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Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 311. FOOD

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   15318 559 571 636 516 610 880 877 831 715 644 552 309 367 304 228 23917
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   10741 363 370 404 328 364 516 546 499 409 374 292 176 210 179 130 15901
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   4577 196 201 232 188 246 364 331 332 306 270 260 133 157 125 98 8016
JAPAN   1321 64 53 64 53 57 98 97 72 74 57 76 34 49 31 23 2223
GERMANY   621 20 19 31 13 28 37 22 51 35 17 29 17 12 8 8 968
UNITED KINGDOM   478 18 26 17 23 21 27 18 22 25 31 18 10 9 10 6 759
NETHERLANDS   297 19 25 15 14 26 32 36 23 28 19 20 11 12 13 11 601
FRANCE   343 15 11 14 19 25 30 19 17 24 26 17 13 10 6 7 596
SWITZERLAND   333 10 15 14 15 13 35 30 28 14 20 10 6 4 3 3 553
CANADA   298 8 16 6 9 11 18 14 14 12 21 14 7 8 4 4 464
SWEDEN   148 8 5 7 7 9 8 9 12 6 8 4 0 1 2 0 234
ITALY   123 6 7 8 2 7 13 10 16 6 10 7 4 1 6 7 233
DENMARK   78 1 3 9 11 5 11 16 7 17 11 5 10 11 11 3 209
AUSTRALIA   100 7 6 5 2 5 5 8 6 9 3 4 0 2 4 1 167
BELGIUM   58 2 0 7 4 3 6 10 5 5 4 4 1 6 5 5 125
FINLAND   43 2 0 7 1 5 10 5 7 8 7 10 2 2 0 1 110
ISRAEL   29 1 1 4 2 2 4 11 5 6 0 6 2 2 2 1 78
KOREA, SOUTH   12 1 3 4 1 7 3 5 8 6 4 4 4 6 3 4 75
SPAIN   27 4 1 1 3 1 6 2 7 3 5 2 0 4 1 3 70
AUSTRIA   37 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 55
NORWAY   22 1 1 0 1 2 5 2 1 5 5 4 1 3 0 0 53
MEXICO   27 2 1 3 1 1 2 0 3 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 46
NEW ZEALAND   18 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 5 2 2 1 0 4 1 0 40
HUNGARY   26 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30
INDIA   3 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 3 5 3 4 3 3 29
TAIWAN   5 1 1 2 0 3 0 2 2 0 3 4 1 1 2 1 28
IRELAND   10 1 2 3 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 27
U.S.S.R.   24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24
ARGENTINA   10 1 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 23
SOUTH AFRICA   12 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 22
SINGAPORE   1 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 1 16
BRAZIL   4 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 15
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 0 1 2 0 15
HONDURAS   4 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
MALAYSIA   2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 10
CHILE   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
POLAND   8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
PHILIPPINES   4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 7
Others (35)   39 2 2 3 0 0 4 2 5 7 4 3 1 1 2 1 76
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   8987 312 325 342 264 299 398 439 397 345 314 243 147 182 165 128 13287
U.S. GOVERNMENT   310 3 2 0 2 4 4 5 3 2 6 2 1 1 0 1 346
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1821 64 60 70 69 70 114 124 105 74 53 56 31 30 28 13 2782
FOREIGN CORPORATION   3456 158 148 191 153 204 331 275 275 259 233 221 118 136 100 77 6335
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   26 3 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 39
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   718 19 34 33 27 31 33 32 51 35 37 30 12 17 11 8 1128

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 311. FOOD

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   16393 657 712 724 818 741 904 905 821 600 410 154 68 8 2 0 23917
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   11428 411 447 417 486 453 556 511 428 342 260 105 50 6 1 0 15901
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   4965 246 265 307 332 288 348 394 393 258 150 49 18 2 1 0 8016
JAPAN   1436 60 77 69 96 76 83 91 107 68 42 14 4 0 0 0 2223
GERMANY   656 38 24 29 36 21 44 44 31 28 11 5 1 0 0 0 968
UNITED KINGDOM   518 20 29 33 20 20 21 33 35 17 9 3 0 1 0 0 759
NETHERLANDS   342 14 25 31 31 30 27 28 36 21 12 3 1 0 0 0 601
FRANCE   368 16 24 28 21 24 25 34 26 20 7 2 1 0 0 0 596
SWITZERLAND   360 14 19 21 27 26 25 22 16 13 8 2 0 0 0 0 553
CANADA   313 16 5 15 16 14 19 22 12 16 10 5 1 0 0 0 464
SWEDEN   162 9 8 8 9 7 14 8 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 234
ITALY   136 9 3 8 10 9 15 16 8 8 10 0 1 0 0 0 233
DENMARK   85 12 10 11 9 11 14 16 19 12 7 1 2 0 0 0 209
AUSTRALIA   114 4 8 6 8 3 7 9 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 167
BELGIUM   62 5 4 5 10 7 7 6 11 2 4 1 1 0 0 0 125
FINLAND   47 6 7 5 5 7 7 6 10 6 3 0 0 0 1 0 110
ISRAEL   30 3 3 2 7 4 6 6 10 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 78
KOREA, SOUTH   15 3 6 3 4 7 5 7 11 9 3 2 0 0 0 0 75
SPAIN   31 2 3 2 5 4 6 3 7 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 70
AUSTRIA   38 0 1 3 1 2 2 1 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 55
NORWAY   24 0 1 3 2 3 1 8 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 53
MEXICO   29 4 1 2 1 0 1 3 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 46
NEW ZEALAND   18 2 3 1 2 2 3 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 40
HUNGARY   29 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30
INDIA   3 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 4 8 5 2 0 0 0 0 29
TAIWAN   7 2 0 3 0 0 2 1 4 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 28
IRELAND   14 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 27
U.S.S.R.   24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24
ARGENTINA   10 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 23
SOUTH AFRICA   12 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
SINGAPORE   2 1 1 4 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16
BRAZIL   4 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 15
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   3 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
HONDURAS   4 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
MALAYSIA   2 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10
CHILE   5 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   4 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
POLAND   8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
PHILIPPINES   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Others (35)   45 1 0 0 3 4 4 8 6 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 76
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   9577 348 388 343 393 364 447 407 355 299 217 102 41 5 1 0 13287
U.S. GOVERNMENT   315 2 1 1 9 1 5 4 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 346
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1943 71 67 93 96 95 113 99 78 56 49 9 11 2 0 0 2782
FOREIGN CORPORATION   3765 199 222 250 284 259 290 338 334 215 128 36 13 1 1 0 6335
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   29 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 39
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   764 35 32 36 35 21 49 57 49 27 14 6 3 0 0 0 1128

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 312. BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   7024 206 217 226 219 260 381 365 320 340 277 265 134 182 150 103 10669
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   4616 131 133 127 129 151 203 214 198 181 152 135 62 96 91 59 6678
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   2408 75 84 99 90 109 178 151 122 159 125 130 72 86 59 44 3991
JAPAN   611 16 27 28 31 23 47 37 28 44 29 39 19 30 18 9 1036
GERMANY   353 4 8 9 6 10 16 10 18 20 11 18 7 5 5 4 504
SWITZERLAND   253 9 11 9 11 14 24 20 9 10 13 3 4 3 3 2 398
UNITED KINGDOM   230 6 8 7 13 13 15 8 10 13 15 11 7 6 2 3 367
FRANCE   181 8 4 11 7 11 17 11 6 16 9 7 4 8 3 2 305
NETHERLANDS   139 8 8 4 3 9 10 17 8 3 5 7 7 5 2 4 239
CANADA   145 7 6 3 5 7 8 6 3 7 8 4 3 3 3 1 219
ITALY   63 3 2 5 0 0 10 6 5 3 4 4 3 2 3 2 115
SWEDEN   72 2 1 2 2 5 1 3 6 4 4 3 0 0 2 1 108
DENMARK   45 0 0 5 3 3 6 6 4 10 5 2 7 5 5 1 107
AUSTRALIA   58 2 1 1 1 1 3 3 1 3 1 0 0 1 3 1 80
FINLAND   31 0 0 3 1 4 5 1 4 5 2 5 1 1 0 1 64
BELGIUM   32 1 0 1 2 0 1 6 1 1 1 2 0 4 3 4 59
KOREA, SOUTH   8 1 2 2 1 2 2 4 6 3 2 4 3 1 0 1 42
ISRAEL   16 0 0 1 1 0 3 3 2 2 1 4 2 0 1 1 37
AUSTRIA   19 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 26
NORWAY   10 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 4 1 1 0 0 25
IRELAND   9 0 2 3 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 20
SPAIN   9 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 20
U.S.S.R.   20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
INDIA   2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 3 4 1 4 0 1 19
NEW ZEALAND   11 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 19
HUNGARY   17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18
BRAZIL   5 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 14
SOUTH AFRICA   8 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 14
MEXICO   10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13
ARGENTINA   6 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 12
TAIWAN   3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 11
SINGAPORE   0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 10
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
POLAND   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5
CHILE   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
PHILIPPINES   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3
Others (25)   23 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 36
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   3877 103 106 105 96 118 147 176 154 149 134 103 51 75 75 57 5526
U.S. GOVERNMENT   145 0 1 0 1 2 2 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 158
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   691 25 32 26 34 31 48 36 42 34 23 33 13 16 20 5 1109
FOREIGN CORPORATION   1920 68 67 88 77 99 168 142 110 139 107 117 65 85 49 36 3337
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   16 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   375 9 10 7 11 9 16 7 14 18 12 11 5 5 6 4 519

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 312. BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   7422 261 299 291 355 302 387 383 380 287 198 62 34 6 2 0 10669
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   4853 159 168 156 185 168 244 211 194 142 127 44 23 3 1 0 6678
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   2569 102 131 135 170 134 143 172 186 145 71 18 11 3 1 0 3991
JAPAN   654 30 38 32 43 35 29 55 48 43 19 6 3 1 0 0 1036
GERMANY   362 15 9 10 18 9 14 24 18 15 6 4 0 0 0 0 504
SWITZERLAND   275 9 14 18 22 15 10 9 11 7 7 0 1 0 0 0 398
UNITED KINGDOM   246 6 15 16 13 9 12 14 20 11 4 1 0 0 0 0 367
FRANCE   196 6 13 11 14 12 17 12 9 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 305
NETHERLANDS   157 4 6 10 11 11 13 4 9 10 3 1 0 0 0 0 239
CANADA   152 10 4 11 6 7 6 4 6 7 5 0 1 0 0 0 219
ITALY   68 5 0 1 7 6 7 7 4 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 115
SWEDEN   75 1 6 3 2 1 8 6 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 108
DENMARK   47 3 4 8 6 5 6 6 11 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 107
AUSTRALIA   61 1 3 1 5 0 2 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 80
FINLAND   32 3 5 2 1 5 2 3 6 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 64
BELGIUM   33 1 2 3 5 2 2 2 5 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 59
KOREA, SOUTH   11 1 3 0 3 7 2 4 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 42
ISRAEL   16 0 2 0 4 1 2 2 6 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 37
AUSTRIA   19 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 26
NORWAY   11 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 25
IRELAND   12 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20
SPAIN   11 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 20
U.S.S.R.   20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
INDIA   2 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 3 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 19
NEW ZEALAND   12 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19
HUNGARY   17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 18
BRAZIL   6 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 14
SOUTH AFRICA   8 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
MEXICO   10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 13
ARGENTINA   6 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
TAIWAN   5 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 11
SINGAPORE   1 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
POLAND   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
MALAYSIA   1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5
CHILE   2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
PHILIPPINES   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Others (25)   24 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 36
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   4059 129 132 122 147 133 206 160 157 123 99 39 16 3 1 0 5526
U.S. GOVERNMENT   147 2 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 158
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   743 36 36 37 34 30 40 47 40 29 22 6 7 2 0 0 1109
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2066 84 115 120 158 130 121 160 167 124 68 15 7 1 1 0 3337
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   17 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   390 9 15 12 11 9 19 16 15 9 8 2 4 0 0 0 519

