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Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

CHEMICAL CLASSES

PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Parts of the Report

Description of the Report
Report Printing and Use of Spreadsheet Software

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 200 or More Patents Granted During the Period, As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant and As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

CONTACT INFORMATION -

CHEMICAL CLASSES
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
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 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006. These profiled documents hereafter will be referred to as "patents".

The report is generated by identifying appropriate Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) classes, i.e., those entirely or substantially pertinent to the technology discipline of interest. The patents in these classes are then included in the profile. This procedure results, in most cases, in the inclusion of the majority of patents relevant to the technology discipline and few, if any, patents which are not relevant. However, any patent listing provided should not be considered to be inclusive of all relevant patents, nor exclusive of all irrelevant patents.

CHEMICAL, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL CLASSES - DECEMBER 2006

CHEMICAL -

The following table displays the USPCS classes that are included in the CHEMICAL CLASSES report
8 23 44 48 51 55 65 71 75 95 96 106 117 127 136 148 149 156 159 162
196 201 202 203 204 205 208 209 210 216 252 260 261 264 376 419 420 422 423 424
426 427 428 429 430 435 436 438 442 501 502 504 507 508 510 512 514 516 518 520
521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 530 532 534 536 540 544 546 548 549 552 554 556
558 560 562 564 568 570 585 588 800 930 976 987

The following subclasses are also Chemical: 134/1-42; 131/274-279; 505/100-126, 300-512, 725-785, 800-824, 951

ELECTRICAL -

The following table displays the USPCS classes that are included in the ELECTRICAL CLASSES report
174 178 191 200 218 219 235 250 257 290 307 310 313 314 315 318 320 322 323 324
326 327 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 340 341 342 343 345 346 348 349
355 358 360 361 362 363 365 367 368 369 370 372 373 375 377 378 379 380 381 382
383 386 388 392 396 398 399 455 503 505 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709
710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 725 726 902

The following subclasses are also Electrical: 84/600-746; 385/1-52; 359/1-108, 237-361, 558-590, 901-902; 968/876-977; 984/300-398

MECHANICAL -

The following table displays the USPCS classes that are included in the MECHANICAL CLASSES report
2 4 5 7 12 14 15 16 19 24 26 27 28 29 30 33 34 36 37 38
40 42 43 47 49 52 53 54 56 57 59 60 62 63 66 68 69 70 72 73
74 76 79 81 82 83 84 86 87 89 91 92 99 100 101 102 104 105 108 109
110 111 112 114 116 118 119 122 123 124 125 126 128 131 132 134 135 137 138 139
140 141 142 144 147 150 152 157 160 163 164 165 166 168 169 171 172 173 175 177
180 181 182 184 185 186 187 188 190 192 193 194 198 199 206 211 212 213 215 217
220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 231 232 234 236 237 238 239 241 242 244
245 246 248 249 251 254 256 258 266 267 269 270 271 273 276 277 278 279 280 281
283 285 289 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 303 305 312 347 351 352
353 356 359 366 374 384 385 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412
413 414 415 416 417 418 425 431 432 433 434 439 440 441 445 446 449 450 451 452
453 454 460 462 463 464 470 472 473 474 475 476 477 482 483 492 493 494 600 601
602 604 606 607 623 901 968 984

The following subclasses are also Mechanical: 209/3.1-3.3, 44-44.4, 509-707, 900-942; 8/147-159

PATENTS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT

This Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT) Report profiles patent activity for U.S. patents granted between 01/01/1977 and 12/31/2006. 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 200 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 are distributed in two ways, by year of grant and by year of patent application. Data line 1 for each listed organization distributes the counts of patent grants by the year of grant while data line 2 redistributes those same patent grants by the year in which the patented applications were filed. Please note that in some reports, only one of the 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 30% 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 30 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 2006, patent grant data, as distributed by year of application are approximately 94% complete for utility patent applications filed in 2000, 86% complete for applications filed in 2001, 76% complete for applications filed in 2002, 54% complete for applications filed in 2003, and 27% complete for applications filed in 2004; data are essentially complete for applications filed prior to 2000.

