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Design Patent Counts By Ownership Location (State/Country) and Year
(December 2015)

Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2015
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


Description of the Report

This report counts documents of the following type(s):
Design patents (i.e., patents for ornamental designs for articles of manufacture)
granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during the period 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2015. These profiled documents hereafter will be referred to as "patents".

This report displays the number of U.S. patent grants, as distributed by ownership location (state/territory and country) and by calendar year of grant.

A patent's ownership location is determined by the location of the first-named assigned owner listed on the patent grant. If no assigned owner is listed on the patent, ownership is presumed to be retained by the inventor(s) and the ownership location is determined by the residence of the first-named inventor.

Please note that for some patents, when the specific regional location of the owner is not listed, ownership location has been placed in a broader "U.S.,Unspecified Region" or "Unknown Foreign Country" regional category.

Regional names that appear in this report do not imply any expression of opinion by USPTO about the preferred name or the legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities.

The source of the data used for this report is the TAF database maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant
Breakout by Ownership Location (State/Country)

PART A1- Table A1-1a, Breakout by Ownership Location (State/Country)
Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2015
    Pre 2002 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Ownership Locations   209268 15451 16574 15695 12951 20965 24062 25565 23116 22799 21356 21951 23468 23657 25986 502864
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Ownership Location   144376 9471 10164 9334 7710 11861 13781 14209 12520 12894 12125 12789 13630 13743 14601 313208
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Ownership Location   64892 5980 6410 6361 5241 9104 10281 11356 10596 9905 9231 9162 9838 9914 11385 189656
ALABAMA   945 32 52 28 39 57 56 60 54 81 60 60 68 52 40 1684
ALASKA   138 8 7 9 1 9 8 9 16 6 6 18 12 5 6 258
ARIZONA   1615 103 102 97 102 148 228 254 159 168 148 133 168 121 185 3731
ARKANSAS   606 24 24 28 26 39 53 45 62 70 47 55 60 50 60 1249
CALIFORNIA   24318 1976 1952 1699 1452 2214 2338 2446 2197 2377 2263 2243 2645 2805 3037 55962
COLORADO   2257 179 172 155 114 189 197 211 227 276 291 294 362 392 420 5736
CONNECTICUT   3997 203 218 167 187 253 273 222 243 239 215 167 196 199 210 6989
DELAWARE   1504 215 214 228 158 269 238 324 210 155 140 115 115 120 98 4103
FLORIDA   5744 400 535 462 382 560 629 721 667 730 729 805 791 833 827 14815
GEORGIA   2252 191 156 147 149 193 258 284 292 270 261 298 282 250 377 5660
HAWAII   249 8 15 9 7 13 16 21 13 17 24 23 19 19 35 488
IDAHO   359 28 38 21 11 34 20 36 34 52 38 34 31 30 35 801
ILLINOIS   10577 536 773 684 615 896 899 848 753 749 776 640 691 707 844 20988
INDIANA   2818 256 189 163 87 328 175 194 150 155 225 237 255 193 216 5641
IOWA   1148 66 59 97 87 72 75 93 48 43 37 52 48 42 51 2018
KANSAS   948 68 52 71 41 65 81 62 65 92 88 74 54 67 65 1893
KENTUCKY   708 56 48 35 23 52 69 70 91 42 44 60 60 66 61 1485
LOUISIANA   616 33 42 36 23 36 34 59 51 53 51 57 45 52 46 1234
MAINE   307 11 14 2 8 10 12 18 9 10 11 9 7 5 13 446
MARYLAND   1501 73 56 70 38 77 87 84 93 116 70 86 106 125 98 2680
MASSACHUSETTS   4415 226 256 204 162 270 319 358 296 310 332 369 375 344 446 8682
MICHIGAN   5156 381 410 432 395 514 767 842 788 586 481 480 590 562 632 13016
MINNESOTA   4218 212 278 229 148 302 368 331 321 433 392 448 508 475 454 9117
MISSISSIPPI   374 18 24 20 9 13 30 16 14 25 21 16 17 21 21 639
MISSOURI   2397 136 139 138 117 149 242 250 233 203 180 201 187 222 223 5017
MONTANA   243 12 3 11 16 12 13 17 17 13 16 13 9 25 16 436
NEBRASKA   470 42 53 75 40 75 105 65 102 108 78 115 64 61 47 1500
NEVADA   711 71 83 79 66 89 101 92 95 99 89 86 133 141 107 2042
NEW HAMPSHIRE   547 35 57 50 31 51 58 33 54 50 59 41 49 51 69 1235
NEW JERSEY   6334 377 421 374 302 421 502 544 520 578 449 467 552 487 442 12770
NEW MEXICO   270 15 11 12 5 9 14 16 26 20 28 20 22 18 28 514
NEW YORK   14251 737 702 715 576 778 876 1021 819 922 744 875 847 868 938 25669
NORTH CAROLINA   2886 292 237 220 195 233 239 303 264 239 265 272 305 333 271 6554
NORTH DAKOTA   123 3 1 8 3 7 11 7 12 4 8 2 4 4 5 202
OHIO   9102 631 756 569 447 729 930 1006 774 801 789 800 674 670 775 19453
OKLAHOMA   1274 44 41 36 21 34 55 56 38 63 41 53 54 51 59 1920
OREGON   3054 183 149 208 169 375 347 334 190 231 295 331 457 417 349 7089
PENNSYLVANIA   4758 281 331 290 207 328 488 405 332 452 384 355 342 348 334 9635
RHODE ISLAND   1052 68 60 59 56 65 88 64 64 73 40 76 62 70 43 1940
SOUTH CAROLINA   840 90 103 66 67 105 109 82 84 55 104 87 63 67 71 1993
SOUTH DAKOTA   160 11 6 6 1 14 36 4 12 20 10 16 7 13 15 331
TENNESSEE   1739 168 177 199 122 134 149 163 95 93 118 150 101 107 138 3653