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   42168 1863 1935 2096 2258 2773 2950 2703 2658 2496 2510 2295 1829 1806 1513 1497 75350
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   28576 1165 1197 1355 1444 1725 1897 1721 1618 1484 1526 1369 1134 1147 896 916 49170
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   13592 698 738 741 814 1048 1053 982 1040 1012 984 926 695 659 617 581 26180
JAPAN   3956 311 311 287 359 408 367 361 357 385 407 362 253 248 233 201 8806
GERMANY   3142 95 131 124 122 148 166 132 154 139 152 133 86 87 82 75 4968
UNITED KINGDOM   1465 38 34 34 45 55 62 51 64 43 53 46 34 39 32 31 2126
FRANCE   1040 38 39 40 30 64 69 64 61 52 47 39 35 34 30 24 1706
CANADA   797 41 42 53 65 66 63 64 64 67 49 38 34 43 38 28 1552
SWITZERLAND   991 26 24 26 21 25 32 13 24 22 20 16 14 16 13 9 1292
TAIWAN   162 26 32 39 43 69 58 68 86 82 67 80 50 39 41 37 979
ITALY   390 24 14 20 23 48 35 37 37 30 21 40 35 26 19 33 832
SWEDEN   292 11 23 12 12 31 32 39 50 43 51 30 38 23 19 23 729
KOREA, SOUTH   49 16 12 15 10 21 32 38 29 27 22 37 33 25 31 39 436
NETHERLANDS   229 8 7 14 6 6 12 12 14 15 15 16 12 6 10 9 391
BELGIUM   154 15 9 12 12 14 18 15 25 21 7 13 15 12 9 10 361
AUSTRALIA   143 9 12 14 15 15 16 13 13 12 13 15 7 7 4 5 313
AUSTRIA   106 5 10 10 10 13 12 16 9 9 7 7 0 2 9 9 234
DENMARK   90 3 4 8 5 6 27 8 10 5 3 5 2 4 1 4 185
ISRAEL   59 5 3 6 11 8 10 2 9 8 10 11 7 7 7 5 168
FINLAND   63 3 4 3 4 4 6 5 1 6 3 4 2 2 3 2 115
SPAIN   64 2 5 0 3 10 4 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 5 3 114
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   16 0 5 7 1 7 5 7 3 5 4 10 8 9 9 8 104
NORWAY   50 4 1 2 3 1 1 2 5 1 4 1 2 0 0 1 78
SOUTH AFRICA   40 2 4 2 3 3 0 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 63
BRAZIL   22 1 1 4 1 2 7 5 1 6 4 0 2 1 0 3 60
NEW ZEALAND   23 1 0 2 2 5 3 1 3 3 3 2 4 1 1 1 55
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 4 5 0 4 4 7 3 10 52
MEXICO   27 2 1 0 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 0 2 2 3 1 51
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
U.S.S.R.   35 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
INDIA   15 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 1 32
IRELAND   11 2 1 2 0 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 29
ARGENTINA   13 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 23
LUXEMBOURG   11 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 21
GREECE   7 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 18
SINGAPORE   3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 17
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 1 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 15
PHILIPPINES   3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 11
THAILAND   0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 11
Others (52)   78 3 2 4 3 2 5 10 5 9 10 7 6 4 6 5 159
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   17824 688 741 833 899 1056 1167 1047 969 952 1056 957 799 757 622 644 31011
U.S. GOVERNMENT   681 16 13 8 11 9 8 4 9 3 9 1 5 8 5 7 797
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   10932 507 486 553 591 731 792 729 690 585 511 458 364 422 300 312 18963
FOREIGN CORPORATION   10087 535 587 560 607 777 787 722 788 776 779 741 550 518 477 449 19740
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   77 6 4 1 5 1 4 0 1 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 105
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2567 111 104 141 145 199 192 201 201 180 153 137 109 100 109 85 4734

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   45610 2360 2600 2787 3053 2813 2796 2833 2819 2550 2125 1589 905 396 110 4 75350
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   30702 1459 1685 1726 1941 1751 1695 1713 1624 1515 1335 1056 612 280 72 4 49170
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   14908 901 915 1061 1112 1062 1101 1120 1195 1035 790 533 293 116 38 0 26180
JAPAN   4556 362 363 437 417 397 387 420 464 380 267 184 106 54 12 0 8806
GERMANY   3339 152 145 159 175 138 170 191 168 142 97 58 22 8 4 0 4968
UNITED KINGDOM   1542 36 54 50 57 63 56 71 61 46 47 25 12 4 2 0 2126
FRANCE   1115 43 48 61 79 56 69 53 56 51 33 28 9 3 2 0 1706
CANADA   867 75 57 67 70 60 73 56 67 49 36 38 24 12 1 0 1552
SWITZERLAND   1036 32 23 22 28 28 26 21 32 14 19 3 6 0 2 0 1292
TAIWAN   199 44 40 54 60 67 80 76 91 76 77 63 34 11 7 0 979
ITALY   422 22 31 44 36 40 31 39 43 52 35 20 13 3 1 0 832
SWEDEN   323 18 24 34 48 42 53 33 59 47 24 13 10 1 0 0 729
KOREA, SOUTH   69 19 15 18 18 47 33 29 37 51 44 33 18 4 1 0 436
NETHERLANDS   243 12 9 9 15 12 18 14 24 10 17 6 2 0 0 0 391
BELGIUM   175 12 16 15 19 19 20 17 20 23 16 7 2 0 0 0 361
AUSTRALIA   163 14 19 13 16 18 9 16 16 16 8 1 2 2 0 0 313
AUSTRIA   118 11 13 13 13 13 12 6 4 13 4 6 4 2 2 0 234
DENMARK   98 7 11 6 17 14 9 4 3 6 4 1 3 2 0 0 185
ISRAEL   68 9 9 10 5 6 8 13 11 11 7 6 5 0 0 0 168
FINLAND   69 5 4 5 5 5 3 6 5 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 115
SPAIN   67 5 3 9 5 2 4 4 3 2 3 2 3 2 0 0 114
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   19 7 6 6 1 8 5 5 5 8 14 12 5 2 1 0 104
NORWAY   56 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 78
SOUTH AFRICA   44 5 2 3 0 2 1 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 63
BRAZIL   25 2 2 2 5 3 7 6 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 60
NEW ZEALAND   24 1 5 3 4 1 3 3 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 55
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   11 0 0 1 2 0 4 6 2 4 6 5 6 4 1 0 52
MEXICO   30 1 2 2 2 0 1 3 3 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 51
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
U.S.S.R.   37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
INDIA   16 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 6 4 0 0 0 0 32
IRELAND   14 0 3 3 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 29
ARGENTINA   13 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 23
LUXEMBOURG   13 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 21
GREECE   8 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18
SINGAPORE   3 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 17
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   2 0 1 3 3 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
PHILIPPINES   3 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
THAILAND   2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 11
Others (52)   82 3 4 5 6 7 6 13 5 13 4 9 1 1 0 0 159
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   19195 896 1108 1120 1274 1066 1044 1122 1066 989 884 664 381 156 45 1 31011
U.S. GOVERNMENT   707 10 12 9 7 7 7 3 9 3 6 7 9 1 0 0 797
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   11744 611 621 660 745 750 682 664 608 567 490 406 255 125 33 2 18963
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11132 672 704 830 826 795 849 852 951 816 601 400 197 87 27 1 19740
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   87 1 5 1 4 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 105
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2745 170 150 167 197 194 214 189 185 173 143 112 63 27 5 0 4734

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 321. WOOD PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   22271 866 787 906 978 1197 1247 1250 1307 1228 1062 1013 846 771 572 539 36840
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   16474 612 554 656 677 848 903 879 889 859 735 712 603 548 425 411 26785
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   5797 254 233 250 301 349 344 371 418 369 327 301 243 223 147 128 10055
CANADA   969 56 56 60 76 82 67 63 87 63 60 53 45 34 28 20 1819
GERMANY   1062 28 33 35 33 42 43 56 50 52 46 40 32 32 19 17 1620
JAPAN   715 45 37 37 49 70 58 54 64 66 45 38 31 25 19 13 1366
UNITED KINGDOM   570 11 19 10 17 30 31 40 24 28 29 22 12 11 7 5 866
FRANCE   460 15 13 11 14 8 21 19 15 20 9 14 13 11 9 7 659
SWEDEN   341 8 5 7 9 14 9 9 17 10 12 10 9 12 2 8 482
AUSTRALIA   241 23 12 10 14 12 14 20 20 12 11 16 9 18 7 6 445
TAIWAN   55 20 17 23 27 24 38 30 36 28 36 39 21 29 9 9 441
ITALY   215 10 8 6 4 11 6 12 9 16 17 15 7 8 7 10 361
SWITZERLAND   260 10 4 4 5 8 4 13 12 7 5 6 3 3 4 2 350
NETHERLANDS   155 4 6 6 7 9 5 9 8 5 5 3 6 2 0 2 232
BELGIUM   93 3 2 5 3 4 3 2 9 4 3 3 8 8 2 3 155
AUSTRIA   99 2 4 3 3 1 7 3 4 7 6 4 3 1 2 1 150
DENMARK   84 4 3 6 4 3 5 5 14 4 6 3 4 3 1 1 150
ISRAEL   37 4 2 2 4 2 5 3 8 7 8 5 8 6 4 4 109
SPAIN   54 4 1 1 3 4 3 4 4 2 4 3 5 4 6 0 102
FINLAND   41 2 0 8 6 4 4 3 3 5 4 4 2 0 3 0 89
NORWAY   64 0 1 1 5 0 3 3 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 83
KOREA, SOUTH   6 1 3 2 6 3 3 6 8 12 11 5 5 3 4 4 82
NEW ZEALAND   41 0 0 0 2 6 2 5 6 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 69
SOUTH AFRICA   47 1 3 3 0 6 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 69
MEXICO   29 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 4 0 1 0 42
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 4 6 4 3 7 33
IRELAND   14 0 1 2 0 1 3 0 2 4 1 2 0 1 0 0 31
BRAZIL   13 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 21
ARGENTINA   12 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 20
GREECE   8 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 17
VENEZUELA   9 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14
MALAYSIA   2 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 13
HUNGARY   12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 11
LUXEMBOURG   7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
U.S.S.R.   10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 8
THE BAHAMAS   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 6
COLOMBIA   3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
Others (41)   53 2 1 1 5 4 2 3 5 3 3 3 5 4 5 3 102
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   8130 275 252 299 298 390 459 438 439 429 364 339 333 301 239 214 13199
U.S. GOVERNMENT   75 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 4 1 3 2 105
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   8411 338 311 363 383 464 445 447 452 436 377 372 278 256 188 191 13712
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2982 139 117 145 173 203 195 229 266 241 196 189 147 146 93 96 5557
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2653 111 105 98 123 138 146 134 148 120 123 110 84 67 49 36 4245

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 321. WOOD PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   23799 1009 1051 1095 1282 1282 1375 1327 1269 1258 1077 575 274 131 32 4 36840
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   17541 727 748 758 914 893 960 902 868 870 806 440 224 104 26 4 26785
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   6258 282 303 337 368 389 415 425 401 388 271 135 50 27 6 0 10055
CANADA   1078 62 81 71 81 68 79 67 75 62 54 26 11 4 0 0 1819
GERMANY   1126 26 41 42 49 50 58 67 54 52 28 18 4 4 1 0 1620
JAPAN   792 44 49 73 63 64 56 67 59 49 30 13 4 2 1 0 1366
UNITED KINGDOM   597 16 23 23 29 41 26 31 37 19 19 0 4 1 0 0 866
FRANCE   490 13 11 11 17 22 21 12 19 21 15 6 1 0 0 0 659
SWEDEN   356 7 7 12 12 11 11 18 10 17 10 5 3 2 1 0 482
AUSTRALIA   274 18 8 18 16 15 19 22 14 17 15 5 4 0 0 0 445
TAIWAN   82 24 25 23 28 38 40 27 45 35 36 27 5 5 1 0 441
ITALY   229 9 6 8 9 10 11 25 14 17 13 6 2 2 0 0 361
SWITZERLAND   273 2 10 6 7 11 12 8 6 6 5 2 0 1 1 0 350
NETHERLANDS   163 11 6 5 10 6 7 10 4 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 232
BELGIUM   97 5 5 2 4 4 6 7 6 8 1 5 2 3 0 0 155
AUSTRIA   102 7 1 4 6 2 3 7 5 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 150
DENMARK   93 3 5 2 5 6 15 7 6 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 150
ISRAEL   42 5 3 3 1 5 10 6 11 12 6 1 3 1 0 0 109
SPAIN   59 0 4 5 1 4 4 5 5 7 2 3 2 1 0 0 102
FINLAND   44 6 7 4 4 4 3 4 9 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 89
NORWAY   65 4 1 1 2 4 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 83
KOREA, SOUTH   8 5 1 6 3 5 11 11 9 12 6 3 2 0 0 0 82
NEW ZEALAND   41 1 3 4 3 5 3 6 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 69
SOUTH AFRICA   52 2 0 5 3 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 69
MEXICO   29 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 42
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   3 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 6 8 7 1 1 0 0 33
IRELAND   15 2 1 0 2 2 3 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 31
BRAZIL   13 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 21
ARGENTINA   13 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20
GREECE   9 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 17
VENEZUELA   10 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
MALAYSIA   2 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 13
HUNGARY   12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
LUXEMBOURG   7 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
U.S.S.R.   10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
THE BAHAMAS   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6
COLOMBIA   3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Others (41)   55 2 3 4 5 4 5 4 1 10 8 1 0 0 0 0 102
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   8620 352 337 337 452 454 490 442 433 439 432 227 119 49 14 2 13199
U.S. GOVERNMENT   79 1 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 7 1 3 1 0 0 105
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   8996 388 415 422 463 444 478 464 435 441 382 216 104 51 12 1 13712
FOREIGN CORPORATION   3237 140 187 197 212 246 273 259 257 241 156 91 34 22 4 1 5557
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   21 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2846 128 111 138 152 136 133 159 143 135 100 40 14 8 2 0 4245