Report Printing and the Use of Spreadsheet Software

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CHEMICAL CLASSES
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
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: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   351988 30634 29199 29309 30610 33770 40518 43334 42330 45782 45129 42825 38369 30455 34061 868313
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   192152 16050 15417 15184 16449 18350 21577 23131 22233 23479 23014 21841 19096 15618 17338 460929
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   159836 14584 13782 14125 14161 15420 18941 20203 20097 22303 22115 20984 19273 14837 16723 407384
JAPAN   58974 6796 6419 6115 5940 6144 7411 7729 7569 8192 8397 8128 7736 5763 6320 157633
GERMANY   36523 2582 2383 2489 2475 2585 3167 3106 3157 3468 3429 3364 3015 2243 2462 76448
UNITED KINGDOM   13908 879 803 903 840 1069 1312 1381 1260 1360 1262 1166 992 802 889 28826
FRANCE   12363 1024 922 999 970 1150 1377 1447 1368 1499 1438 1359 993 855 950 28714
CANADA   5373 531 525 563 626 661 802 920 906 954 936 828 753 569 715 15662
SWITZERLAND   7565 450 412 436 420 450 463 510 452 511 471 415 388 297 336 13576
ITALY   4958 494 451 413 427 431 498 510 504 533 530 459 411 310 351 11280
TAIWAN   364 146 202 304 349 420 655 914 1261 1559 1152 984 1024 766 857 10957
SOUTH KOREA   340 164 190 301 328 424 624 736 770 936 1040 1024 1090 930 1185 10082
NETHERLANDS   3798 319 299 232 221 263 394 432 416 439 451 443 391 298 277 8673
BELGIUM   2256 203 195 226 268 327 379 384 402 406 440 347 310 236 289 6668
SWEDEN   2673 161 155 202 214 255 307 364 333 411 399 350 288 222 249 6583
AUSTRALIA   1249 92 130 136 124 154 213 237 193 282 247 196 211 185 225 3874
FINLAND   1074 107 88 114 143 146 151 172 148 200 207 184 198 139 135 3206
ISRAEL   888 105 87 87 146 123 166 195 187 196 242 253 170 144 197 3186
DENMARK   821 90 96 96 107 174 211 260 232 233 199 223 142 138 152 3174
AUSTRIA   1130 84 69 91 105 141 138 157 118 178 166 136 130 89 109 2841
INDIA   161 25 17 26 22 35 67 90 103 132 189 231 209 198 231 1736
HUNGARY   992 49 35 39 32 12 27 15 20 33 31 30 25 20 20 1380
SPAIN   393 47 41 45 59 58 91 76 70 75 94 91 71 74 83 1368
U.S.S.R.   1212 20 25 4 11 2 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1282
NORWAY   358 26 30 32 49 44 52 59 68 63 59 69 74 53 48 1084
SINGAPORE   19 6 10 16 18 35 41 50 88 126 172 158 119 96 103 1057
SOUTH AFRICA   418 30 22 36 24 34 32 37 36 47 46 35 29 26 30 882
CHINA P.REP.   90 24 19 22 22 36 41 37 51 61 81 77 96 73 109 839
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 13 35 55 54 86 76 75 83 82 68 54 55 46 783
MEXICO   236 24 21 17 16 17 20 30 26 21 24 26 20 13 13 524
NEW ZEALAND   103 9 12 9 14 19 22 34 35 26 38 35 39 17 35 447
IRELAND   142 11 11 13 18 17 11 22 24 24 22 32 35 30 16 428
BRAZIL   106 11 14 21 12 13 19 23 28 20 26 35 34 22 38 422
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   37 4 5 11 9 6 12 13 25 28 26 37 36 43 61 353
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   318 7 6 5 4 3 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350
VENEZUELA   97 13 15 15 10 19 21 26 16 15 12 4 10 3 6 282
POLAND   125 5 4 5 6 8 7 10 7 7 6 4 6 5 7 212
LUXEMBOURG   87 4 3 5 4 6 7 6 13 4 13 11 16 10 14 203
ARGENTINA   59 1 3 7 13 10 11 7 12 10 13 18 13 4 15 196
Others (97)   626 40 50 55 60 75 97 133 124 171 174 164 145 109 150 2173
PART A1- Table A1-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   181462 15101 14489 14098 15335 17183 20323 21723 21021 22128 22009 20786 18219 14917 16584 435378
U.S. GOVERNMENT   5463 413 406 361 328 377 421 436 347 368 302 309 329 245 284 10389
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   17629 1395 1359 1551 1602 1624 1992 2151 1919 2070 1707 1639 1318 987 996 39939
FOREIGN CORPORATION   135083 12867 12164 12473 12549 13688 16712 17934 18101 20112 20084 19121 17707 13777 15572 357944
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2339 180 113 82 100 121 131 88 58 55 56 42 39 25 20 3449
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   10012 678 668 744 696 777 939 1002 884 1049 971 928 757 504 605 21214

