8.3 1.5
SWITZERLAND   1.6 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 1.3
SOUTH KOREA   0.2 1.3 1.5 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.1 2.2 2.4 2.9 3.7 4.4 3.9 3.0 3.2 1.2
ITALY   1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.1
SWEDEN   1.0 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.9
NETHERLANDS   0.9 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.9
AUSTRALIA   0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.4 0.5
BELGIUM   0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.4
ISRAEL   0.2 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.4
AUSTRIA   0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.3
FINLAND   0.2 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.3
DENMARK   0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2
U.S.S.R.   0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
SPAIN   0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
NORWAY   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1