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   28645 1613 1506 1549 1766 1987 2024 1900 1944 1915 1784 1594 1226 1028 1000 902 52383
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   19439 923 870 939 1011 1182 1201 1128 1084 1049 988 861 659 559 521 461 32875
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   9206 690 636 610 755 805 823 772 860 866 796 733 567 469 479 441 19508
JAPAN   3526 369 311 286 368 388 371 343 334 377 353 345 270 225 226 186 8278
GERMANY   1392 71 73 77 81 105 116 90 142 125 132 114 66 73 71 66 2794
UNITED KINGDOM   849 36 41 28 56 41 39 42 44 36 39 28 25 16 25 19 1364
CANADA   801 47 42 38 59 47 36 54 46 38 32 25 18 26 21 26 1356
SWEDEN   620 21 30 28 31 42 54 58 69 78 55 46 51 25 44 34 1286
FRANCE   493 31 33 32 24 28 33 28 37 32 30 23 18 13 11 14 880
FINLAND   190 13 12 24 34 28 25 24 40 48 34 39 30 22 14 24 601
SWITZERLAND   282 12 15 8 13 7 15 10 18 11 9 12 11 4 6 3 436
ITALY   192 10 7 13 7 14 16 16 17 20 16 12 12 11 14 10 387
TAIWAN   74 16 12 17 19 18 28 20 21 24 20 22 9 12 8 13 333
BELGIUM   144 19 18 22 13 14 16 11 19 10 5 10 8 8 6 6 329
NETHERLANDS   124 10 3 6 9 9 14 10 8 9 8 10 10 1 3 4 238
AUSTRALIA   91 4 7 5 10 6 8 8 5 7 6 3 2 7 0 2 171
AUSTRIA   64 4 3 2 5 9 4 6 8 8 3 6 3 2 2 4 133
KOREA, SOUTH   13 4 7 4 4 7 4 13 12 5 12 11 11 7 4 10 128
ISRAEL   45 4 0 5 5 3 5 4 4 7 5 6 5 2 2 1 103
DENMARK   55 5 3 2 3 3 4 0 5 4 7 1 2 1 0 0 95
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   5 2 2 2 0 12 10 8 7 5 7 2 2 1 6 4 75
NORWAY   40 2 0 2 2 4 2 5 8 0 3 1 0 2 1 1 73
SOUTH AFRICA   43 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 65
BRAZIL   22 2 2 2 0 1 1 5 2 7 4 2 2 2 1 3 58
SPAIN   22 0 6 1 3 1 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 45
MEXICO   23 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 42
NEW ZEALAND   12 2 0 2 2 5 4 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 2 0 35
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   4 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 19
SINGAPORE   1 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 15
U.S.S.R.   12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
IRELAND   6 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
INDIA   2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 2 11
ARGENTINA   3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 10
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 10
LUXEMBOURG   5 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 8
SAUDI ARABIA   2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 7
HUNGARY   4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6
Others (34)   35 0 3 1 2 1 5 7 3 4 4 3 1 0 2 2 73
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   15052 722 682 749 834 920 955 927 914 910 860 749 556 471 460 402 26163
U.S. GOVERNMENT   146 10 13 11 6 8 6 3 6 0 2 2 1 1 0 2 217
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4715 230 212 198 210 297 277 242 217 184 175 151 128 106 93 77 7512
FOREIGN CORPORATION   7333 575 535 530 637 688 689 646 733 760 688 646 517 415 414 398 16204
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   37 4 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 46
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1362 72 63 61 78 74 97 81 73 61 59 46 23 35 33 23 2241

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   31630 1859 2048 2109 2318 1949 1944 2013 1999 1713 1332 836 419 175 37 2 52383
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   21124 1096 1209 1241 1347 1118 1112 1130 994 888 771 472 240 111 20 2 32875
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   10506 763 839 868 971 831 832 883 1005 825 561 364 179 64 17 0 19508
JAPAN   4200 362 381 417 433 385 340 370 449 346 261 192 96 37 9 0 8278
GERMANY   1528 89 115 92 142 117 147 146 156 120 72 35 21 11 3 0 2794
UNITED KINGDOM   927 43 54 43 45 35 41 39 53 44 24 5 9 1 1 0 1364
CANADA   885 51 52 56 54 41 48 40 32 32 23 31 7 4 0 0 1356
SWEDEN   670 42 45 50 74 59 57 55 94 67 41 23 8 1 0 0 1286
FRANCE   568 29 30 34 44 23 31 40 20 32 14 9 3 2 1 0 880
FINLAND   222 30 25 36 32 33 30 49 47 57 30 10 0 0 0 0 601
SWITZERLAND   309 15 12 6 14 16 25 4 16 7 6 6 0 0 0 0 436
ITALY   209 10 14 20 19 20 9 19 23 16 14 8 4 2 0 0 387
TAIWAN   96 14 23 25 21 18 19 22 30 21 20 10 9 4 1 0 333
BELGIUM   174 22 27 13 17 10 16 9 9 10 15 5 2 0 0 0 329
NETHERLANDS   137 7 9 11 15 12 8 9 11 11 5 1 2 0 0 0 238
AUSTRALIA   100 9 13 3 7 6 9 8 6 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 171
AUSTRIA   70 2 10 10 5 4 5 7 4 5 4 3 4 0 0 0 133
KOREA, SOUTH   21 7 3 8 6 8 15 13 9 19 5 4 9 1 0 0 128
ISRAEL   49 7 5 4 3 5 4 7 9 6 3 0 1 0 0 0 103
DENMARK   60 5 3 3 6 3 3 4 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 95
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   10 1 2 13 4 12 4 7 10 3 3 5 0 0 1 0 75
NORWAY   43 1 2 6 4 5 3 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 73
SOUTH AFRICA   48 3 0 3 1 2 0 1 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 65
BRAZIL   26 2 0 1 5 2 2 9 4 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 58
SPAIN   24 7 2 0 1 1 0 4 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 45
MEXICO   23 0 3 2 2 0 3 3 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 42
NEW ZEALAND   14 3 4 2 6 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 35
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   5 0 0 1 3 1 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 19
SINGAPORE   1 0 1 0 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 15
U.S.S.R.   13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
IRELAND   6 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
INDIA   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 11
ARGENTINA   4 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 10
LUXEMBOURG   5 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9
THAILAND   0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 8
SAUDI ARABIA   3 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
HUNGARY   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Others (34)   38 1 2 3 4 5 8 3 2 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 73
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   16416 838 995 1008 1118 936 932 967 862 752 649 373 203 97 16 1 26163
U.S. GOVERNMENT   168 9 11 8 4 4 5 2 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 217
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   5087 286 240 266 282 225 220 222 179 173 147 111 50 19 5 0 7512
FOREIGN CORPORATION   8438 644 725 743 818 709 710 749 893 732 494 322 157 54 15 1 16204
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   42 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1479 82 76 84 96 73 77 72 64 55 40 28 9 5 1 0 2241

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 325. CHEMICALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   362692 15750 15621 16902 19418 23288 23745 22133 23785 23616 21652 18040 14797 18462 16887 16208 652996
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   213197 8140 8001 9141 10793 12759 13100 11967 12606 12550 11478 9342 7866 9796 8849 8380 367965
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   149495 7610 7620 7761 8625 10529 10645 10166 11179 11066 10174 8698 6931 8666 8038 7828 285031
JAPAN   43682 3150 2929 2818 2890 3512 3389 3182 3468 3347 3009 2682 2090 2622 2431 2366 87567
GERMANY   38631 1515 1588 1600 1727 2057 1952 1980 2172 2133 2002 1754 1293 1583 1365 1269 64621
UNITED KINGDOM   15694 551 596 571 757 954 959 954 986 899 801 662 555 690 669 590 26888
FRANCE   12873 579 643 662 818 971 989 937 1051 1007 933 631 566 672 669 626 24627
SWITZERLAND   10958 298 285 293 314 315 337 275 332 322 256 249 203 245 206 220 15108
CANADA   4383 255 283 349 387 518 581 537 575 584 498 435 304 435 413 407 10944
ITALY   5999 315 280 298 310 332 341 331 329 338 299 235 199 258 204 240 10308
NETHERLANDS   3930 174 120 122 170 254 257 258 272 264 268 229 185 187 206 181 7077
BELGIUM   2234 130 135 174 195 245 251 236 254 287 229 208 146 206 171 151 5252
SWEDEN   1629 74 83 101 134 143 172 160 181 194 192 136 110 142 126 133 3710
KOREA, SOUTH   218 56 94 108 109 137 190 199 233 271 296 270 227 305 324 319 3356
AUSTRALIA   997 70 73 72 98 149 149 113 165 154 116 112 103 127 111 134 2743
DENMARK   749 63 73 76 120 164 195 173 189 149 177 113 108 117 111 107 2684
ISRAEL   833 50 55 87 88 126 133 123 124 164 183 114 105 154 130 149 2618
INDIA   237 13 20 18 29 58 77 88 122 178 206 179 172 202 167 176 1942
TAIWAN   173 55 51 59 67 78 119 108 145 135 117 135 117 148 133 170 1810
AUSTRIA   862 35 40 55 68 76 85 52 72 76 60 61 38 53 51 43 1727
HUNGARY   1050 29 34 27 10 19 11 18 30 25 27 23 18 18 18 31 1388
FINLAND   393 39 52 59 56 73 82 62 81 78 78 64 55 49 50 52 1323
SPAIN   394 27 33 36 43 67 59 47 49 70 65 49 50 66 64 70 1189
U.S.S.R.   1003 5 3 5 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1022
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   77 9 16 12 27 32 22 37 45 61 59 74 54 71 93 82 771
NORWAY   253 13 18 29 29 31 36 47 45 30 38 45 37 27 32 35 745
MEXICO   497 12 8 7 8 10 16 15 7 9 18 9 5 5 10 10 646
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 4 15 27 32 50 51 48 46 55 24 25 27 31 46 37 518
SOUTH AFRICA   226 8 10 11 17 11 22 14 23 23 19 16 11 11 16 18 456
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   377 3 5 2 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 395
NEW ZEALAND   66 8 3 7 10 13 24 21 16 28 25 26 14 26 19 20 326
IRELAND   114 8 6 10 12 5 10 17 15 14 17 22 17 12 10 11 300
BRAZIL   66 5 8 5 5 10 8 18 11 17 20 13 15 27 12 11 251
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   15 3 7 2 3 7 7 7 13 14 10 21 23 34 42 43 251
POLAND   128 3 4 5 6 5 10 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 6 5 195
VENEZUELA   56 10 9 8 15 16 15 9 7 7 1 7 2 3 5 5 175
ARGENTINA   62 2 5 10 6 9 3 7 8 12 10 9 4 13 6 7 173
SINGAPORE   13 2 4 4 3 11 10 9 8 4 13 12 11 23 20 17 164
GREECE   46 2 0 4 3 4 6 3 6 7 8 2 2 5 3 3 104
Others (89)   577 35 32 28 55 62 73 79 96 106 97 72 62 94 99 90 1657
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   210718 7963 7790 8898 10417 12367 12624 11704 12165 12227 11140 9094 7621 9508 8648 8239 361123
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6665 233 192 207 253 308 289 212 262 214 202 223 183 218 190 186 10037
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   11764 499 566 634 723 922 1063 841 988 839 787 577 439 484 437 354 21917
FOREIGN CORPORATION   124765 6748 6773 6817 7602 9182 9222 8923 9839 9865 9048 7787 6293 7921 7310 7180 245275
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1735 58 38 57 76 81 57 39 34 34 22 20 18 9 21 9 2308
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   7045 249 262 289 347 428 490 414 497 437 453 339 243 322 281 240 12336

