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


EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts

PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
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

PART A2 -
Number of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Application

CONTACT INFORMATION -

EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
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 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008. 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 01/01/1963 and 12/31/2008. 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 patent number, 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-a and A2-a, 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-b and A2-b, 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.


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 2008, patent grant data, as distributed by year of application are approximately 98% complete for utility patent applications filed in 2000, 93% complete for applications filed in 2001, 90% complete for applications filed in 2002, 78% complete for applications filed in 2003, 60% complete for applications filed in 2004, 37% complete for applications filed in 2005, and 17% complete for applications filed in 2006; data are essentially complete for applications filed prior to 2000.


Report Printing and the Use of Spreadsheet Software

This report can be printed from an Internet browser - for such printing, optimal results are usually obtained by printing in landscape orientation with minimal margins and a small text font. Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 7, works paticularly well for printing this report using its "Shrink to Fit" option in Print Preview mode.

Additionally, a user may import this report file into spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel to facilitate printing. Such spreadsheet software also may facilitate sorting and further manipulation of the data.


EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts
PART A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
NAICS 322,323. PAPER, PRINTING AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A1-a) and by Ownership Category (Table A1-b)

Table A1-a, Breakout by Country of Origin
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   38 38 62 61 72 74 58 84 115 110 94 122 107 137 115 132 95 160 143 122 126 159 161 188 184 192 245 258 238 244 230 220 230 236 266 297 325 289 393 375 331 291 226 174 193 182 8192
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   38 38 62 61 72 74 58 84 115 110 94 122 107 137 115 132 95 160 143 122 126 159 161 188 184 192 245 258 238 244 230 220 230 236 266 297 325 289 393 375 331 291 226 174 193 182 8192
GERMANY   12 18 24 20 20 17 14 26 35 33 28 36 28 39 37 44 40 48 49 42 40 59 70 63 75 73 64 85 74 90 89 71 73 77 81 105 116 90 142 125 132 114 66 73 71 66 2794
UNITED KINGDOM   8 7 10 13 17 24 17 17 29 17 23 29 25 30 29 28 17 38 28 21 24 36 23 31 34 39 55 52 43 42 43 36 41 28 56 41 39 42 44 36 39 28 25 16 25 19 1364
SWEDEN   10 3 7 9 21 13 10 20 19 25 14 24 27 24 25 28 13 30 27 23 16 16 19 28 27 24 26 28 24 23 17 21 30 28 31 42 54 58 69 78 55 46 51 25 44 34 1286
FRANCE   3 5 8 9 6 10 6 9 14 13 16 14 13 12 15 12 13 19 19 12 11 18 15 25 17 25 37 30 27 37 23 31 33 32 24 28 33 28 37 32 30 23 18 13 11 14 880
FINLAND   0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 4 0 2 3 6 2 6 5 13 5 1 7 6 12 13 7 10 13 22 19 16 15 13 12 24 34 28 25 24 40 48 34 39 30 22 14 24 601
ITALY   2 1 5 4 1 4 4 3 5 7 2 5 2 9 2 3 0 6 6 6 8 8 3 12 14 9 15 13 13 9 11 10 7 13 7 14 16 16 17 20 16 12 12 11 14 10 387
BELGIUM   0 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 4 4 3 10 0 3 0 2 3 5 8 10 6 4 4 3 7 8 15 14 17 19 18 22 13 14 16 11 19 10 5 10 8 8 6 6 329
NETHERLANDS   1 1 5 2 0 2 2 1 7 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 4 0 3 7 3 1 4 4 2 4 14 11 14 3 5 10 3 6 9 9 14 10 8 9 8 10 10 1 3 4 238
AUSTRIA   0 1 0 1 3 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 9 3 4 6 4 4 3 2 5 9 4 6 8 8 3 6 3 2 2 4 133
DENMARK   2 0 0 0 2 1 2 6 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 1 0 5 2 4 2 1 2 2 3 3 1 4 5 3 2 3 3 4 0 5 4 7 1 2 1 0 0 95
SPAIN   0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 2 0 6 1 3 1 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 45
IRELAND   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6
GREECE   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 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
POLAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
BULGARIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   3 5 3 13 4 6 5 1 12 10 7 11 6 9 8 8 6 10 9 12 16 17 10 22 12 13 17 14 16 21 16 22 17 18 24 44 41 33 40 43 65 35 21 19 27 23 794
U.S. 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 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
FOREIGN CORPORATION   19 17 41 27 49 48 32 61 84 82 71 82 80 107 88 108 73 116 112 80 94 127 119 132 135 153 190 213 193 202 188 170 193 197 214 223 246 233 329 313 254 239 199 148 153 152 6386
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 4 1 3 1 2 0 0 2 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   16 16 17 21 18 20 21 22 19 18 16 29 21 21 18 15 16 32 22 27 16 13 28 33 34 25 36 31 27 19 23 25 19 21 27 29 38 22 23 19 12 17 6 7 13 7 975

EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts
PART A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
NAICS 322,323. PAPER, PRINTING AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

Number of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application,
Breakout by Country of Origin (Table A2-a) and by Ownership Category (Table A2-b)

Table A2-a, Breakout by Country of Origin
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   223 51 58 66 68 86 89 110 94 105 95 123 112 123 125 162 146 133 141 151 145 173 180 185 224 250 243 232 238 230 248 287 334 315 402 323 350 382 426 366 221 100 55 17 5 0 8192
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   223 51 58 66 68 86 89 110 94 105 95 123 112 123 125 162 146 133 141 151 145 173 180 185 224 250 243 232 238 230 248 287 334 315 402 323 350 382 426 366 221 100 55 17 5 0 8192
GERMANY   80 13 18 18 15 26 27 35 24 27 31 37 35 39 41 55 54 42 50 57 56 57 79 69 64 71 82 76 96 78 76 89 115 92 142 117 147 146 156 120 72 35 21 11 3 0 2794
UNITED KINGDOM   46 10 16 15 20 20 23 19 18 35 22 20 27 27 29 34 25 31 21 25 25 41 23 40 42 53 61 44 27 47 41 43 54 43 45 35 41 39 53 44 24 5 9 1 1 0 1364
SWEDEN   33 11 10 17 14 16 22 18 20 15 21 29 27 24 20 27 31 21 24 16 16 16 30 22 31 26 22 18 22 20 31 42 45 50 74 59 57 55 94 67 41 23 8 1 0 0 1286
FRANCE   25 11 8 7 7 5 10 18 10 13 9 16 8 18 15 17 17 15 15 20 11 23 19 20 39 34 24 29 30 31 44 29 30 34 44 23 31 40 20 32 14 9 3 2 1 0 880
FINLAND   1 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 2 3 2 4 4 2 9 11 7 0 4 10 7 14 7 13 13 16 17 17 24 13 16 30 25 36 32 33 30 49 47 57 30 10 0 0 0 0 601
ITALY   12 1 3 4 3 6 2 5 7 4 2 4 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 9 7 12 11 9 12 12 14 9 12 12 6 10 14 20 19 20 9 19 23 16 14 8 4 2 0 0 387
BELGIUM   5 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 5 2 4 7 3 2 1 4 0 4 12 7 7 4 3 5 5 7 10 21 14 12 20 22 27 13 17 10 16 9 9 10 15 5 2 0 0 0 329
NETHERLANDS   10 0 0 2 3 5 3 5 4 5 1 3 2 3 3 3 0 6 4 1 8 2 3 3 7 17 8 6 7 6 7 7 9 11 15 12 8 9 11 11 5 1 2 0 0 0 238
AUSTRIA   4 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 3 5 7 2 7 4 4 2 2 10 10 5 4 5 7 4 5 4 3 4 0 0 0 133
DENMARK   3 5 0 0 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 3 3 2 2 2 3 1 2 0 4 4 2 1 1 4 3 5 3 3 6 3 3 4 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 95
SPAIN   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 0 3 1 7 2 0 1 1 0 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 45
IRELAND   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
LUXEMBOURG   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
GREECE   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 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
POLAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ROMANIA   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   25 5 3 4 6 1 10 12 8 9 3 10 5 7 10 14 7 14 17 10 19 17 14 13 11 16 17 18 16 16 22 23 37 29 57 39 39 59 55 37 29 15 12 4 0 0 794
U.S. 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 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
FOREIGN CORPORATION   123 31 40 45 40 66 66 76 68 82 68 93 90 96 97 115 108 89 110 123 95 131 137 141 178 200 203 190 194 185 207 231 267 255 308 257 293 303 353 312 180 84 39 12 5 0 6386
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 2 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   74 15 14 17 22 19 13 22 18 14 24 20 17 18 17 32 30 26 13 16 31 21 29 30 32 34 23 20 25 28 16 33 29 30 37 25 18 20 18 17 12 1 4 1 0 0 975

EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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