CHEMICAL CLASSES
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
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: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 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   54.6 52.4 52.8 51.8 53.7 54.3 53.3 53.4 52.5 51.3 51.0 51.0 49.8 51.3 50.9 53.1
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   45.4 47.6 47.2 48.2 46.3 45.7 46.7 46.6 47.5 48.7 49.0 49.0 50.2 48.7 49.1 46.9
JAPAN   16.8 22.2 22.0 20.9 19.4 18.2 18.3 17.8 17.9 17.9 18.6 19.0 20.2 18.9 18.6 18.2
GERMANY   10.4 8.4 8.2 8.5 8.1 7.7 7.8 7.2 7.5 7.6 7.6 7.9 7.9 7.4 7.2 8.8
UNITED KINGDOM   4.0 2.9 2.8 3.1 2.7 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 3.3
FRANCE   3.5 3.3 3.2 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.2 2.6 2.8 2.8 3.3
CANADA   1.5 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 1.9 2.0 1.9 2.1 1.8
SWITZERLAND   2.1 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.6
ITALY   1.4 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.3
TAIWAN   0.1 0.5 0.7 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.6 2.1 3.0 3.4 2.6 2.3 2.7 2.5 2.5 1.3
SOUTH KOREA   0.1 0.5 0.7 1.0 1.1 1.3 1.5 1.7 1.8 2.0 2.3 2.4 2.8 3.1 3.5 1.2
NETHERLANDS   1.1 1.0 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.0
BELGIUM   0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
SWEDEN   0.8 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8
AUSTRALIA   0.4 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.4
FINLAND   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4
ISRAEL   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4
DENMARK   0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4
AUSTRIA   0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
INDIA   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.2
HUNGARY   0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2
SPAIN   0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
U.S.S.R.   0.3 0.1 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 0.1
NORWAY   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
SINGAPORE   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 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
CHINA P.REP.   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.1
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
MEXICO   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
NEW ZEALAND   0.0 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
IRELAND   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
BRAZIL   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0
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 0.0
VENEZUELA   0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 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
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
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
Others (97)   0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3
PART A1- Table A1-2b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Percent of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   51.6 49.3 49.6 48.1 50.1 50.9 50.2 50.1 49.7 48.3 48.8 48.5 47.5 49.0 48.7 50.1
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1.6 1.3 1.4 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.8 0.8 1.2
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   5.0 4.6 4.7 5.3 5.2 4.8 4.9 5.0 4.5 4.5 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.2 2.9 4.6
FOREIGN CORPORATION   38.4 42.0 41.7 42.6 41.0 40.5 41.2 41.4 42.8 43.9 44.5 44.6 46.1 45.2 45.7 41.2
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0.7 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2.8 2.2 2.3 2.5 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.0 1.7 1.8 2.4

