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U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

Patenting By Geographic Region (State and Country),
Breakout By Technology Class

Count of 2006 - 2010 Utility Patent Grants
As Distributed By Calendar Year of Grant

- Explanation of Data -

Rank Ordered Listing of Technology Classes Receiving 1 or More Utility Patents During the Period
Originating From

CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.

( patent origin is determined by the residence of the first-named inventor )
( technology class is determined by the primary classification assigned to a patent- see 'Explanation of Data' )
( some classes have been combined together under a single class identifier )

The following table displays technology classes and counts of utility patents classified in them; patents are distributed either by year of patent grant or by year of patent application.
Class Class Title 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total
424 Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions (includes Class 514) 11 22 14 14 10 71
362 Illumination 16 13 8 10 20 67
435 Chemistry: Molecular Biology and Microbiology 11 11 9 12 16 59
370 Multiplex Communications 18 6 2 3 9 38
438 Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: Process 11 5 8 3 7 34
532 Organic Compounds (includes Classes 532-570) 3 2 10 12 6 33
446 Amusement Devices: Toys 6 8 5 4 9 32
439 Electrical Connectors 3 10 8 4 4 29
360 Dynamic Magnetic Information Storage or Retrieval 6 5 7 2 7 27
402 Binder Device Releasably Engaging Aperture or Notch of Sheet 1 5 3 6 12 27
257 Active Solid-State Devices (e.g., Transistors, Solid-State Diodes) 5 2 6 5 8 26
029 Metal Working 1 8 4 5 7 25
315 Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices: Systems 5 6 4 5 5 25
323 Electricity: Power Supply or Regulation Systems 3 6 2 5 9 25
345 Computer Graphics Processing and Selective Visual Display Systems 8 3 3 5 6 25
099 Foods and Beverages: Apparatus 7 2 6 5 4 24
310 Electrical Generator or Motor Structure 5 7 1 5 6 24
340 Communications: Electrical 3 3 7 2 9 24
385 Optical Waveguides 2 6 5 3 7 23
455 Telecommunications 8 7 4 1 3 23
073 Measuring and Testing 3 3 0 7 7 20
241 Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration 4 4 1 6 5 20
070 Locks 5 3 5 2 4 19
343 Communications: Radio Wave Antennas 2 3 3 6 4 18
015 Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning 3 4 1 3 6 17
030 Cutlery 2 2 5 3 5 17
280 Land Vehicles 1 7 8 0 1 17
200 Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers 2 3 5 1 5 16
206 Special Receptacle or Package 2 2 2 2 8 16
359 Optical: Systems and Elements 1 1 4 5 5 16
361 Electricity: Electrical Systems and Devices 1 6 1 5 3 16
156 Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture 1 5 0 4 5 15
250 Radiant Energy 2 1 3 5 4 15
327 Miscellaneous Active Electrical Nonlinear Devices, Circuits, and Systems 2 2 6 1 3 14
351 Optics: Eye Examining, Vision Testing and Correcting 0 4 2 2 6 14
428 Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles 4 3 3 1 3 14
473 Games Using Tangible Projectile 3 2 1 2 6 14
128 Surgery (includes Class 600) 2 3 4 2 2 13
341 Coded Data Generation or Conversion 1 2 4 2 4 13
368 Horology: Time Measuring Systems or Devices 2 5 1 3 2 13
382 Image Analysis 2 0 3 2 6 13
228 Metal Fusion Bonding 1 1 2 0 8 12
248 Supports (e.g., for holding articles, etc.) 2 2 4 4 0 12
363 Electric Power Conversion Systems 3 1 5 3 0 12
081 Tools 6 0 3 0 2 11
219 Electric Heating 5 2 3 0 1 11
320 Electricity: Battery or Capacitor Charging or Discharging 0 2 3 4 2 11