TEXAS   5514 272 335 341 284 479 602 531 528 482 456 610 626 671 654 12385
UTAH   939 62 72 95 81 102 112 76 82 125 144 154 179 157 187 2567
VERMONT   307 5 11 13 9 11 14 26 28 23 30 16 16 33 29 571
VIRGINIA   2005 137 137 133 115 159 186 231 226 174 176 128 148 117 177 4249
WASHINGTON   2722 182 218 202 185 337 660 614 546 512 444 560 697 719 673 9271
WEST VIRGINIA   217 11 2 7 6 6 10 16 5 11 17 7 8 1 4 328
WISCONSIN   3627 235 329 300 289 491 519 582 454 422 347 503 454 492 542 9586
WYOMING   208 8 9 3 2 6 7 7 3 8 14 5 16 10 11 317
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA   150 10 4 4 3 4 9 9 8 18 8 16 14 10 22 289
GUAM   10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 14
PUERTO RICO   81 6 1 0 7 3 1 3 5 4 1 4 1 3 7 127
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS   6 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 12
U.S. UNSPECIFIED REGION   1609 43 29 28 24 42 67 43 49 36 41 53 33 41 86 2224
JAPAN   20439 1398 1573 1596 1411 2442 2429 2808 2446 1986 1935 1965 2169 2026 1937 48560
TAIWAN   6866 1242 1412 1363 915 1811 1469 1511 1204 1440 1115 956 1009 902 837 24052
GERMANY   4807 514 538 491 465 755 804 963 1170 1007 841 1045 967 993 1016 16376
KOREA, SOUTH   1124 201 175 220 228 578 1030 1208 871 772 902 852 1091 1638 2306 13196
CANADA   5889 406 418 376 257 462 490 490 516 554 648 604 649 575 596 12930
UNITED KINGDOM   3544 221 236 295 243 454 452 547 546 488 435 426 477 423 561 9348
FRANCE   3615 318 179 240 197 330 378 422 440 436 314 337 310 274 340 8130
SWITZERLAND   2994 257 260 211 188 280 428 455 406 458 382 349 334 269 475 7746
ITALY   2636 154 194 220 190 301 399 425 360 344 340 284 325 286 321 6779
CHINA, HONG KONG S.A.R.   2658 248 319 296 237 349 411 351 267 286 238 310 201 201 190 6562
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   197 165 135 134 159 205 349 500 359 388 395 446 536 532 692 5192
SWEDEN   2655 133 109 85 67 98 167 166 190 192 174 179 179 182 230 4806
AUSTRALIA   1813 107 109 115 88 166 233 242 266 245 254 226 253 265 250 4632
NETHERLANDS   864 121 151 87 100 160 215 182 200 193 253 191 259 174 260 3410
FINLAND   655 84 141 108 61 77 113 186 329 141 113 98 83 153 128 2470
DENMARK   363 29 36 32 30 28 52 108 99 122 76 97 146 132 153 1503
ISRAEL   362 49 33 38 36 48 53 87 81 79 83 73 91 96 116 1325
AUSTRIA   300 29 36 31 16 29 64 63 152 108 128 97 78 76 74 1281
SPAIN   404 38 43 24 39 77 79 85 81 54 67 69 43 51 72 1226
BELGIUM   276 19 20 17 33 52 57 32 39 31 33 61 55 36 55 816
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS   71 32 21 38 20 36 39 49 52 46 46 74 78 62 106 770
NEW ZEALAND   273 26 17 23 10 31 35 43 43 30 39 44 31 40 49 734
NORWAY   302 19 15 12 22 26 36 24 30 44 50 25 36 39 38 718
SINGAPORE   84 9 11 13 21 33 38 31 46 29 34 27 53 55 56 540
BRAZIL   81 15 54 50 18 18 17 30 37 38 38 32 27 24 58 537
LIECHTENSTEIN   137 1 1 5 6 10 19 22 94 61 35 34 36 17 36 514
MEXICO   127 9 9 14 7 5 21 16 16 7 23 32 36 43 29 394
SOUTH AFRICA   132 7 8 13 11 8 26 23 30 20 15 11 19 26 29 378
IRELAND   92 10 9 17 14 17 16 28 21 25 10 17 23 18 30 347
LUXEMBOURG   41 1 4 6 1 7 13 23 4 16 31 26 23 49 41 286
INDIA   15 1 6 7 13 16 18 25 24 35 16 17 20 26 21 260
BARBADOS   11 5 6 12 19 22 34 18 10 26 7 9 19 17 26 241
THAILAND   77 14 11 5 9 7 7 16 13 10 14 4 14 15 9 225
CAYMAN ISLANDS   11 20 11 24 7 6 21 20 9 21 12 12 26 11 9 220
BERMUDA   40 3 39 21 14 24 24 4 8 9 5 3 9 10 6 219
MAURITIUS   0 0 2 20 15 21 108 15 27 7 3 0 0 0 1 219
MALAYSIA   52 7 12 9 9 12 9 9 8 12 14 6 4 3 3 169
POLAND   7 2 1 2 1 2 7 14 6 14 21 17 16 19 23 152
TURKEY   6 2 5 7 2 9 4 15 17 16 10 5 7 10 17 132
THE BAHAMAS   18 2 13 17 4 9 4 3 8 11 3 2 3 4 11 112
INDONESIA   38 8 3 16 12 17 7 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 108
PORTUGAL   31 0 1 0 3 3 2 20 4 3 3 7 10 6 8 101
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   13 3 0 3 1 8 7 3 3 9 7 4 12 3 16 92
ARGENTINA   37 3 6 3 2 5 6 7 3 2 1 1 4 2 5 87
CZECH REPUBLIC   31 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 0 7 5 12 10 76
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES   61 2 1 1 2 2 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 76
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   1 0 0 0 0 11 27 1 5 24 5 1 0 0 0 75
ICELAND   5 1 1 0 2 4 0 7 3 9 12 8 4 8 5 69
VENEZUELA   33 2 1 4 0 2 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 8 61
HUNGARY   14 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 2 5 3 5 5 11 3 56
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES   4 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 3 13 18 50
SLOVENIA   15 0 0 1 1 1 6 0 5 3 6 4 0 3 4 49
CYPRUS   7 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 6 7 2 4 9 48
GREECE   6 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 2 5 2 8 5 4 7 44
U.S.S.R.   43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
COLOMBIA   7 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 8 4 4 5 5 42
YUGOSLAVIA / SERBIA-MONTENEGRO   36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36
MONACO   17 4 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 31
SEYCHELLES   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 7 15 31