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 325. CHEMICALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   394439 20462 28043 20019 23956 22402 24325 25681 26460 24918 18375 12243 7138 3475 1013 47 652996
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   230281 11243 16196 10409 12995 12100 12933 13344 13250 12274 9579 6676 4142 1967 550 26 367965
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   164158 9219 11847 9610 10961 10302 11392 12337 13210 12644 8796 5567 2996 1508 463 21 285031
JAPAN   49215 3248 3645 3316 3605 3172 3438 3715 4053 3878 2820 1827 1015 466 146 8 87567
GERMANY   41516 1808 2320 1907 2150 1964 2236 2336 2560 2469 1641 944 479 220 68 3 64621
UNITED KINGDOM   16900 752 1083 823 965 945 1028 1008 1090 1024 631 352 171 89 25 2 26888
FRANCE   14083 836 1197 848 1005 967 1042 1144 1103 958 640 407 241 119 37 0 24627
SWITZERLAND   11486 365 388 268 362 312 302 345 376 379 228 146 75 58 18 0 15108
CANADA   4965 438 674 473 518 553 612 641 572 555 362 312 156 76 34 3 10944
ITALY   6592 301 423 323 337 312 357 348 389 368 270 161 64 49 13 1 10308
NETHERLANDS   4251 160 253 215 283 249 286 309 356 297 207 125 49 21 16 0 7077
BELGIUM   2493 201 310 235 231 240 272 316 288 288 176 107 60 25 10 0 5252
SWEDEN   1820 135 224 124 172 172 194 200 222 211 127 53 37 17 2 0 3710
KOREA, SOUTH   331 130 136 140 156 209 224 327 368 460 366 251 159 85 13 1 3356
AUSTRALIA   1189 112 177 122 143 134 180 176 166 136 91 71 24 14 8 0 2743
DENMARK   906 101 210 110 185 193 198 184 226 156 102 54 36 20 3 0 2684
ISRAEL   975 110 153 111 114 122 156 196 218 157 120 87 56 39 4 0 2618
INDIA   273 26 31 52 84 89 104 183 263 308 246 168 63 43 9 0 1942
TAIWAN   260 62 84 64 110 110 130 159 127 202 178 139 91 65 27 2 1810
AUSTRIA   953 73 87 66 75 65 70 80 88 80 46 22 15 6 1 0 1727
HUNGARY   1111 27 24 14 12 23 24 32 25 42 26 17 9 0 2 0 1388
FINLAND   493 68 81 73 72 74 89 84 92 102 48 28 12 6 1 0 1323
SPAIN   454 36 62 62 66 50 45 69 90 92 66 54 27 13 3 0 1189
U.S.S.R.   1013 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1022
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   104 14 31 33 23 45 38 80 98 96 94 51 42 15 7 0 771
NORWAY   295 27 51 28 34 33 59 49 68 48 31 12 8 1 0 1 745
MEXICO   518 9 8 14 10 15 11 10 18 9 12 5 4 2 1 0 646
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   25 27 44 53 44 55 52 48 51 33 24 26 20 13 3 0 518
SOUTH AFRICA   249 17 11 12 17 18 26 27 26 26 14 8 3 1 1 0 456
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   386 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 395
NEW ZEALAND   80 13 8 17 18 23 31 35 36 26 23 6 6 2 2 0 326
IRELAND   131 13 12 7 12 22 18 20 16 20 17 6 3 3 0 0 300
BRAZIL   76 7 12 9 10 17 18 22 16 27 20 10 3 4 0 0 251
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   21 9 1 5 12 7 11 13 28 38 45 27 23 10 1 0 251
POLAND   139 5 5 7 6 1 5 5 4 7 5 2 2 2 0 0 195
VENEZUELA   74 10 14 10 17 13 9 4 6 7 3 3 4 1 0 0 175
ARGENTINA   72 10 5 9 7 6 5 14 21 7 9 5 1 2 0 0 173
SINGAPORE   16 10 8 6 10 8 12 17 18 22 13 16 5 1 2 0 164
GREECE   50 4 3 5 2 8 9 6 8 2 4 1 1 1 0 0 104
Others (89)   643 48 65 48 92 75 101 135 124 114 91 64 32 19 6 0 1657
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   227092 10835 15631 10194 12655 11836 12622 12967 12866 11987 9336 6526 4052 1952 545 27 361123
U.S. GOVERNMENT   7270 295 363 207 228 206 222 276 288 244 201 128 67 33 8 1 10037
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   12883 787 1040 766 964 897 896 916 844 722 527 336 218 97 23 1 21917
FOREIGN CORPORATION   137758 8093 10466 8377 9591 8997 10028 10973 11857 11491 8048 5085 2720 1347 426 18 245275
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1840 70 78 68 54 40 34 41 33 30 7 10 2 1 0 0 2308
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   7596 382 465 407 464 426 523 508 572 444 256 158 79 45 11 0 12336

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3251. BASIC CHEMICALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   177340 5628 5535 5415 5763 7175 7206 6487 6749 7028 6068 5330 4556 6094 5582 5759 267715
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   103341 2755 2691 2732 2873 3540 3585 3229 3191 3352 2882 2494 2139 2944 2721 2789 147258
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   73999 2873 2844 2683 2890 3635 3621 3258 3558 3676 3186 2836 2417 3150 2861 2970 120457
JAPAN   18105 1073 997 890 934 1201 1164 971 1068 1064 948 847 721 884 818 868 32553
GERMANY   20835 658 757 679 696 875 790 753 816 861 725 650 522 685 569 553 31424
UNITED KINGDOM   7501 201 195 178 216 282 288 272 267 249 214 165 162 207 215 196 10808
FRANCE   6665 246 254 247 264 332 333 300 335 337 269 192 190 234 260 239 10697
SWITZERLAND   7045 158 143 142 147 148 155 119 132 133 104 102 75 112 72 79 8866
ITALY   3033 111 91 89 113 133 114 108 93 105 79 76 86 111 67 99 4508
CANADA   2256 79 78 72 94 119 141 128 140 132 101 101 69 121 128 127 3886
NETHERLANDS   2032 85 42 47 58 79 76 87 81 74 88 72 74 71 81 76 3123
BELGIUM   932 51 42 53 39 53 52 49 65 72 46 54 41 63 46 49 1707
SWEDEN   756 32 29 30 28 28 54 31 53 46 59 37 27 43 28 39 1320
KOREA, SOUTH   94 17 37 47 37 52 82 79 93 104 98 78 79 106 106 118 1227
INDIA   132 5 10 10 16 30 34 40 47 96 93 99 78 99 81 95 965
DENMARK   356 13 12 21 32 46 59 56 59 53 64 33 34 44 33 45 960
ISRAEL   389 13 15 23 24 24 26 27 33 37 53 41 37 61 44 54 901
AUSTRALIA   400 21 11 16 27 41 30 32 36 43 23 23 24 38 30 43 838
AUSTRIA   426 9 13 20 28 30 32 15 27 29 15 33 15 15 18 13 738
HUNGARY   500 13 15 6 2 3 2 5 14 8 15 15 8 9 8 14 637
TAIWAN   68 20 20 23 28 22 37 33 49 45 33 48 38 50 52 66 632
U.S.S.R.   581 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591
FINLAND   226 13 22 20 21 17 26 23 28 26 35 28 19 22 24 17 567
SPAIN   210 8 8 14 10 19 23 24 11 22 26 10 20 30 22 28 485
MEXICO   403 5 3 3 0 5 5 2 1 5 2 3 0 3 8 5 453
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   40 4 6 4 11 14 9 20 13 22 23 29 16 26 40 31 308
NORWAY   134 5 5 6 6 10 15 15 17 13 8 19 14 11 8 16 302
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 3 7 10 18 19 16 17 20 28 9 15 16 20 19 16 233
SOUTH AFRICA   113 3 2 4 7 4 8 7 10 12 9 14 6 8 9 12 228
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   199 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206
VENEZUELA   39 4 5 3 8 12 11 5 3 5 0 3 0 1 4 4 107
POLAND   75 2 2 3 2 0 5 1 1 3 0 2 1 2 4 2 105
BRAZIL   34 2 1 2 1 5 1 4 7 6 7 4 6 5 4 3 92
NEW ZEALAND   31 0 0 0 3 3 4 5 3 6 3 4 1 13 4 10 90
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   4 1 2 0 1 5 5 0 0 4 2 9 8 14 11 14 80
IRELAND   30 3 2 3 1 1 3 2 2 2 8 4 2 1 2 2 68
ROMANIA   45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 47
ARGENTINA   22 0 2 4 0 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 1 5 2 3 46
PORTUGAL   28 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 0 0 2 6 0 45
Others (64)   260 9 11 10 17 21 20 25 30 29 25 25 27 34 37 34 614
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   103802 2744 2654 2729 2824 3495 3558 3244 3144 3361 2817 2483 2128 2918 2697 2797 147395
U.S. GOVERNMENT   3608 84 66 54 61 69 81 58 76 58 54 60 56 66 63 64 4578
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4093 128 170 137 162 198 211 156 184 136 145 95 90 107 113 79 6204
FOREIGN CORPORATION   61452 2576 2558 2395 2588 3261 3187 2920 3194 3346 2929 2594 2226 2918 2631 2738 103513
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1088 28 16 27 41 31 23 16 17 15 9 10 6 1 11 1 1340
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3297 68 71 73 87 121 146 93 134 112 114 88 50 84 67 80 4685

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3251. BASIC CHEMICALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   187904 6508 8220 6076 7091 6707 7096 7457 7811 7963 6159 4317 2571 1365 456 14 267715
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   108677 3352 4363 2854 3455 3281 3428 3443 3495 3574 2892 2096 1381 727 234 6 147258
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   79227 3156 3857 3222 3636 3426 3668 4014 4316 4389 3267 2221 1190 638 222 8 120457
JAPAN   19959 1042 1196 1070 1201 992 1059 1206 1291 1294 968 651 376 182 64 2 32553
GERMANY   22064 772 891 765 844 787 834 949 976 1011 724 418 235 109 43 2 31424
UNITED KINGDOM   7907 207 284 262 285 260 286 282 292 301 224 117 63 27 10 1 10808
FRANCE   7139 287 393 274 329 328 355 362 351 301 231 178 107 44 18 0 10697
SWITZERLAND   7300 172 171 126 157 144 123 137 158 154 96 62 30 27 9 0 8866
ITALY   3215 97 151 113 110 102 115 100 124 121 127 75 30 24 4 0 4508
CANADA   2416 106 144 109 127 131 150 156 125 131 89 117 40 30 14 1 3886
NETHERLANDS   2161 51 87 72 72 91 81 89 114 122 88 59 15 11 10 0 3123
BELGIUM   1016 52 86 52 45 52 76 68 80 71 41 34 23 7 4 0 1707
SWEDEN   815 40 46 28 52 49 56 46 59 53 43 14 11 6 2 0 1320
KOREA, SOUTH   126 58 52 54 58 89 85 112 129 149 115 100 54 37 9 0 1227
INDIA   148 16 14 24 35 43 48 67 138 136 140 90 31 30 5 0 965
DENMARK   386 29 54 38 50 70 60 62 75 57 31 29 14 5 0 0 960
ISRAEL   423 24 41 25 21 27 44 44 58 55 45 45 27 19 3 0 901
AUSTRALIA   447 26 52 30 37 36 30 40 41 37 27 20 8 7 0 0 838
AUSTRIA   453 27 37 15 32 26 24 24 30 37 23 3 3 4 0 0 738
HUNGARY   524 9 4 2 1 6 8 17 14 27 13 6 4 0 2 0 637
TAIWAN   100 26 28 25 30 37 45 52 34 70 52 56 36 30 10 1 632
U.S.S.R.   588 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591
FINLAND   258 33 23 22 20 26 34 28 38 43 19 15 5 3 0 0 567
SPAIN   227 11 20 16 25 17 19 16 30 28 27 26 15 6 2 0 485
MEXICO   409 4 3 5 3 3 3 2 5 1 6 4 2 2 1 0 453
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   50 6 12 16 12 18 13 31 34 34 32 23 16 8 3 0 308
NORWAY   147 5 11 12 12 11 23 17 20 25 8 7 3 0 0 1 302
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   10 10 18 19 18 21 26 24 23 19 12 16 10 5 2 0 233
SOUTH AFRICA   119 7 4 6 6 6 12 17 15 19 9 6 1 1 0 0 228
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   205 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206
VENEZUELA   46 7 6 9 10 10 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 1 0 0 107
POLAND   81 2 2 3 2 0 3 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 0 0 105
BRAZIL   38 0 1 6 3 9 4 5 5 10 7 3 1 0 0 0 92
NEW ZEALAND   32 3 0 3 3 6 6 7 6 9 10 2 1 0 2 0 90
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   5 3 0 2 6 1 4 3 6 14 13 9 12 2 0 0 80
IRELAND   35 4 2 1 1 4 4 3 3 5 2 2 2 0 0 0 68
ROMANIA   45 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
ARGENTINA   25 2 2 1 1 0 2 2 5 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 46
PORTUGAL   28 1 0 0 1 0 4 2 1 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 45
Others (64)   280 15 21 17 26 24 29 39 31 46 34 29 10 8 5 0 614
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   109042 3302 4300 2812 3447 3318 3399 3402 3468 3565 2877 2117 1370 725 246 5 147395
U.S. GOVERNMENT   3794 66 80 64 64 59 69 84 78 71 68 43 23 12 3 0 4578
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4350 207 224 185 182 162 174 159 156 134 107 78 58 23 4 1 6204
FOREIGN CORPORATION   66134 2813 3458 2865 3247 3034 3305 3662 3963 4073 3031 2028 1101 591 200 8 103513
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1137 24 39 36 20 15 16 20 12 15 4 1 1 0 0 0 1340
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3447 96 119 114 131 119 133 130 134 105 72 50 18 14 3 0 4685