324 Electricity: Measuring and Testing 2 1 1 5 2 11
356 Optics: Measuring and Testing 0 1 2 3 5 11
375 Pulse or Digital Communications 1 2 0 2 6 11
450 Foundation Garments 2 2 2 2 2 10
530 Chemistry: Natural Resins or Derivatives; Peptides or Proteins; Lignins or Reaction Products Thereof 2 2 2 1 3 10
096 Gas Separation: Apparatus 1 3 2 2 1 9
135 Tent, Canopy, Umbrella, or Cane 2 2 2 2 1 9
313 Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices 0 2 5 0 2 9
330 Amplifiers 1 2 1 3 2 9
427 Coating Processes 2 0 1 3 3 9
235 Registers (e.g., cash registers, calculators, devices for counting movements of devices, etc.) 2 1 0 2 3 8
318 Electricity: Motive Power Systems 0 1 3 1 3 8
331 Oscillators 0 1 2 2 3 8
347 Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information 0 5 1 0 2 8
520 Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers (includes Classes 520-528) 1 3 1 1 2 8
704 DP: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, and Audio Compression/Decompression (Data Processing) 0 4 1 2 1 8
707 DP: Database and File Management or Data Structures (Data Processing) 2 1 0 2 3 8
033 Geometrical Instruments 2 1 2 0 2 7
083 Cutting 0 2 0 1 4 7
132 Toilet 3 2 1 0 1 7
174 Electricity: Conductors and Insulators 3 1 1 0 2 7
349 Liquid Crystal Cells, Elements and Systems 2 1 1 2 1 7
379 Telephonic Communications 3 2 1 1 0 7
709 Multicomputer Data Transferring (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 1 2 0 2 2 7
055 Gas Separation 0 0 2 3 1 6
084 Music 0 0 4 2 0 6
223 Apparel Apparatus 1 0 1 2 2 6
307 Electrical Transmission or Interconnection Systems 1 1 3 1 0 6
336 Inductor Devices 1 2 0 1 2 6
392 Electric Resistance Heating Devices 1 2 0 0 3 6
425 Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus 1 1 3 1 0 6
451 Abrading 2 0 1 1 2 6
482 Exercise Devices 0 1 0 2 3 6
702 DP: Measuring, Calibrating, or Testing (Data Processing) 2 0 0 2 2 6
004 Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons 1 1 1 0 2 5
005 Beds 2 0 1 0 2 5
024 Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, Etc. 1 2 1 1 0 5
036 Boots, Shoes, and Leggings 1 1 1 0 2 5
119 Animal Husbandry 2 0 0 3 0 5
148 Metal Treatment 0 1 1 0 3 5
173 Tool Driving or Impacting 2 2 1 0 0 5
210 Liquid Purification or Separation 0 0 1 1 3 5
252 Compositions 2 0 0 1 2 5
264 Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes 0 1 0 1 3 5
297 Chairs and Seats 1 2 1 1 0 5
326 Electronic Digital Logic Circuitry 0 1 1 2 1 5
365 Static Information Storage and Retrieval 0 0 0 2 3 5
380 Cryptography 2 0 0 1 2 5
381 Electrical Audio Signal Processing Systems and Devices 1 0 2 1 1 5
396 Photography 1 3 1 0 0 5
431 Combustion 1 2 1 0 1 5
502 Catalyst, Solid Sorbent, or Support Therefor: Product or Process of Making 3 0 0 1 1 5
604 Surgery (Medicators and Receptors) 0 0 1 1 3 5
700 DP: Generic Control Systems or Specific Applications (Data Processing) 1 1 2 1 0 5
705 DP: Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination (Data Processing) 2 2 0 0 1 5
038 Textiles: Ironing or Smoothing 1 0 1 0 2 4
040 Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting 2 0 1 1 0 4
211 Supports: Racks 2 2 0 0 0 4
220 Receptacles 2 0 1 0 1 4
290 Prime-Mover Dynamo Plants 0 1 1 0 2 4
333 Wave Transmission Lines and Networks 1 0 0 2 1 4
348 Television 0 1 0 2 1 4
366 Agitating (e.g., of articles and materials) 1 0 1 1 1 4
374 Thermal Measuring and Testing 1 0 1 0 2 4
398 Optical Communications 1 0 1 1 1 4
401 Coating Implements with Material Supply 0 1 2 1 0 4
423 Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds 0 1 0 2 1 4
