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Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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 1 or More Patents Granted During the Period, As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant and/or As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

CONTACT INFORMATION -

Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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):
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 1 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. Currently, completion percentages restricted to statutory invention registrations and defensive publications are not available.

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Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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   1767 117 121 109 78 62 60 104 76 49 36 20 23 32 29 2683
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1572 105 111 94 65 56 56 96 72 49 35 19 23 28 26 2407
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   195 12 10 15 13 6 4 8 4 0 1 1 0 4 3 276
JAPAN   98 9 7 12 7 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140
UNITED KINGDOM   55 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 62
CANADA   11 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
GERMANY   10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
NETHERLANDS   7 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10
FRANCE   4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
SWITZERLAND   3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
AUSTRALIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
SOUTH AFRICA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
BELGIUM   0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
INDIA   2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ITALY   2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
AUSTRIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ISRAEL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
SWEDEN   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Others (0)   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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   381 34 35 40 29 26 28 65 44 27 25 7 10 8 14 773
U.S. GOVERNMENT   817 49 51 37 22 10 14 25 24 19 7 12 11 18 10 1126
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   398 24 25 19 18 19 13 10 4 3 2 0 0 2 2 539
FOREIGN CORPORATION   104 9 5 7 3 6 3 3 3 0 2 0 2 3 2 152
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   67 1 5 6 6 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 93

Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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   89.0 89.7 91.7 86.2 83.3 90.3 93.3 92.3 94.7 100.0 97.2 95.0 100.0 87.5 89.7 89.7
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   11.0 10.3 8.3 13.8 16.7 9.7 6.7 7.7 5.3 0.0 2.8 5.0 0.0 12.5 10.3 10.3
JAPAN   5.5 7.7 5.8 11.0 9.0 4.8 3.3 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2
UNITED KINGDOM   3.1 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.1 3.4 2.3
CANADA   0.6 0.9 0.8 0.0 1.3 1.6 0.0 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
GERMANY   0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
NETHERLANDS   0.4 0.0 0.0 0.9 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.4 0.4
FRANCE   0.2 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
SWITZERLAND   0.2 0.0 0.8 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
AUSTRALIA   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.1 0.0 0.1
SOUTH AFRICA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 1.0 0.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.4 0.1
BELGIUM   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 0.0 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
INDIA   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
ITALY   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
AUSTRIA   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 3.1 0.0 0.0
CZECH REPUBLIC   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 3.1 0.0 0.0
INDONESIA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ISRAEL   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
SWEDEN   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
TAIWAN   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Others (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 0.0
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   21.6 29.1 28.9 36.7 37.2 41.9 46.7 62.5 57.9 55.1 69.4 35.0 43.5 25.0 48.3 28.8
U.S. GOVERNMENT   46.2 41.9 42.1 33.9 28.2 16.1 23.3 24.0 31.6 38.8 19.4 60.0 47.8 56.3 34.5 42.0
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   22.5 20.5 20.7 17.4 23.1 30.6 21.7 9.6 5.3 6.1 5.6 0.0 0.0 6.3 6.9 20.1
FOREIGN CORPORATION   5.9 7.7 4.1 6.4 3.8 9.7 5.0 2.9 3.9 0.0 5.6 0.0 8.7 9.4 6.9 5.7
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   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
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3.8 0.9 4.1 5.5 7.7 1.6 3.3 1.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 3.1 3.4 3.5

Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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   2072 80 90 72 91 113 46 33 22 30 18 10 4 1 1 2683
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1847 68 80 65 82 110 44 32 21 29 16 8 4 1 0 2407
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   225 12 10 7 9 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 276
JAPAN   119 9 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140
UNITED KINGDOM   57 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 62
CANADA   14 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
GERMANY   10 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
NETHERLANDS   8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10
FRANCE   6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
SWITZERLAND   3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
AUSTRALIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
SOUTH AFRICA   0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
BELGIUM   0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
INDIA   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ITALY   2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
AUSTRIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
INDONESIA   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ISRAEL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
SWEDEN   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Others (0)   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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   481 30 29 33 46 76 26 18 9 13 4 4 3 1 0 773
U.S. GOVERNMENT   943 24 26 23 21 23 14 14 10 13 12 3 0 0 0 1126
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   452 16 26 9 18 10 3 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 539
FOREIGN CORPORATION   120 5 5 5 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 152
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   76 5 4 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 93

Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications 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   89.1 85.0 88.9 90.3 90.1 97.3 95.7 97.0 95.5 96.7 88.9 80.0 100.0 100.0 0.0 89.7
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   10.9 15.0 11.1 9.7 9.9 2.7 4.3 3.0 4.5 3.3 11.1 20.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 10.3
JAPAN   5.7 11.3 4.4 5.6 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.2
UNITED KINGDOM   2.8 0.0 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.8 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.3
CANADA   0.7 0.0 0.0 1.4 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
GERMANY   0.5 0.0 1.1 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
NETHERLANDS   0.4 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.4
FRANCE   0.3 0.0 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
SWITZERLAND   0.1 2.5 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
AUSTRALIA   0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
SOUTH AFRICA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.9 0.0 0.0 4.5 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
BELGIUM   0.0 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
INDIA   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
ITALY   0.1 0.0 1.1 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
AUSTRIA   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
CZECH REPUBLIC   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
INDONESIA   0.0 0.0 1.1 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
ISRAEL   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
SWEDEN   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
TAIWAN   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Others (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 0.0
PART A2- Table A2-2b, Breakout by Ownership Category
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
U.S. CORPORATION   23.2 37.5 32.2 45.8 50.5 67.3 56.5 54.5 40.9 43.3 22.2 40.0 75.0 100.0 0.0 28.8
U.S. GOVERNMENT   45.5 30.0 28.9 31.9 23.1 20.4 30.4 42.4 45.5 43.3 66.7 30.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.0
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   21.8 20.0 28.9 12.5 19.8 8.8 6.5 0.0 9.1 3.3 0.0 10.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 20.1
FOREIGN CORPORATION   5.8 6.3 5.6 6.9 4.4 3.5 2.2 3.0 4.5 6.7 11.1 20.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.7
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   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
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3.7 6.3 4.4 2.8 2.2 0.0 4.3 0.0 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 3.5

Statutory Invention Registrations and Defensive Publications Report
PARTS A1, A2, B
Granted: 01/01/1977 - 12/31/2007
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report

Part B

Ranked List of Organizations with 1 or More Patents Granted During the Period,
as Distributed Either or Both
by the Year of Patent Grant and by the Year Of Patent Application Filing

PART B -
Ranked List of Organizations with 1 or More Patents, as Distributed by
the Year of Patent Grant and/or the Year Of Patent Application Filing
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
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ARMY Patents By Year of Grant: 346 17 20 18 2 1 3 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 416
Patents By Year of Application: 391 10 2 6 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 416
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NAVY Patents By Year of Grant: 192 19 20 14 14 5 10 13 12 9 7 4 4 12 4 339
Patents By Year of Application: 244 10 19 8 16 13 6 7 5 1 8 2 0 0 0 339
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AIR FORCE Patents By Year of Grant: 106 7 6 5 5 3 1 7 6 8 0 7 7 6 6 180
Patents By Year of Application: 124 3 5 7 2 8 4 6 4 12 4 1 0 0 0 180
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Patents By Year of Grant: 133 6 5 0 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 150
Patents By Year of Application: 144 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150
SHELL OIL COMPANY Patents By Year of Grant: 52 12 12 13 5 5 5 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 112
Patents By Year of Application: 89 6 5 7 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 112
CATERPILLAR INC. Patents By Year of Grant: 31 1 3 0 0 0 3 15 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 61
Patents By Year of Application: 34 1 0 0 2 20 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61
AT&T CORP. Patents By Year of Grant: 38 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 41
Patents By Year of Application: 39 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY Patents By Year of Grant: 24 2 2 1 2 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 39
Patents By Year of Application: 28 2 0 2 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39
FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD Patents By Year of Grant: 26 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36
Patents By Year of Application: 33 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY Patents By Year of Grant: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28
Patents By Year of Application: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION Patents By Year of Grant: 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27
Patents By Year of Application: 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27
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