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3252. RESIN, SYNTHETIC RUBBER, FIBERS, AND FILAMENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   44410 2253 1845 1807 1814 1989 1779 1958 2306 2221 2082 1892 1411 1627 1326 1073 71793
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   26324 1133 893 910 872 909 851 902 1022 1009 926 808 681 750 607 495 39092
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   18086 1120 952 897 942 1080 928 1056 1284 1212 1156 1084 730 877 719 578 32701
JAPAN   7079 611 482 440 424 468 418 464 561 550 505 443 317 367 327 242 13698
GERMANY   5080 235 202 232 253 279 219 236 280 244 273 251 164 175 135 98 8356
FRANCE   1139 41 51 43 36 65 37 53 61 53 67 51 44 50 34 30 1855
UNITED KINGDOM   1263 28 37 20 39 39 27 32 34 36 27 39 17 37 19 17 1711
ITALY   907 50 37 49 44 36 35 47 58 52 42 48 20 35 25 24 1509
NETHERLANDS   654 34 25 18 27 41 36 32 39 48 37 32 13 20 22 9 1087
SWITZERLAND   606 23 10 15 16 30 24 15 30 25 18 26 12 11 17 9 887
CANADA   326 19 35 16 19 16 15 31 36 43 20 40 28 25 16 20 705
BELGIUM   296 20 12 13 23 29 25 30 48 34 30 30 19 32 22 21 684
KOREA, SOUTH   38 12 22 17 14 22 18 47 32 40 49 49 40 43 29 40 512
TAIWAN   22 14 6 11 15 17 20 16 21 19 16 12 12 13 14 15 243
AUSTRIA   105 4 5 3 9 3 5 7 10 8 6 4 1 9 4 3 186
FINLAND   26 8 8 3 7 10 10 10 20 13 12 10 7 4 8 8 164
AUSTRALIA   66 4 6 3 3 6 7 2 11 10 6 7 4 6 3 2 146
U.S.S.R.   114 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 116
INDIA   21 3 0 0 2 4 6 3 8 7 6 11 10 11 7 10 109
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   100 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102
SWEDEN   46 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 9 6 3 1 0 5 4 2 91
ISRAEL   57 4 2 1 2 1 1 1 4 1 5 1 2 4 1 1 88
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 6 5 6 2 6 9 13 66
IRELAND   32 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 46
NORWAY   4 0 0 2 0 0 4 2 3 1 10 6 5 3 2 2 44
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 1 1 1 2 5 10 4 1 2 1 0 1 6 2 37
SPAIN   7 2 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 30
SAUDI ARABIA   9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 3 2 4 1 0 27
DENMARK   7 2 3 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 24
BRAZIL   5 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 19
SOUTH AFRICA   8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 16
POLAND   11 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 15
SINGAPORE   3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 3 0 15
LUXEMBOURG   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 2 0 14
HUNGARY   12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 1 11
LIECHTENSTEIN   2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 11
GREECE   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 9
MEXICO   3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7
Others (22)   20 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 4 2 3 2 2 48
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   26286 1113 912 922 869 945 863 936 1039 1031 933 841 679 779 624 500 39272
U.S. GOVERNMENT   505 29 15 21 18 14 19 14 14 14 10 12 14 9 6 10 724
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   764 30 18 15 24 35 30 22 27 24 30 19 17 16 22 12 1105
FOREIGN CORPORATION   16218 1061 881 838 883 974 846 969 1199 1133 1087 1003 691 812 660 543 29798
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   120 7 4 1 6 6 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 154
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   517 13 15 10 14 15 19 16 26 17 21 16 9 11 14 7 740

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3252. RESIN, SYNTHETIC RUBBER, FIBERS, AND FILAMENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   47922 1937 2555 1930 2285 1931 2103 2104 2275 2465 1947 1287 716 244 87 5 71793
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   28069 932 1262 883 1051 896 963 937 938 992 893 671 417 134 52 2 39092
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   19853 1005 1293 1047 1234 1035 1140 1167 1337 1473 1054 616 299 110 35 3 32701
JAPAN   8004 497 560 475 529 463 483 536 595 638 443 281 138 41 13 2 13698
GERMANY   5452 239 349 263 317 220 262 224 290 329 238 117 38 14 3 1 8356
FRANCE   1218 46 66 54 64 54 39 63 78 70 58 28 8 7 2 0 1855
UNITED KINGDOM   1313 35 56 34 27 38 39 37 32 47 16 24 5 7 1 0 1711
ITALY   987 40 68 46 62 42 47 43 48 55 38 19 11 3 0 0 1509
NETHERLANDS   705 27 30 31 47 32 38 36 64 36 17 17 5 0 2 0 1087
SWITZERLAND   631 23 21 23 38 14 27 18 28 32 14 7 5 5 1 0 887
CANADA   365 35 25 17 19 21 32 36 37 43 35 21 15 3 1 0 705
BELGIUM   329 24 25 25 27 38 35 43 25 47 32 21 5 6 2 0 684
KOREA, SOUTH   63 21 21 22 23 38 36 39 47 62 67 29 32 10 2 0 512
TAIWAN   43 3 21 10 23 21 18 22 15 19 20 8 7 7 6 0 243
AUSTRIA   115 3 7 6 5 8 8 10 6 9 5 4 0 0 0 0 186
FINLAND   42 4 11 12 12 12 15 13 14 21 3 2 1 1 1 0 164
AUSTRALIA   76 1 7 5 7 5 13 7 7 9 4 4 0 0 1 0 146
U.S.S.R.   115 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 116
INDIA   24 1 2 4 8 1 4 7 7 14 16 12 7 2 0 0 109
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   101 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102
SWEDEN   49 3 3 1 5 3 6 7 3 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 91
ISRAEL   63 0 2 3 1 0 5 4 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 88
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   10 0 0 2 0 3 5 8 6 5 7 10 8 2 0 0 66
IRELAND   33 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 46
NORWAY   4 0 2 2 3 1 7 2 9 3 10 1 0 0 0 0 44
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   1 0 1 4 4 9 6 2 1 1 1 2 5 0 0 0 37
SPAIN   11 0 4 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 30
SAUDI ARABIA   9 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 27
DENMARK   12 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 24
BRAZIL   6 1 3 0 1 2 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 19
SOUTH AFRICA   8 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 16
POLAND   11 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
SINGAPORE   4 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 15
LUXEMBOURG   2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 14
HUNGARY   12 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 11
LIECHTENSTEIN   2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 11
GREECE   5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9
MEXICO   3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7
Others (22)   23 0 2 1 2 2 1 1 6 3 2 3 1 1 0 0 48
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   28010 958 1264 906 1090 913 994 936 972 1026 925 680 413 133 51 1 39272
U.S. GOVERNMENT   547 20 24 18 10 13 16 15 11 17 8 14 6 2 2 1 724
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   811 23 37 21 34 25 20 28 27 24 19 21 12 3 0 0 1105
FOREIGN CORPORATION   17882 919 1206 962 1131 965 1044 1099 1240 1376 985 565 282 105 34 3 29798
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   130 3 6 2 4 3 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 154
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   542 14 18 21 16 12 29 23 24 21 10 6 3 1 0 0 740

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3254. PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICINES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   68256 4428 5054 6274 8560 10264 10550 9739 10720 10520 9735 7607 6681 8392 7780 7415 191975
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   36619 2485 2857 3757 5389 6402 6556 5962 6550 6464 5969 4636 4097 5119 4643 4309 111814
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   31637 1943 2197 2517 3171 3862 3994 3777 4170 4056 3766 2971 2584 3273 3137 3106 80161
JAPAN   8069 613 635 678 742 895 844 777 916 822 684 589 499 688 604 596 18651
GERMANY   6722 306 355 376 515 548 593 619 680 648 613 483 387 484 471 452 14252
UNITED KINGDOM   4195 222 250 280 414 495 504 516 527 501 419 332 314 372 357 325 10023
FRANCE   3393 203 245 280 383 441 446 439 462 439 452 270 261 297 280 280 8571
CANADA   945 77 99 159 201 301 332 302 309 329 303 235 170 256 227 218 4463
SWITZERLAND   2316 74 96 93 116 116 126 95 131 113 100 96 81 106 100 112 3871
ITALY   1637 102 114 126 122 135 153 135 137 135 115 89 80 98 104 108 3390
SWEDEN   577 35 48 58 96 102 107 112 109 122 117 91 78 93 91 93 1929
NETHERLANDS   546 30 32 28 62 93 103 96 96 89 84 79 77 72 81 89 1657
DENMARK   339 43 50 51 80 108 115 104 119 79 103 72 67 69 74 60 1533
BELGIUM   483 24 38 50 64 81 80 78 69 92 71 77 51 73 79 71 1481
ISRAEL   307 26 32 58 54 93 101 92 84 114 117 68 59 83 85 92 1465
AUSTRALIA   240 41 43 46 56 94 101 68 108 94 76 64 59 75 71 86 1322
KOREA, SOUTH   43 15 17 33 37 46 57 53 66 72 84 82 65 91 104 84 949
INDIA   76 4 9 9 11 23 31 40 52 67 98 57 76 88 75 73 789
HUNGARY   495 18 21 21 7 15 10 13 14 17 12 10 11 9 7 14 694
AUSTRIA   213 17 14 29 30 39 39 24 26 28 32 23 19 25 24 27 609
SPAIN   167 17 18 17 25 41 26 16 24 38 36 33 27 34 42 44 605
TAIWAN   24 7 7 11 14 26 32 23 39 44 40 41 48 61 46 70 533
FINLAND   108 15 19 29 25 37 37 22 29 32 27 21 23 21 16 28 489
NORWAY   63 8 9 20 21 21 15 28 21 14 18 17 12 12 18 16 313
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   20 3 6 6 10 12 9 9 24 23 26 30 28 32 38 32 308
NEW ZEALAND   24 8 3 7 7 8 21 15 12 22 20 21 12 14 14 10 218
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 3 15 11 22 26 15 17 22 12 7 9 10 19 16 204
U.S.S.R.   168 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 175
IRELAND   38 5 3 3 9 3 5 12 12 10 7 12 11 9 8 7 154
MEXICO   81 2 3 3 6 3 4 8 5 2 9 4 4 2 0 3 139
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   3 2 3 1 1 2 3 6 7 7 6 11 11 18 27 26 134
SOUTH AFRICA   49 0 2 4 7 6 8 6 5 7 7 1 2 3 5 2 114
ARGENTINA   28 0 3 5 5 7 3 4 6 9 8 9 2 6 5 4 104
BRAZIL   10 2 3 2 2 3 3 4 2 3 9 5 6 16 6 5 81
SINGAPORE   2 1 1 2 1 8 7 5 4 1 7 7 4 10 6 11 77
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   57 1 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65
CROATIA   0 0 3 1 5 2 1 3 5 3 3 2 6 5 10 6 55
POLAND   27 1 1 1 3 3 4 1 2 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 55
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 1 2 0 7 8 7 5 5 5 1 2 6 3 52
Others (73)   172 21 9 12 24 31 38 29 44 52 44 26 22 37 35 41 637
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   35995 2327 2647 3500 5034 5964 6082 5595 6077 6042 5629 4386 3875 4839 4429 4157 106578
U.S. GOVERNMENT   903 92 90 108 157 195 168 121 140 124 112 127 97 138 118 106 2796
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3120 194 240 304 407 493 537 454 552 480 426 282 225 247 215 180 8356
FOREIGN CORPORATION   26108 1687 1953 2201 2762 3346 3490 3325 3694 3622 3323 2626 2333 2981 2844 2839 69134
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   266 15 11 15 22 37 29 16 12 14 8 11 12 8 10 7 493
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1864 113 113 146 178 229 244 228 245 238 237 175 139 179 164 126 4618

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3254. PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICINES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   79965 8570 13381 7957 10128 9873 11130 11840 12081 10593 7259 4691 2733 1446 317 11 191975
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   43618 5245 8636 4639 6292 6046 6698 7108 7014 6191 4422 2992 1820 896 191 6 111814
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   36347 3325 4745 3318 3836 3827 4432 4732 5067 4402 2837 1699 913 550 126 5 80161
JAPAN   9337 839 956 778 845 801 940 963 1072 929 580 338 169 92 11 1 18651
GERMANY   7466 492 711 523 571 619 728 740 777 655 456 284 142 74 14 0 14252
UNITED KINGDOM   4746 420 631 413 481 499 566 537 598 510 307 173 79 51 11 1 10023
FRANCE   3874 394 577 377 436 435 492 509 501 418 243 146 88 62 19 0 8571
CANADA   1194 233 408 260 284 304 353 351 346 301 171 126 70 44 18 0 4463
SWITZERLAND   2490 129 149 92 133 112 107 145 148 146 95 57 32 27 9 0 3871
ITALY   1884 130 178 116 126 129 149 148 168 162 88 58 22 22 9 1 3390
SWEDEN   699 82 168 85 102 110 114 133 145 142 74 39 25 11 0 0 1929
NETHERLANDS   645 50 109 75 108 82 113 121 114 87 68 42 29 11 3 0 1657
DENMARK   450 64 140 62 127 101 121 109 143 95 62 21 22 13 3 0 1533
BELGIUM   558 54 133 63 82 83 84 111 103 81 63 30 23 10 3 0 1481
ISRAEL   400 74 105 79 85 90 103 131 147 91 71 41 27 20 1 0 1465
AUSTRALIA   364 73 114 71 87 86 124 114 106 75 46 35 13 9 5 0 1322
KOREA, SOUTH   74 38 43 44 50 50 73 105 119 145 104 50 36 18 0 0 949
INDIA   91 9 15 24 36 39 45 93 108 140 86 58 23 17 5 0 789
HUNGARY   536 18 19 11 11 17 15 15 13 15 10 10 4 0 0 0 694
AUSTRIA   254 43 42 38 30 28 31 34 40 27 16 10 13 2 1 0 609
SPAIN   202 22 32 38 32 23 16 42 57 58 39 21 14 8 1 0 605
TAIWAN   37 16 22 19 31 24 33 51 50 77 66 58 24 17 6 2 533
FINLAND   157 24 42 31 31 27 33 36 33 34 20 11 8 2 0 0 489
NORWAY   90 20 34 14 18 20 25 26 34 13 10 4 4 1 0 0 313
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   31 7 11 11 7 20 17 32 50 45 44 16 10 4 3 0 308
NEW ZEALAND   35 11 8 14 15 17 23 28 28 16 13 4 4 2 0 0 218
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   10 16 21 27 16 19 15 17 21 16 9 7 2 8 0 0 204
U.S.S.R.   171 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175
IRELAND   48 7 8 4 11 14 13 16 6 12 9 4 0 2 0 0 154
MEXICO   89 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 139
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   8 3 1 1 7 6 4 7 16 23 26 15 9 7 1 0 134
SOUTH AFRICA   56 5 6 3 6 7 7 6 8 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 114
ARGENTINA   34 7 1 6 6 6 2 11 16 5 4 4 0 2 0 0 104
BRAZIL   14 2 6 2 2 3 7 10 5 13 7 4 2 4 0 0 81
SINGAPORE   3 5 7 3 6 3 10 7 10 11 6 2 3 1 0 0 77
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   59 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65
CROATIA   2 3 4 1 3 4 2 6 6 7 13 2 0 2 0 0 55
POLAND   31 2 1 4 2 1 2 3 3 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 55
CZECH REPUBLIC   2 3 8 2 6 4 3 6 10 2 2 2 1 0 1 0 52
Others (73)   206 23 25 22 38 38 57 64 60 38 23 23 12 6 2 0 637
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   42410 4864 8096 4351 5895 5683 6296 6678 6580 5811 4205 2866 1755 904 177 7 106578
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1228 186 246 106 127 106 121 150 181 131 100 60 33 17 4 0 2796
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3658 404 591 381 488 485 504 499 472 363 250 132 79 39 11 0 8356
FOREIGN CORPORATION   30223 2885 4167 2892 3346 3369 3917 4237 4508 4028 2587 1554 828 469 120 4 69134
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   298 30 25 24 23 18 16 13 19 14 3 8 1 1 0 0 493
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2148 201 256 203 249 212 276 263 321 246 114 71 37 16 5 0 4618