429 Chemistry: Electrical Current Producing Apparatus, Product, and Process 0 3 1 0 0 4
713 Support (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 0 1 2 1 0 4
720 Dynamic Optical Information Storage or Retrieval 0 2 1 1 0 4
725 Interactive Video Distribution Systems 1 0 0 3 0 4
800 Multicellular Living Organisms and Unmodified Parts Thereof and Related Processes 0 1 2 0 1 4
002 Apparel 2 0 0 1 0 3
052 Static Structures (e.g., Buildings) 1 0 0 0 2 3
060 Power Plants 1 0 1 1 0 3
062 Refrigeration 0 2 0 1 0 3
112 Sewing 0 0 1 0 2 3
118 Coating Apparatus 0 1 1 0 1 3
222 Dispensing (apparatus and process) 0 1 1 0 1 3
242 Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding 1 2 0 0 0 3
244 Aeronautics and Astronautics 1 0 1 0 1 3
273 Amusement Devices: Games 1 1 0 0 1 3
294 Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements 0 1 1 1 0 3
358 Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing 0 0 0 1 2 3
367 Communications, Electrical: Acoustic Wave Systems and Devices 0 2 1 0 0 3
422 Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting, Deodorizing, Preserving, or Sterilizing 1 2 0 0 0 3
426 Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products 1 2 0 0 0 3
430 Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or Product Thereof 1 0 1 1 0 3
441 Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices 0 1 1 1 0 3
442 Fabric (Woven, Knitted, or Nonwoven Textile or Cloth, Etc.) 1 0 0 1 1 3
601 Surgery: Kinesitherapy 0 0 0 1 2 3
703 DP: Structural Design, Modeling, Simulation, and Emulation (Data Processing) 1 1 0 0 1 3
043 Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying 0 1 1 0 0 2
047 Plant Husbandry 1 0 0 0 1 2
057 Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining 1 0 0 0 1 2
095 Gas Separation: Processes 0 0 0 0 2 2
100 Presses 0 2 0 0 0 2
114 Ships 2 0 0 0 0 2
124 Mechanical Guns and Projectors 0 0 0 1 1 2
134 Cleaning and Liquid Contact with Solids 1 0 0 0 1 2
144 Woodworking 0 1 1 0 0 2
165 Heat Exchange 0 0 1 0 1 2
181 Acoustics 0 1 1 0 0 2
188 Brakes 0 0 1 0 1 2
191 Electricity: Transmission To Vehicles 0 0 0 2 0 2
209 Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids 0 0 1 0 1 2
216 Etching a Substrate: Processes 1 0 0 1 0 2
227 Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus 0 0 1 0 1 2
239 Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing 2 0 0 0 0 2
285 Pipe Joints or Couplings 0 1 0 1 0 2
338 Electrical Resistors 0 0 0 1 1 2
353 Optics: Image Projectors 1 0 0 1 0 2
369 Dynamic Information Storage or Retrieval 0 1 1 0 0 2
372 Coherent Light Generators 0 2 0 0 0 2
386 Motion Video Signal Processing for Recording or Reproducing 0 0 0 1 1 2
404 Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus 0 0 1 0 1 2
408 Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool 0 0 0 1 1 2
417 Pumps 0 1 0 1 0 2
434 Education and Demonstration 1 1 0 0 0 2
436 Chemistry: Analytical and Immunological Testing 1 0 1 0 0 2
606 Surgery (instruments) 0 1 0 0 1 2
701 DP: Vehicles, Navigation, and Relative Location (Data Processing) 0 0 0 1 1 2
706 DP: Artificial Intelligence (Data Processing) 0 1 0 1 0 2
708 Arithmetic Processing and Calculating (Electrical Computers) 0 1 1 0 0 2
710 Input/Output (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 1 0 0 1 0 2
716 Computer-Aided Design and Analysis of Circuits and Semiconductor Masks 0 0 1 1 0 2
717 DP: Software Development, Installation, and Management (Data Processing) 0 1 0 0 1 2
001 ** Classification Undetermined ** 0 1 0 0 0 1
008 Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles and Fibers 0 0 1 0 0 1