CHILE   7 1 1 1 2 0 1 5 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 30
SRI LANKA   9 14 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 30
MALTA   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 5 25
ISLE OF MAN   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 1 1 6 23
ESTONIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 3 5 22
PHILIPPINES   8 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 22
LITHUANIA   3 3 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 20
ANDORRA   13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 19
COOK ISLANDS   2 0 1 0 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 18
SLOVAKIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 1 1 1 5 2 18
BULGARIA   1 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 17
KUWAIT   8 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 16
IRAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 1 4 15
CHINA, MACAU S.A.R.   1 1 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 14
PANAMA   3 0 1 0 0 1 6 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 14
CROATIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 13
ECUADOR   7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 12
GUATEMALA   4 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 12
SAUDI ARABIA   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 2 12
COSTA RICA   3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 11
PERU   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 11
VANUATU   1 3 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
GIBRALTAR   9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10
JERSEY   2 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC   3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 9
PAKISTAN   1 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 8
LEBANON   2 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 8
VIET NAM   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 8
SAMOA   0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
KENYA   1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
LATVIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 6
EGYPT   2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5
QATAR   0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 5
ROMANIA   0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 5
UKRAINE   0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
ANGUILLA   0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 4
CURACAO   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4
EL SALVADOR   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4
GREENLAND   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
LIBERIA   3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
OMAN   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 4
ARMENIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3
BELARUS   1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
BELIZE   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
JAMAICA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
MARSHALL ISLANDS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3
MOROCCO   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
SAN MARINO   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
URUGUAY   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
GUERNSEY   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
JORDAN   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
SENEGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
SERBIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
ZIMBABWE   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
ALBANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
ANGOLA   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ARUBA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
BAHRAIN   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
FRENCH POLYNESIA   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
GUADELOUPE   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
HAITI   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
KAZAKHSTAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
MACEDONIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
MAURITANIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MOLDOVA   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MONTENEGRO   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
NAMIBIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
NEW CALEDONIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
NORFOLK ISLAND   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
PALAU   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
SAINT BARTHELEMY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
SOLOMON ISLANDS   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TUNISIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
UNKNOWN FOREIGN COUNTRY   310 7 6 15 4 5 6 3 6 5 3 5 7 6 4 392

Patent Counts By Ownership Location (State/Country) and Year - Design Patents (December 2015)
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2015
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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