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3253,3255,3256,3259. OTHER CHEMICAL PRODUCTS AND PREPARATION

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   126176 6388 6629 7431 8490 9525 10152 9577 10114 10072 9530 7553 5936 7035 6469 6009 247086
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   74311 3298 3350 3966 4669 5125 5493 5051 5281 5295 5074 3861 3132 3740 3333 3049 138028
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   51865 3090 3279 3465 3821 4400 4659 4526 4833 4777 4456 3692 2804 3295 3136 2960 109058
JAPAN   16368 1279 1295 1280 1315 1530 1540 1494 1574 1494 1334 1196 858 1072 1024 958 35611
GERMANY   11930 542 552 626 668 748 780 830 883 868 822 706 493 580 515 483 22026
UNITED KINGDOM   6392 284 313 301 377 459 465 495 501 445 431 346 288 319 301 254 11971
FRANCE   4577 255 306 317 417 435 480 439 498 501 441 293 241 266 270 248 9984
SWITZERLAND   3203 105 112 103 123 109 126 112 134 127 97 96 85 93 83 107 4815
CANADA   1571 128 125 197 191 246 259 239 257 244 243 199 135 175 149 169 4527
ITALY   1857 135 133 146 125 133 153 147 152 151 152 93 74 87 87 83 3708
BELGIUM   907 51 72 89 116 124 132 114 107 145 116 75 61 81 56 48 2294
NETHERLANDS   1152 44 43 41 43 77 88 73 90 89 97 77 60 58 63 45 2140
SWEDEN   667 28 37 49 76 77 71 77 70 101 87 57 51 52 52 58 1610
KOREA, SOUTH   66 20 26 31 52 43 65 55 81 96 120 118 77 98 134 101 1183
DENMARK   319 34 46 38 51 77 88 73 74 57 68 53 43 36 46 39 1142
AUSTRALIA   455 25 24 24 34 48 49 37 54 46 41 44 51 35 44 45 1056
ISRAEL   253 23 29 44 39 50 67 60 52 80 66 46 44 51 43 53 1000
TAIWAN   82 17 20 24 19 27 48 48 51 51 52 53 40 42 40 49 663
HUNGARY   483 13 18 20 8 14 7 11 13 12 11 5 8 6 7 15 651
AUSTRIA   286 16 16 19 19 22 35 17 19 23 23 15 8 12 12 12 554
SPAIN   161 15 20 16 24 36 24 16 29 35 27 29 23 27 31 30 543
INDIA   69 4 7 2 5 13 26 33 44 41 54 45 43 56 51 31 524
FINLAND   97 13 13 26 15 25 24 19 19 25 25 18 19 14 10 12 374
U.S.S.R.   259 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 263
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   22 3 7 6 13 11 9 7 13 19 19 29 20 26 25 23 252
NORWAY   92 1 5 6 7 2 7 13 8 10 3 7 10 9 12 10 202
SOUTH AFRICA   83 5 7 7 9 7 12 5 10 4 8 2 3 3 5 4 174
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 6 9 10 20 22 15 13 18 9 4 5 9 13 9 163
NEW ZEALAND   24 6 3 5 2 6 13 13 9 9 11 16 8 7 8 6 146
MEXICO   72 6 2 4 5 3 8 7 2 2 12 3 4 0 2 4 136
IRELAND   43 5 2 2 6 3 4 10 5 9 7 13 11 6 2 6 134
ARGENTINA   35 2 3 5 4 6 3 5 6 5 10 5 4 7 3 1 104
BRAZIL   26 2 6 2 2 1 5 8 3 5 8 4 6 8 3 6 95
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   7 2 4 2 1 1 0 6 7 5 4 6 5 8 2 9 69
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   60 1 1 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69
VENEZUELA   14 5 4 5 7 3 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 0 1 57
SINGAPORE   6 0 3 2 1 4 2 4 4 2 6 3 3 2 8 3 53
POLAND   29 0 2 1 4 5 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 51
LUXEMBOURG   6 1 1 2 3 4 0 7 1 4 4 2 4 4 5 2 50
Others (74)   192 19 16 12 27 26 40 34 46 52 45 31 15 44 29 36 664
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   72520 3260 3297 3864 4550 4964 5303 4943 5074 5132 4961 3751 3046 3599 3282 3010 134556
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2146 64 52 59 77 97 69 61 78 66 72 65 57 55 39 42 3099
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   5835 268 280 376 376 493 613 480 571 492 444 338 235 249 199 168 11417
FOREIGN CORPORATION   42576 2658 2856 2957 3281 3760 3964 3877 4168 4174 3851 3244 2491 3012 2839 2707 92415
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   413 12 12 20 19 16 5 12 5 5 9 1 1 0 2 1 533
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2686 126 132 155 187 195 198 204 218 203 193 154 106 120 108 81 5066

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3253,3255,3256,3259. OTHER CHEMICAL PRODUCTS AND PREPARATION

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   139059 8323 11232 8678 10199 9519 10389 11001 11277 10465 7669 4844 2720 1311 374 26 247086
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   81078 4428 6351 4483 5462 5072 5396 5632 5627 5152 4108 2714 1570 735 203 17 138028
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   57981 3895 4881 4195 4737 4447 4993 5369 5650 5313 3561 2130 1150 576 171 9 109058
JAPAN   18717 1450 1562 1520 1611 1430 1621 1656 1749 1638 1206 761 426 195 65 4 35611
GERMANY   12997 664 875 728 840 786 956 926 1067 975 577 360 176 78 21 0 22026
UNITED KINGDOM   6991 352 518 387 499 482 503 490 575 541 338 166 74 44 10 1 11971
FRANCE   5118 381 517 422 476 442 497 559 521 459 274 148 100 56 14 0 9984
SWITZERLAND   3402 136 142 99 128 127 114 144 146 149 92 65 34 28 9 0 4815
CANADA   1830 184 314 213 231 263 258 284 258 265 181 130 76 27 11 2 4527
ITALY   2139 135 163 138 134 143 162 169 180 162 86 54 20 17 6 0 3708
BELGIUM   1015 97 137 130 121 112 113 145 142 136 75 39 22 9 1 0 2294
NETHERLANDS   1238 52 64 68 95 78 90 116 110 106 75 27 15 4 2 0 2140
SWEDEN   749 63 103 68 69 75 83 96 100 99 60 24 14 7 0 0 1610
KOREA, SOUTH   106 34 50 47 58 61 75 130 133 187 136 93 43 27 2 1 1183
DENMARK   401 44 97 44 85 76 84 68 94 64 46 11 14 11 3 0 1142
AUSTRALIA   512 38 37 47 53 36 69 64 53 52 42 34 8 4 7 0 1056
ISRAEL   316 54 65 49 55 51 63 92 88 69 45 24 17 12 0 0 1000
TAIWAN   108 27 26 23 44 39 44 61 52 72 66 34 36 19 11 1 663
HUNGARY   515 18 18 9 10 15 12 11 8 11 10 9 5 0 0 0 651
AUSTRIA   322 24 18 29 27 16 20 25 30 18 8 8 7 1 1 0 554
SPAIN   193 16 30 32 29 23 17 40 49 43 28 24 10 8 1 0 543
INDIA   81 2 8 16 28 30 35 64 58 83 60 40 11 6 2 0 524
FINLAND   124 19 26 21 21 23 25 32 29 25 19 8 1 1 0 0 374
U.S.S.R.   259 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 263
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   34 5 14 12 7 10 9 23 31 39 39 12 12 4 1 0 252
NORWAY   100 6 9 5 5 10 14 10 19 13 5 2 3 1 0 0 202
SOUTH AFRICA   98 10 6 6 8 10 9 8 7 7 1 2 1 0 1 0 174
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   9 12 18 22 13 18 13 13 21 7 6 6 3 1 1 0 163
NEW ZEALAND   34 7 5 7 9 10 12 20 19 7 9 2 4 1 0 0 146
MEXICO   82 5 1 6 2 8 5 5 9 6 5 1 1 0 0 0 136
IRELAND   51 5 5 3 6 10 8 10 10 11 11 3 0 1 0 0 134
ARGENTINA   42 5 2 7 4 6 3 8 12 6 7 1 0 1 0 0 104
BRAZIL   30 6 4 1 4 5 11 9 7 6 7 4 1 0 0 0 95
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   11 5 0 2 3 4 4 6 10 8 2 7 4 3 0 0 69
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   63 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69
VENEZUELA   24 3 8 0 6 1 5 1 2 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 57
SINGAPORE   6 6 0 2 4 3 5 7 7 5 1 5 1 1 0 0 53
POLAND   33 2 3 4 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 51
LUXEMBOURG   7 2 2 3 7 4 0 6 3 6 6 3 0 1 0 0 50
Others (74)   224 22 30 24 42 39 52 69 50 33 37 22 11 7 2 0 664
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   79083 4241 6188 4421 5323 4920 5265 5510 5459 5037 3967 2641 1541 744 197 19 134556
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2301 95 86 59 72 62 56 76 92 71 73 32 18 5 1 0 3099
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   6420 407 510 417 543 537 516 540 463 419 299 178 109 47 12 0 11417
FOREIGN CORPORATION   47868 3371 4214 3573 4054 3803 4323 4644 5000 4752 3203 1930 1019 494 160 7 92415
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   439 21 17 14 9 8 5 6 7 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 533
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2948 188 217 194 198 189 224 225 256 181 127 61 33 21 4 0 5066