012 Boot and Shoe Making 0 1 0 0 0 1
016 Miscellaneous Hardware 0 1 0 0 0 1
034 Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact with Solids 1 0 0 0 0 1
044 Fuel and Related Compositions 0 0 0 0 1 1
053 Package Making 0 1 0 0 0 1
054 Harness for Working Animal 0 0 1 0 0 1
063 Jewelry 0 0 0 0 1 1
091 Motors: Expansible Chamber Type 0 0 0 0 1 1
092 Expansible Chamber Devices 0 0 0 1 0 1
102 Ammunition and Explosives 1 0 0 0 0 1
105 Railway Rolling Stock 0 0 0 0 1 1
106 Compositions: Coating or Plastic 0 1 0 0 0 1
108 Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces 0 0 0 0 1 1
123 Internal-Combustion Engines 0 0 1 0 0 1
125 Stone Working 0 0 0 0 1 1
131 Tobacco 0 0 0 0 1 1
137 Fluid Handling 0 0 0 0 1 1
139 Textiles: Weaving 0 0 0 1 0 1
150 Purses, Wallets, and Protective Covers 0 0 0 0 1 1
175 Boring or Penetrating the Earth 0 0 1 0 0 1
180 Motor Vehicles 1 0 0 0 0 1
192 Clutches and Power-Stop Control 1 0 0 0 0 1
204 Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy 0 0 1 0 0 1
205 Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein, and Methods of Preparing the Compositions 0 0 1 0 0 1
224 Package and Article Carriers 1 0 0 0 0 1
225 Severing by Tearing or Breaking 0 0 0 0 1 1
229 Envelopes, Wrappers, and Paperboard Boxes 0 0 0 1 0 1
236 Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation 1 0 0 0 0 1
238 Railways: Surface Track 1 0 0 0 0 1
249 Static Molds 0 1 0 0 0 1
254 Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force 1 0 0 0 0 1
269 Work Holders 0 0 0 1 0 1
292 Closure Fasteners 0 0 1 0 0 1
293 Vehicle Fenders 0 0 1 0 0 1
312 Supports: Cabinet Structure 0 1 0 0 0 1
337 Electricity: Electrothermally or Thermally Actuated Switches 0 0 1 0 0 1
383 Flexible Bags 0 0 1 0 0 1
384 Bearings 0 1 0 0 0 1
403 Joints and Connections 0 1 0 0 0 1
405 Hydraulic and Earth Engineering 0 1 0 0 0 1
409 Gear Cutting, Milling, or Planing 0 1 0 0 0 1
410 Freight Accommodation On Freight Carrier 0 0 0 1 0 1
414 Material or Article Handling 0 0 1 0 0 1
415 Rotary Kinetic Fluid Motors or Pumps 0 1 0 0 0 1
419 Powder Metallurgy Processes 1 0 0 0 0 1
432 Heating 0 1 0 0 0 1
440 Marine Propulsion 1 0 0 0 0 1
463 Amusement Devices: Games 0 0 0 0 1 1
472 Amusement Devices 0 0 1 0 0 1
475 Planetary Gear Transmission Systems or Components 0 0 0 1 0 1
501 Compositions: Ceramic 1 0 0 0 0 1
504 Plant Protecting and Regulating Compositions 0 0 1 0 0 1
505 Superconductor Technology: Apparatus, Material, Process 0 0 0 1 0 1
506 Combinatorial Chemistry Technology: Method, Library, Apparatus 0 0 0 1 0 1
516 Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents, Subcombinations Thereof, Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting 0 0 0 0 1 1
607 Surgery: Light, Thermal, and Electrical Application 0 1 0 0 0 1
623 Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts Thereof, or Aids and Accessories Therefor 1 0 0 0 0 1
711 Memory (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 1 0 0 0 0 1
712 Processing Architectures and Instruction Processing, e.g., Processors (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 0 0 1 0 0 1
714 Error Detection/Correction and Fault Detection/Recovery 0 0 1 0 0 1
715 DP: Presentation Processing of Document, Operator Interface Processing, and Screen Saver Display Processing (Data Processing) 0 0 0 0 1 1
718 Virtual Machine Task or Process Management or Task Management/Control (Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems) 0 0 0 1 0 1
726 Information Security 0 0 0 1 0 1
ALL ALL CLASSES 308 338 311 305 429 1691


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