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Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

All Patents, All Types Report

PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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 Patents, All Types Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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"), design patents, plant patents, reissue patents, statutory invention registrations, defensive publications
granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during the period 01/01/1977 - 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 01/01/1977 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 Patents, All Types Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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: 01/01/1977 - 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   1382827 113704 113955 121805 124147 163205 169145 176083 184046 184424 187047 181320 157741 196437 182930 3638816
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   787044 64345 64510 69419 69923 90697 94089 97011 98655 97125 98589 94129 82586 102267 93691 2004080
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   595783 49359 49445 52386 54224 72508 75056 79072 85391 87299 88458 87191 75155 94170 89239 1634736
JAPAN   237160 23517 22871 24059 24191 32118 32514 32922 34890 36339 37248 37032 31834 39411 35942 682048
GERMANY   115181 6989 6874 7125 7292 9582 9895 10824 11894 11957 12140 11367 9575 10889 10012 251596
UNITED KINGDOM   45026 2472 2685 2676 2906 3729 3904 4092 4358 4202 4037 3905 3560 4329 4031 95912
FRANCE   43739 2985 3010 3016 3202 3991 4097 4173 4456 4421 4126 3686 3106 3856 3720 95584
TAIWAN   7394 1814 2087 2419 2597 3805 4526 5806 6545 6730 6676 7207 5993 7920 7491 79010
CANADA   26928 2380 2447 2638 2817 3537 3678 3925 4063 3857 3894 3781 3177 4094 3970 75186
SOUTH KOREA   2805 1008 1240 1567 1965 3362 3679 3472 3763 4009 4132 4671 4591 6509 7264 54037
ITALY   18096 1361 1242 1385 1417 1821 1686 1967 1978 1962 2022 1946 1591 1899 1836 42209
SWITZERLAND   21851 1244 1187 1192 1179 1374 1390 1458 1557 1532 1433 1405 1106 1388 1280 40576
SWEDEN   14641 800 914 971 970 1346 1542 1738 1933 1824 1629 1388 1189 1360 1278 33523
NETHERLANDS   14113 998 894 886 895 1382 1396 1410 1494 1681 1570 1537 1200 1647 1596 32699
AUSTRALIA   6944 564 548 566 568 830 832 860 1032 992 1049 1093 1032 1538 1546 19994
ISRAEL   3487 388 432 525 577 820 792 836 1031 1108 1260 1092 976 1325 1219 15868
BELGIUM   5016 392 419 516 561 755 718 756 796 801 727 678 577 720 624 14056
FINLAND   3657 341 387 453 468 629 695 649 769 856 944 954 751 1005 943 13501
AUSTRIA   5509 316 359 387 393 408 505 537 632 559 639 575 492 626 553 12490
DENMARK   3403 313 314 334 432 500 588 509 556 559 611 530 473 546 511 10179
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1607 220 248 247 261 373 413 548 621 589 681 641 596 753 756 8554
SPAIN   1842 172 168 187 193 308 265 318 340 358 358 312 318 381 363 5883
CHINA P.REP.   342 48 63 48 66 88 99 162 265 390 424 597 565 970 1235 5362
NORWAY   1857 130 138 150 157 232 246 266 282 261 279 255 242 272 286 5053
SINGAPORE   202 59 61 97 100 136 152 242 304 421 460 485 377 469 451 4016
U.S.S.R.   3802 57 12 16 4 6 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3902
INDIA   253 28 38 37 48 94 114 131 180 267 356 376 403 506 578 3409
SOUTH AFRICA   1625 109 127 116 114 132 127 125 137 123 131 115 108 127 116 3332
NEW ZEALAND   955 54 60 78 109 145 134 136 160 173 165 192 143 173 165 2842
IRELAND   577 49 55 86 76 78 100 137 164 142 182 197 169 198 161 2371
HUNGARY   1648 48 51 43 25 52 39 38 61 48 72 52 48 49 55 2329
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 38 99 118 112 194 185 185 239 203 203 173 154 176 193 2275
BRAZIL   569 61 70 69 67 88 98 113 125 112 180 161 98 148 118 2077
MEXICO   704 52 45 46 57 77 94 100 87 105 93 102 95 88 88 1833
LUXEMBOURG   512 44 34 27 42 46 35 55 48 52 53 55 49 49 66 1167
ARGENTINA   351 37 32 32 38 46 46 63 58 58 70 50 29 47 53 1010
MALAYSIA   80 16 8 24 29 35 34 47 56 62 63 93 98 131 173 949
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   755 20 15 9 10 9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 823
VENEZUELA   276 28 31 30 26 29 39 32 28 32 20 23 10 15 17 636
Others (136)   2873 207 180 211 260 351 391 439 489 513 531 465 430 556 549 8445
PART A1- Table A1-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   589232 48751 49052 53542 55305 72358 75932 78825 82079 81110 82803 80000 70942 88180 81127 1589238
U.S. GOVERNMENT   19441 1310 1083 961 974 1040 1000 960 985 945 891 859 713 815 738 32715
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   211892 16527 16813 17415 16285 20764 20540 20352 18840 17497 16901 15182 12785 15256 13774 450823
FOREIGN CORPORATION   480927 41539 41350 44189 45641 61423 64225 68057 74028 76855 78686 78571 67952 85839 81531 1390813
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   6556 300 250 260 278 258 164 108 97 115 89 81 58 60 76 8750
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   74779 5277 5407 5438 5664 7362 7284 7781 8017 7902 7677 6627 5291 6287 5684 166477