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 326. PLASTICS AND RUBBER PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   210712 9905 9149 9543 9579 11612 12296 12032 12125 11933 11364 10329 8056 7734 6677 5962 359008
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   142102 5809 5335 5838 5665 6823 7246 6861 6788 6572 6201 5488 4566 4348 3686 3338 226666
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   68610 4096 3814 3705 3914 4789 5050 5171 5337 5361 5163 4841 3490 3386 2991 2624 132342
JAPAN   21645 1877 1585 1559 1623 1971 2068 2062 2110 2167 2107 1963 1374 1316 1178 1113 47718
GERMANY   15472 701 684 670 614 817 824 885 892 857 923 815 561 559 471 371 26116
UNITED KINGDOM   6886 183 195 171 220 242 262 278 254 252 217 184 146 129 112 86 9817
FRANCE   5120 228 224 203 229 264 320 304 319 320 300 283 222 195 195 161 8887
CANADA   4420 249 248 232 264 299 295 325 311 304 238 251 176 167 136 117 8032
TAIWAN   676 169 169 214 215 273 327 333 353 368 334 335 275 258 220 194 4713
ITALY   2258 146 115 110 99 124 136 129 141 167 145 172 105 104 79 68 4098
SWITZERLAND   2533 97 115 88 89 112 99 94 108 104 90 90 60 67 64 35 3845
NETHERLANDS   1719 65 66 59 72 86 110 101 104 106 103 85 56 47 63 43 2885
SWEDEN   1886 42 59 42 41 84 67 81 107 82 80 79 56 55 31 49 2841
BELGIUM   956 67 67 73 73 89 86 85 106 100 71 76 75 77 54 35 2090
AUSTRALIA   897 53 50 50 53 57 57 71 72 62 61 64 45 53 37 27 1709
KOREA, SOUTH   134 34 56 40 56 83 96 109 103 124 135 140 103 108 110 102 1533
AUSTRIA   725 35 31 37 48 44 57 53 49 49 47 36 21 27 23 22 1304
DENMARK   475 17 13 13 25 17 34 29 38 34 29 20 15 23 14 15 811
ISRAEL   255 30 18 19 31 21 31 22 31 36 36 25 31 28 15 14 643
FINLAND   273 12 15 23 27 32 23 24 35 34 39 26 16 20 24 12 635
SPAIN   222 16 12 13 18 33 16 15 23 29 18 19 16 15 15 9 489
NORWAY   250 6 4 10 14 14 13 22 26 9 18 14 9 6 8 8 431
SOUTH AFRICA   248 11 13 11 15 12 7 8 10 14 12 5 5 7 6 4 388
LUXEMBOURG   92 6 5 5 6 10 6 23 11 14 18 17 13 17 22 16 281
NEW ZEALAND   135 6 5 5 7 15 18 9 14 11 10 14 6 7 7 7 276
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   58 3 6 6 8 13 6 14 19 23 22 20 13 17 17 11 256
MEXICO   122 5 8 3 3 6 13 11 6 8 6 4 7 1 5 9 217
IRELAND   89 4 3 7 3 8 14 14 9 10 11 5 14 8 5 10 214
U.S.S.R.   199 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 204
BRAZIL   89 4 10 6 10 10 11 7 9 4 6 10 4 8 7 5 200
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   23 2 3 1 6 1 5 6 10 13 16 15 17 19 19 29 185
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   128 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131
INDIA   36 1 6 4 1 3 3 3 6 6 6 15 11 10 13 6 130
SINGAPORE   15 3 3 1 0 4 8 4 7 11 14 17 6 8 10 6 117
ARGENTINA   50 4 3 4 5 4 5 6 6 3 6 2 3 1 1 1 104
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 4 4 8 10 11 6 11 13 2 7 4 3 3 7 3 96
HUNGARY   71 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 82
LIECHTENSTEIN   56 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 1 4 2 3 1 1 0 1 78
GREECE   37 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 3 7 1 1 1 0 2 5 68
Others (80)   360 10 15 14 25 26 25 27 30 24 35 31 22 24 21 29 718
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   102894 4134 3813 4166 4072 4844 5199 4902 4909 4871 4687 4083 3428 3287 2893 2530 164712
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1621 66 52 47 37 43 51 41 36 32 36 32 23 21 23 16 2177
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   41321 1775 1655 1781 1735 2169 2234 2129 2036 1862 1669 1541 1228 1178 928 875 66116
FOREIGN CORPORATION   52324 3376 3066 2985 3137 3814 4064 4228 4409 4460 4358 4131 2954 2881 2488 2284 104959
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   468 26 10 12 16 10 6 5 6 2 3 1 1 0 1 0 567
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   12084 528 553 552 582 732 742 727 729 706 611 541 422 367 344 257 20477

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 326. PLASTICS AND RUBBER PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   227546 10695 12044 11534 13185 12045 12446 12512 12911 12511 10126 6486 3328 1322 301 16 359008
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   151858 6401 7232 6681 7641 6872 6928 6885 6668 6580 5900 3939 2086 791 191 13 226666
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   75688 4294 4812 4853 5544 5173 5518 5627 6243 5931 4226 2547 1242 531 110 3 132342
JAPAN   24832 1799 1980 2042 2311 2106 2158 2170 2505 2304 1714 1042 526 186 42 1 47718
GERMANY   16688 754 831 815 978 814 976 935 1153 1007 635 324 140 56 10 0 26116
UNITED KINGDOM   7231 220 268 239 272 267 285 259 279 234 143 66 38 14 2 0 9817
FRANCE   5561 224 276 293 333 320 303 356 362 400 239 137 65 15 3 0 8887
CANADA   4859 266 313 275 334 311 312 309 272 300 230 138 67 39 5 2 8032
TAIWAN   906 207 223 266 273 336 390 368 388 383 377 284 170 116 26 0 4713
ITALY   2476 124 139 126 152 146 148 187 203 195 111 52 25 14 0 0 4098
SWITZERLAND   2723 107 126 87 125 97 120 104 113 97 74 43 17 10 2 0 3845
NETHERLANDS   1829 86 83 81 134 90 107 116 130 107 70 38 9 2 3 0 2885
SWEDEN   1976 58 53 74 76 97 98 90 95 102 64 31 20 6 1 0 2841
BELGIUM   1070 89 110 92 85 86 100 114 91 110 74 47 14 7 1 0 2090
AUSTRALIA   992 63 58 68 52 62 84 84 75 77 47 30 12 5 0 0 1709
KOREA, SOUTH   195 66 55 94 101 109 96 136 152 194 152 103 57 19 4 0 1533
AUSTRIA   788 35 63 49 56 51 47 53 56 58 25 15 4 3 1 0 1304
DENMARK   507 12 27 22 32 29 38 43 37 33 14 10 6 1 0 0 811
ISRAEL   305 23 31 23 30 20 33 44 41 39 32 14 6 1 1 0 643
FINLAND   298 26 33 32 27 34 30 33 58 32 21 9 1 1 0 0 635
SPAIN   249 16 21 28 18 18 17 31 23 27 15 14 6 4 2 0 489
NORWAY   260 12 15 20 10 16 23 14 23 15 11 8 2 2 0 0 431
SOUTH AFRICA   271 17 8 14 11 9 12 13 11 15 4 2 1 0 0 0 388
LUXEMBOURG   99 8 5 13 16 14 12 18 20 23 19 24 8 2 0 0 281
NEW ZEALAND   143 13 9 12 16 10 13 13 12 18 12 3 1 1 0 0 276
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   66 6 8 10 8 17 17 24 25 26 20 22 7 0 0 0 256
MEXICO   130 10 3 6 10 14 7 3 8 9 6 3 7 1 0 0 217
IRELAND   98 5 7 7 8 18 11 13 14 6 15 7 1 4 0 0 214
U.S.S.R.   203 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 204
BRAZIL   100 11 12 8 10 11 8 6 5 13 7 7 0 1 1 0 200
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   29 0 5 3 6 5 11 8 20 25 22 25 15 9 2 0 185
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   128 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131
INDIA   41 3 5 2 1 8 4 6 6 20 16 15 1 2 0 0 130
SINGAPORE   20 1 3 3 8 7 10 10 19 11 8 13 1 2 1 0 117
ARGENTINA   58 2 5 6 7 4 3 7 3 2 3 3 0 1 0 0 104
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   8 5 11 14 9 7 11 12 5 5 2 3 2 2 0 0 96
HUNGARY   71 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 82
LIECHTENSTEIN   58 2 1 1 1 3 3 4 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 78
GREECE   39 2 1 2 1 7 4 2 3 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 68
Others (80)   381 19 23 25 33 29 25 40 35 40 38 13 9 5 3 0 718
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   109998 4582 5311 4887 5640 4918 4967 5126 5034 4906 4375 2871 1431 537 122 7 164712
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1737 44 48 37 60 46 29 36 36 37 31 21 9 4 2 0 2177
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   44159 1979 2083 2006 2214 2093 2126 1958 1800 1856 1660 1147 683 279 68 5 66116
FOREIGN CORPORATION   58168 3424 3964 3889 4514 4281 4545 4631 5326 5038 3519 2122 1042 403 89 4 104959
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   503 11 12 18 4 4 4 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 567
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   12981 655 626 697 753 703 775 754 712 673 541 325 163 99 20 0 20477

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 327. NONMETALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   79536 3384 3164 3393 3656 4306 4733 4441 4777 4755 4649 4253 3389 3227 2691 2408 136762
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   52781 2008 1857 2136 2103 2500 2740 2530 2694 2550 2510 2201 1853 1703 1459 1281 84906
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   26755 1376 1307 1257 1553 1806 1993 1911 2083 2205 2139 2052 1536 1524 1232 1127 51856
JAPAN   7547 595 496 515 653 719 800 746 837 889 897 877 646 652 511 491 17871
GERMANY   5364 199 216 196 203 248 293 323 353 375 357 315 231 241 196 155 9265
UNITED KINGDOM   3200 76 76 70 84 116 114 105 109 107 103 80 73 59 55 39 4466
FRANCE   2408 105 112 91 111 120 123 133 129 127 142 120 91 80 77 84 4053
CANADA   1799 101 101 106 114 139 138 150 145 136 117 111 87 80 52 56 3432
SWEDEN   1007 24 30 29 36 48 33 46 48 48 49 46 32 32 21 28 1557
SWITZERLAND   884 32 30 23 25 44 44 39 43 32 37 42 30 24 16 15 1360
ITALY   708 42 39 21 31 40 41 43 45 49 38 69 35 24 24 23 1272
TAIWAN   195 51 47 46 67 83 95 65 79 109 87 102 56 69 57 45 1253
NETHERLANDS   651 11 29 13 31 24 35 28 31 27 29 30 19 19 20 17 1014
AUSTRALIA   421 27 20 14 24 26 31 28 37 23 30 40 24 33 25 14 817
KOREA, SOUTH   48 15 23 23 28 45 55 48 57 90 78 71 55 63 56 58 813
BELGIUM   447 13 12 15 17 25 23 18 28 29 10 17 26 24 10 6 720
AUSTRIA   287 10 8 18 18 11 24 10 19 15 23 16 13 12 14 7 505
DENMARK   248 12 9 8 16 10 17 14 13 15 11 9 8 13 5 9 417
FINLAND   171 15 11 15 18 13 21 12 23 14 14 14 15 12 15 6 389
ISRAEL   105 9 5 5 11 7 15 18 12 16 19 11 12 12 7 8 272
SOUTH AFRICA   144 5 10 9 6 6 4 6 3 10 5 4 5 5 2 2 226
SPAIN   103 8 4 5 4 12 8 4 7 16 11 9 13 9 7 2 222
NORWAY   145 0 2 4 6 7 10 8 6 5 2 4 3 7 3 6 218
U.S.S.R.   199 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 202
MEXICO   86 4 3 3 5 2 7 8 2 10 3 5 4 3 3 2 150
NEW ZEALAND   68 1 2 2 5 8 7 4 6 5 6 5 8 5 5 2 139
BRAZIL   39 3 1 3 4 10 8 3 6 5 9 5 3 5 5 2 111
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   20 0 0 0 3 4 3 8 2 8 7 9 4 8 9 3 88
IRELAND   35 1 2 1 3 2 5 4 3 7 5 3 4 3 2 3 83
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 2 0 3 1 0 5 5 6 4 6 8 6 6 11 10 82
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 2 3 7 6 12 7 4 9 5 4 5 9 2 5 2 82
HUNGARY   55 0 1 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 69
LUXEMBOURG   45 0 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 2 0 0 4 3 4 69
INDIA   12 1 2 1 4 4 2 2 0 3 3 6 4 6 5 5 60
SINGAPORE   8 2 1 0 0 2 4 1 4 5 5 4 2 1 3 1 43
ARGENTINA   22 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 5 1 1 0 0 1 38
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38
GREECE   24 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 38
MALAYSIA   5 1 1 0 2 0 2 3 1 0 0 4 1 6 1 3 30
Others (65)   209 6 9 6 14 15 14 16 16 15 23 9 15 4 6 15 392
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   37815 1364 1294 1500 1504 1758 1955 1749 1942 1879 1923 1654 1405 1301 1141 984 61168
U.S. GOVERNMENT   969 38 37 32 37 29 40 31 22 17 24 24 13 14 13 5 1345
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   15219 657 579 642 601 774 820 799 787 703 613 545 448 416 329 301 24233
FOREIGN CORPORATION   19574 1094 1014 1007 1240 1461 1584 1585 1735 1841 1815 1792 1371 1366 1084 1035 40598
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   323 13 9 12 11 12 3 2 3 3 1 3 1 0 3 0 399
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   5636 218 231 200 263 272 331 275 288 312 273 235 151 130 121 83 9019