CHEMICAL CLASSES
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
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: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   407542 31469 36192 46375 38174 45249 42967 46200 47740 47784 41356 25116 9883 2181 85 868313
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   221588 16914 19525 26097 19601 23860 22384 23841 24230 23494 20108 12841 5164 1233 49 460929
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   185954 14555 16667 20278 18573 21389 20583 22359 23510 24290 21248 12275 4719 948 36 407384
JAPAN   70991 6222 6878 7736 7499 8478 7681 8013 9018 9583 8272 4939 1890 421 12 157633
GERMANY   40976 2610 2845 3461 2995 3456 3191 3618 3677 3871 3393 1701 541 106 7 76448
UNITED KINGDOM   15554 973 1081 1460 1201 1391 1256 1395 1380 1371 1103 495 136 26 4 28826
FRANCE   14267 989 1186 1603 1267 1505 1414 1512 1627 1416 1145 548 204 30 1 28714
CANADA   6366 593 763 999 791 886 905 997 1024 923 792 420 163 39 1 15662
SWITZERLAND   8340 451 516 560 439 526 494 488 496 531 425 225 73 11 1 13576
ITALY   5821 468 442 610 477 525 491 562 533 537 455 260 84 15 0 11280
TAIWAN   584 242 366 443 697 882 1342 1523 1014 1103 1222 950 492 96 1 10957
SOUTH KOREA   633 243 374 486 708 733 793 915 1022 1128 1312 1086 538 106 5 10082
NETHERLANDS   4362 299 281 392 367 459 404 461 488 516 383 189 66 5 1 8673
BELGIUM   2617 234 318 467 385 386 402 427 434 408 332 177 75 6 0 6668
SWEDEN   2999 200 288 372 284 384 367 372 422 420 289 133 47 6 0 6583
AUSTRALIA   1512 139 177 244 209 232 246 263 278 239 180 103 45 7 0 3874
FINLAND   1282 122 165 171 160 176 171 185 211 223 226 94 18 1 1 3206
ISRAEL   1082 118 169 208 150 175 187 234 276 278 173 88 34 14 0 3186
DENMARK   1004 123 140 275 156 249 242 258 230 258 150 66 17 6 0 3174
AUSTRIA   1284 97 133 170 133 162 148 148 171 152 151 68 17 7 0 2841
INDIA   208 22 29 37 61 99 106 114 195 287 313 195 65 5 0 1736
HUNGARY   1078 35 33 30 15 20 25 27 35 26 35 16 4 1 0 1380
SPAIN   472 51 64 85 75 91 79 68 88 110 99 57 20 9 0 1368
U.S.S.R.   1255 11 4 7 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1282
NORWAY   424 36 44 71 50 51 52 81 75 95 72 25 7 1 0 1084
SINGAPORE   34 10 24 25 58 56 72 134 172 169 158 89 49 7 0 1057
SOUTH AFRICA   464 35 42 29 34 33 44 49 48 46 37 15 6 0 0 882
CHINA P.REP.   127 30 22 41 41 41 59 59 92 108 107 73 32 6 1 839
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   11 40 56 69 92 78 78 89 78 81 66 28 14 3 0 783
MEXICO   278 15 23 20 28 20 29 24 20 30 18 15 2 2 0 524
NEW ZEALAND   126 10 25 17 23 34 34 42 49 42 30 13 1 1 0 447
IRELAND   164 17 20 21 16 21 29 25 35 30 28 16 6 0 0 428
BRAZIL   129 18 19 19 19 24 25 30 39 32 36 21 8 2 1 422
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   45 9 13 4 10 23 26 32 25 44 52 40 26 4 0 353
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   331 6 5 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350
VENEZUELA   122 15 14 17 18 24 22 19 6 12 9 4 0 0 0 282
POLAND   136 7 6 7 9 7 6 10 8 4 7 5 0 0 0 212
LUXEMBOURG   93 2 7 5 9 11 9 7 14 15 16 10 5 0 0 203
ARGENTINA   63 8 15 9 12 11 9 9 19 22 9 8 2 0 0 196
Others (97)   720 55 80 102 82 137 144 169 211 180 153 103 32 5 0 2173
PART A2- Table A2-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   208894 15784 18149 24476 18548 22507 21268 22584 23109 22494 19204 12194 4946 1176 45 435378
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6367 428 450 522 336 372 325 316 355 377 288 178 61 14 0 10389
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   20197 1609 1868 2211 1819 2162 1874 1961 1880 1642 1440 863 325 82 6 39939
FOREIGN CORPORATION   158135 12834 14739 18028 16460 19077 18524 20217 21261 22188 19644 11494 4430 881 32 357944
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2618 95 117 134 112 91 57 62 73 46 36 8 0 0 0 3449
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   11331 719 869 1004 899 1040 919 1060 1062 1037 744 379 121 28 2 21214

CHEMICAL CLASSES
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
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: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2006
    Pre 1993 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 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   54.4 53.7 53.9 56.3 51.3 52.7 52.1 51.6 50.8 49.2 48.6 51.1 52.3 56.5 57.6 53.1
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   45.6 46.3 46.1 43.7 48.7 47.3 47.9 48.4 49.2 50.8 51.4 48.9 47.7 43.5 42.4 46.9
JAPAN   17.4 19.8 19.0 16.7 19.6 18.7 17.9 17.3 18.9 20.1 20.0 19.7 19.1 19.3 14.1 18.2
GERMANY   10.1 8.3 7.9 7.5 7.8 7.6 7.4 7.8 7.7 8.1 8.2 6.8 5.5 4.9 8.2 8.8
UNITED KINGDOM   3.8 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.7 2.0 1.4 1.2 4.7 3.3
FRANCE   3.5 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.0 2.8 2.2 2.1 1.4 1.2 3.3
CANADA   1.6 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.7 1.6 1.8 1.2 1.8
SWITZERLAND   2.0 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.5 1.2 1.6
ITALY   1.4 1.5 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.0 1