All Patents, All Types Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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: 01/01/1977 - 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   56.9 56.6 56.6 57.0 56.3 55.6 55.6 55.1 53.6 52.7 52.7 51.9 52.4 52.1 51.2 55.1
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   43.1 43.4 43.4 43.0 43.7 44.4 44.4 44.9 46.4 47.3 47.3 48.1 47.6 47.9 48.8 44.9
JAPAN   17.2 20.7 20.1 19.8 19.5 19.7 19.2 18.7 19.0 19.7 19.9 20.4 20.2 20.1 19.6 18.7
GERMANY   8.3 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.9 5.9 5.9 6.1 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.3 6.1 5.5 5.5 6.9
UNITED KINGDOM   3.3 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.6
FRANCE   3.2 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.6
TAIWAN   0.5 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.1 2.3 2.7 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.6 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.1 2.2
CANADA   1.9 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.1
SOUTH KOREA   0.2 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.6 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.6 2.9 3.3 4.0 1.5
ITALY   1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.2
SWITZERLAND   1.6 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.1
SWEDEN   1.1 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.9
NETHERLANDS   1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9
AUSTRALIA   0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.5
ISRAEL   0.3 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
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
FINLAND   0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4
AUSTRIA   0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
DENMARK   0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 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
CHINA P.REP.   0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.1
NORWAY   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1
SINGAPORE   0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1
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 0.1
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
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
NEW ZEALAND   0.1 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
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
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
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
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 0.1
MEXICO   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
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
MALAYSIA   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 0.1 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 0.0 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 (136)   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 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: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   42.6 42.9 43.0 44.0 44.5 44.3 44.9 44.8 44.6 44.0 44.3 44.1 45.0 44.9 44.3 43.7
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.9
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   15.3 14.5 14.8 14.3 13.1 12.7 12.1 11.6 10.2 9.5 9.0 8.4 8.1 7.8 7.5 12.4
FOREIGN CORPORATION   34.8 36.5 36.3 36.3 36.8 37.6 38.0 38.7 40.2 41.7 42.1 43.3 43.1 43.7 44.6 38.2
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   5.4 4.6 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.1 3.7 3.4 3.2 3.1 4.6

All Patents, All Types Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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: 01/01/1977 - 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   1591344 135189 157235 158307 183893 183120 194642 207406 213493 207393 174927 127716 74216 27720 2215 3638816
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   904900 76504 90360 86958 101450 100906 105956 110869 109703 105850 90551 65911 38269 14568 1325 2004080
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   686444 58685 66875 71349 82443 82214 88686 96537 103790 101543 84376 61805 35947 13152 890 1634736
JAPAN   280569 27147 30215 32094 37048 34584 35493 40051 43597 40462 34866 25623 15089 4920 290 682048
GERMANY   127617 7952 8961 9210 10819 10882 12681 13364 14291 14454 10343 6532 3312 1112 66 251596
UNITED KINGDOM   50019 3174 3721 3667 4216 4342 4740 4832 5069 4850 3481 2040 1242 487 32 95912
FRANCE   49421 3417 4009 3822 4383 4258 4742 5056 4887 4599 3369 2063 1100 424 34 95584
TAIWAN   9919 2345 2806 3518 4196 5338 6675 6246 7186 8212 8287 7404 4756 1969 153 79010
CANADA   31223 2901 3547 3458 3998 4206 4281 4503 4395 4325 3597 2610 1534 562 46 75186
SOUTH KOREA   4802 1700 2180 3593 3936 4084 3827 4391 4852 5693 5988 5062 2873 1010 46 54037
ITALY   20474 1486 1696 1692 1883 1843 2015 2124 2341 2273 1905 1334 778 346 19 42209
SWITZERLAND   24066 1335 1437 1320 1465 1487 1579 1691 1789 1680 1269 783 441 216 18 40576
SWEDEN   16273 1114 1242 1288 1853 1931 1960 2043 1927 1702 1095 612 301 165 17 33523
NETHERLANDS   15887 1053 1186 1352 1573 1423 1569 1766 1932 1838 1339 1071 489 207 14 32699
AUSTRALIA   8076 635 748 829 848 1038 1055 1274 1217 1379 1075 1030 533 236 21 19994
ISRAEL   4306 656 740 746 886 999 1309 1461 1532 1307 858 551 377 130 10 15868
BELGIUM   5773 550 750 752 754 790 850 843 863 847 636 353 199 89 7 14056
FINLAND   4356 501 563 720 787 767 1009 1187 1218 1077 681 389 169 73 4 13501
AUSTRIA   6119 418 478 424 495 561 615 639 708 812 578 372 186 80 5 12490
DENMARK   3957 393 570 471 557 614 623 611 765 637 483 274 165 57 2 10179
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1990 239 267 351 331 458 558 617 758 742 756 697 508 251 31 8554
SPAIN   2143 219 234 274 306 308 319 386 468 408 362 240 171 45 0 5883
CHINA P.REP.   452 52 68 83 107 136 226 380 573 691 665 856 654 371 48 5362
NORWAY   2118 157 204 220 253 244 324 333 366 375 218 130 77 31 3 5053
SINGAPORE   316 103 107 147 191 245 375 470 516 547 384 349 193 65 8 4016
U.S.S.R.   3876 10 9 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3902
INDIA   320 42 54 88 127 142 206 332 472 582 520 325 163 35 1 3409
SOUTH AFRICA   1851 141 112 130 122 140 142 142 169 151 103 74 45 10 0 3332
NEW ZEALAND   1065 111 107 133 169 134 150 208 221 200 178 80 58 28 0 2842
IRELAND   676 107 82 87 114 174 145 203 221 233 141 101 69 14 4 2371
HUNGARY   1743 45 51 38 38 54 56 73 68 80 44 17 18 3 1 2329
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   128 130 149 189 199 196 255 248 251 213 166 98 45 7 1 2275
BRAZIL   678 99 71 89 99 108 128 138 146 201 166 89 39 24 2 2077
MEXICO   791 57 54 80 100 100 101 103 127 87 105 61 45 19 3 1833
LUXEMBOURG   569 43 31 40 60 43 47 57 63 75 54 46 19 20 0 1167
ARGENTINA   417 39 37 50 46 63 51 70 78 53 39 33 18 16 0 1010
MALAYSIA   102 20 31 44 45 30 58 68 96 95 141 124 65 28 2 949
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   792 11 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 823
VENEZUELA   333 28 27 28 35 32 36 31 33 25 7 9 8 4 0 636
Others (136)   3227 255 321 314 397 458 486 596 595 638 477 373 208 98 2 8445
PART A2- Table A2-1b, Breakout by Ownership Category
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2007
    Pre 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   681045 59289 72650 70408 83119 83402 88402 93516 93931 89973 75974 54168 30852 11470 1039 1589238
U.S. GOVERNMENT   22008 1117 1209 954 987 948 860 999 1006 915 782 543 305 77 5 32715
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   239577 18952 19756 18946 20830 19421 19486 19146 17514 17645 15741 12403 7824 3284 298 450823
FOREIGN CORPORATION   557908 49444 56973 60925 71359 72013 77659 85166 92580 90506 75814 55954 32168 11572 772 1390813
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   7077 294 298 249 171 115 112 133 91 95 60 45 8 2 0 8750
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   83729 6093 6349 6825 7427 7221 8123 8446 8371 8259 6556 4603 3059 1315 101 166477

All Patents, All Types Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 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: 01/01/1977 - 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   56.9 56.6 57.5 54.9 55.2 55.1 54.4 53.5 51.4 51.0 51.8 51.6 51.6 52.6 59.8 55.1
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   43.1 43.4 42.5 45.1 44.8 44.9 45.6 46.5 48.6 49.0 48.2 48.4 48.4 47.4 40.2 44.9
JAPAN   17.6 20.1 19.2 20.3 20.1 18.9 18.2 19.3 20.4 19.5 19.9 20.1 20.3 17.7 13.1 18.7
GERMANY   8.0 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.5 6.4 6.7 7.0 5.9 5.1 4.5 4.0 3.0 6.9
UNITED KINGDOM   3.1 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.0 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.4 2.6
FRANCE   3.1 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.2 1.9 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5 2.6
TAIWAN   0.6 1.7 1.8 2.2 2.3 2.9 3.4 3.0 3.4 4.0 4.7 5.8 6.4 7.1 6.9 2.2
CANADA   2.0 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.1 2.1
SOUTH KOREA   0.3 1.3 1.4 2.3 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.1 2.3 2.7 3.4 4.0 3.9 3.6 2.1 1.5
ITALY   1.3 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.2 0.9 1.2
SWITZERLAND   1.5 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 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 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9
NETHERLANDS   1.0 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.9
AUSTRALIA   0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.9 0.5
ISRAEL   0.3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4
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 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4
FINLAND   0.3 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 0.2 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 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3
DENMARK   0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.9 1.4 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 0.0 0.2
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