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 327. NONMETALLIC MINERAL PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   85612 3847 4452 4278 4993 4605 4814 4892 5214 5089 4238 2615 1410 561 134 8 136762
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   56338 2307 2670 2457 2865 2598 2682 2598 2675 2568 2388 1497 850 323 83 7 84906
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   29274 1540 1782 1821 2128 2007 2132 2294 2539 2521 1850 1118 560 238 51 1 51856
JAPAN   8599 607 735 733 867 799 834 924 1064 983 805 504 276 110 31 0 17871
GERMANY   5763 237 237 264 340 329 370 412 401 409 276 145 56 21 5 0 9265
UNITED KINGDOM   3339 92 110 112 118 99 122 110 129 118 60 28 20 9 0 0 4466
FRANCE   2614 127 123 125 118 128 150 148 155 178 101 59 17 7 3 0 4053
CANADA   1979 121 139 125 149 163 137 138 127 140 105 54 38 15 1 1 3432
SWEDEN   1056 39 38 46 52 37 47 53 46 60 41 24 11 6 1 0 1557
SWITZERLAND   945 27 40 33 48 46 39 30 56 39 30 12 11 4 0 0 1360
ITALY   778 37 36 28 50 46 45 69 60 66 27 20 4 6 0 0 1272
TAIWAN   271 49 68 88 75 87 82 81 115 95 99 75 43 22 3 0 1253
NETHERLANDS   682 26 29 33 32 23 35 40 29 34 30 15 3 3 0 0 1014
AUSTRALIA   468 19 24 34 26 28 36 34 42 59 22 15 8 2 0 0 817
KOREA, SOUTH   75 31 35 40 50 65 67 73 89 99 87 60 31 10 1 0 813
BELGIUM   474 17 21 25 24 20 26 23 26 27 15 16 3 3 0 0 720
AUSTRIA   303 15 28 13 21 12 15 18 23 29 16 7 2 3 0 0 505
DENMARK   271 5 15 15 18 12 14 19 16 17 7 7 1 0 0 0 417
FINLAND   196 17 21 16 19 16 19 12 26 24 18 4 0 1 0 0 389
ISRAEL   118 10 11 8 14 14 15 22 16 16 14 8 5 1 0 0 272
SOUTH AFRICA   158 12 6 5 7 4 7 3 11 7 5 1 0 0 0 0 226
SPAIN   115 5 11 8 7 4 6 17 13 15 10 6 4 1 0 0 222
NORWAY   146 8 6 9 4 7 7 8 8 4 3 4 1 3 0 0 218
U.S.S.R.   201 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 202
MEXICO   93 4 2 7 9 4 6 4 5 6 6 1 3 0 0 0 150
NEW ZEALAND   71 3 6 7 8 5 2 7 7 10 10 2 0 1 0 0 139
BRAZIL   44 2 8 5 7 9 3 4 10 5 6 6 0 1 1 0 111
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   20 0 1 3 6 8 5 6 7 9 8 14 0 0 1 0 88
IRELAND   38 3 2 1 7 2 6 3 6 7 5 0 3 0 0 0 83
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   13 0 2 2 6 5 4 1 8 9 11 6 10 4 1 0 82
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   5 5 9 12 10 1 11 5 5 8 6 3 0 2 0 0 82
HUNGARY   56 0 0 0 5 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 69
LUXEMBOURG   46 1 0 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 6 1 0 0 0 69
INDIA   14 2 2 4 5 2 0 1 6 8 7 7 0 1 1 0 60
SINGAPORE   11 0 1 1 4 4 4 3 6 4 1 3 1 0 0 0 43
ARGENTINA   23 1 0 1 0 1 2 3 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 38
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38
GREECE   25 1 0 2 0 3 1 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 38
MALAYSIA   6 1 2 0 2 3 1 0 3 5 5 0 1 1 0 0 30
Others (65)   221 15 13 13 18 17 11 19 16 26 12 5 4 0 2 0 392
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   40290 1667 1910 1745 2054 1863 1932 1945 2044 1911 1776 1113 621 233 59 5 61168
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1041 31 36 41 40 32 16 25 24 17 19 15 5 3 0 0 1345
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   16322 664 754 734 859 764 784 695 649 667 615 369 231 100 25 1 24233
FOREIGN CORPORATION   21584 1218 1474 1441 1712 1659 1813 1909 2164 2213 1641 1015 505 202 46 2 40598
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   345 10 10 12 6 2 4 2 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 399
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6030 257 268 305 322 285 265 316 331 278 185 102 48 23 4 0 9019

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 331. PRIMARY METALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   29474 1015 977 908 804 1072 1199 1143 1282 1225 1089 958 757 716 616 629 43864
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   16567 462 427 407 346 454 508 461 496 456 397 364 302 291 253 270 22461
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   12907 553 550 501 458 618 691 682 786 769 692 594 455 425 363 359 21403
JAPAN   4297 267 241 241 228 294 301 293 326 326 324 276 199 181 166 188 8148
GERMANY   2282 56 79 63 39 71 86 108 137 107 91 94 63 62 34 27 3399
FRANCE   1193 45 46 46 47 52 56 68 66 62 46 32 35 21 21 28 1864
UNITED KINGDOM   1260 43 25 16 19 27 29 33 27 30 32 12 19 21 14 9 1616
CANADA   807 34 41 21 28 35 40 35 34 43 28 25 18 29 19 18 1255
SWITZERLAND   448 16 10 11 10 22 20 19 18 21 15 14 6 14 8 4 656
SWEDEN   461 7 9 9 7 10 11 16 22 24 16 15 11 7 4 8 637
AUSTRIA   281 5 7 10 9 11 22 12 28 20 17 11 12 6 11 7 469
ITALY   288 8 12 7 7 10 17 8 19 22 13 9 8 5 7 8 448
AUSTRALIA   199 16 14 16 10 13 27 18 18 19 17 16 7 15 11 6 422
NETHERLANDS   212 4 4 4 1 9 7 8 8 8 12 7 7 6 5 9 311
U.S.S.R.   264 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 272
KOREA, SOUTH   21 6 7 12 14 16 23 12 22 15 19 17 15 12 19 9 239
BELGIUM   168 1 2 2 5 5 3 4 5 7 3 4 5 5 3 3 225
TAIWAN   28 6 10 13 4 13 8 8 7 12 11 11 16 6 6 8 167
FINLAND   90 2 10 7 5 1 4 4 5 4 4 7 4 4 5 1 157
NORWAY   93 2 1 3 5 7 6 5 4 3 5 5 2 4 4 6 155
SOUTH AFRICA   65 6 2 2 1 0 2 3 5 2 2 5 2 2 1 0 100
MEXICO   66 2 2 0 2 3 4 3 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 89
DENMARK   22 0 1 1 3 2 3 2 4 5 5 4 6 3 4 4 69
ISRAEL   27 2 3 2 3 2 4 5 2 2 3 1 2 6 4 1 69
HUNGARY   58 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 63
BRAZIL   23 2 3 2 2 2 2 0 3 1 4 4 1 4 4 0 57
LUXEMBOURG   45 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 56
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 6 3 0 7 3 1 3 3 7 7 4 2 3 3 53
SPAIN   32 0 0 2 2 1 1 5 2 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 53
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   12 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 3 5 4 1 2 1 2 44
INDIA   12 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 2 4 4 2 4 2 39
VENEZUELA   14 0 4 0 0 1 1 5 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 32
THE BAHAMAS   5 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 1 7 4 3 0 0 0 0 29
CHILE   8 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 19
POLAND   18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 19
BULGARIA   18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18
GREECE   13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 14
ROMANIA   13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
ARGENTINA   8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 13
Others (38)   56 6 6 4 2 2 3 1 5 7 3 4 5 2 1 6 113
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   14078 388 341 344 293 383 437 374 426 402 355 325 260 272 231 243 19152
U.S. GOVERNMENT   754 14 16 13 7 9 10 14 7 8 6 7 4 6 3 5 883
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2154 65 64 50 47 66 71 78 86 70 48 42 40 28 29 27 2965
FOREIGN CORPORATION   10877 489 507 460 424 560 634 644 711 692 633 550 430 390 342 338 18681
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   245 7 7 4 4 3 2 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 279
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1366 52 42 37 29 51 45 31 49 51 47 34 23 20 11 16 1904

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 331. PRIMARY METALS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   31201 1085 1102 1111 1207 1137 1146 1222 1307 1321 926 560 346 167 25 1 43864
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   17321 480 517 457 506 442 450 436 451 476 368 263 186 90 17 1 22461
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   13880 605 585 654 701 695 696 786 856 845 558 297 160 77 8 0 21403
JAPAN   4746 289 280 307 328 276 292 333 402 372 259 123 96 40 5 0 8148
GERMANY   2407 73 58 88 85 101 116 114 110 133 65 32 11 5 1 0 3399
FRANCE   1279 46 54 61 57 62 60 63 58 56 37 22 7 2 0 0 1864
UNITED KINGDOM   1316 28 27 25 35 26 30 26 38 25 22 15 2 1 0 0 1616
CANADA   872 33 34 39 28 40 23 46 42 36 21 21 9 10 1 0 1255
SWITZERLAND   472 10 15 22 23 23 16 15 18 17 10 14 0 1 0 0 656
SWEDEN   475 16 9 6 10 20 13 30 23 17 10 5 2 1 0 0 637
AUSTRIA   291 9 14 12 26 23 18 19 13 19 13 4 4 4 0 0 469
ITALY   304 11 13 7 14 14 21 18 17 7 11 3 7 1 0 0 448
AUSTRALIA   226 17 11 23 20 17 19 23 22 20 11 10 2 1 0 0 422
NETHERLANDS   219 5 3 8 6 9 10 12 8 20 9 2 0 0 0 0 311
U.S.S.R.   271 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 272
KOREA, SOUTH   32 12 20 12 20 18 16 16 27 23 25 11 5 2 0 0 239
BELGIUM   171 3 3 4 6 3 5 8 4 8 5 3 2 0 0 0 225
TAIWAN   41 11 8 6 12 9 11 9 12 12 20 8 4 3 1 0 167
FINLAND   98 12 5 1 2 6 3 4 9 10 5 1 1 0 0 0 157
NORWAY   97 1 7 9 4 3 4 5 6 8 5 4 0 2 0 0 155
SOUTH AFRICA   72 4 0 0 1 5 4 2 3 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 100
MEXICO   68 2 2 4 3 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 89
DENMARK   23 0 5 2 2 3 4 3 9 8 7 3 0 0 0 0 69
ISRAEL   32 2 2 3 3 5 3 3 4 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 69
HUNGARY   60 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 63
BRAZIL   27 2 5 1 1 2 0 3 6 5 1 3 0 1 0 0 57
LUXEMBOURG   46 1 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 56
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 6 2 7 2 3 5 6 5 6 5 0 3 0 0 0 53
SPAIN   32 1 1 2 3 5 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 53
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   16 0 0 2 0 6 3 5 4 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 44
INDIA   14 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 4 8 4 3 0 0 0 0 39
VENEZUELA   17 1 0 1 1 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 32
THE BAHAMAS   7 2 1 0 2 1 2 7 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 29
CHILE   11 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 19
POLAND   18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 19
BULGARIA   18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18
GREECE   13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14
ROMANIA   13 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
ARGENTINA   9 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 13
Others (38)   64 7 3 1 3 4 3 5 6 7 4 2 2 2 0 0 113
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   14694 400 445 375 438 377 394 379 423 408 331 233 159 81 14 1 19152
U.S. GOVERNMENT   782 13 12 12 8 10 10 7 6 8 5 9 1 0 0 0 883
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2271 58 59 72 73 70 62 71 58 63 37 27 27 14 3 0 2965
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11751 553 539 609 643 645 633 715 763 799 531 273 152 67 8 0 18681
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   259 6 5 2 1 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 279
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1444 55 42 41 44 35 42 49 57 43 22 18 7 5 0 0 1904

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 332. FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   311838 11694 11065 11380 11147 14165 15253 15406 15505 15162 14542 12845 11433 11700 9743 8850 501728
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   221586 7531 7108 7322 7056 8925 9413 9245 9089 8603 8399 7194 6662 6771 5585 5119 335608
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   90252 4163 3957 4058 4091 5240 5840 6161 6416 6559 6143 5651 4771 4929 4158 3731 166120
JAPAN   19189 1244 1169 1197 1172 1501 1684 1781 1818 1843 1764 1598 1390 1376 1168 1033 40927
GERMANY   20289 742 682 708 701 868 986 1153 1164 1226 1166 964 820 834 675 633 33611
UNITED KINGDOM   10248 243 263 220 241 299 330 371 361 387 319 273 264 256 208 193 14476
CANADA   7189 384 371 353 391 454 500 509 473 500 440 422 343 333 295 237 13194
FRANCE   8408 325 296 307 286 346 383 351 396 361 374 307 221 255 221 189 13026
TAIWAN   1655 322 319 367 370 516 602 624 711 774 700 746 611 665 551 502 10035
SWEDEN   4357 107 117 101 93 159 176 170 192 144 133 141 95 110 76 85 6256
SWITZERLAND   4187 122 104 125 91 147 123 145 163 135 118 119 79 105 78 62 5903
ITALY   2691 136 98 106 109 160 161 166 158 195 170 175 148 136 125 105 4839
NETHERLANDS   2064 55 53 53 64 58 84 86 98 104 66 64 68 47 49 40 3053
AUSTRALIA   1606 98 83 87 82 88 103 122 114 117 96 103 66 82 77 47 2971
KOREA, SOUTH   248 49 58 74 102 209 226 186 151 218 205 215 204 236 228 219 2828
AUSTRIA   1230 48 48 56 50 51 74 67 68 75 65 58 46 60 38 31 2065
BELGIUM   853 24 20 32 29 50 37 29 65 42 36 42 34 39 27 21 1380
ISRAEL   599 43 44 42 52 43 52 48 63 52 70 46 52 49 37 38 1330
DENMARK   753 26 24 26 38 36 37 46 43 39 42 33 29 32 27 23 1254
FINLAND   549 26 32 38 39 42 48 40 50 46 49 48 27 31 31 15 1111
SPAIN   455 26 23 21 25 41 29 32 41 52 33 24 35 28 22 23 910
NORWAY   480 18 20 20 25 38 29 35 39 32 30 21 16 16 14 15 848
SOUTH AFRICA   469 19 24 19 19 13 11 17 26 15 20 12 19 20 16 15 734
U.S.S.R.   485 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 493
NEW ZEALAND   256 9 10 6 11 21 22 15 25 15 25 18 14 12 16 13 488
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   104 8 14 16 8 19 12 24 33 30 48 44 27 31 25 27 470
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   49 3 4 3 3 3 4 15 16 20 30 36 39 55 58 78 416
BRAZIL   156 9 14 16 17 15 24 16 26 17 21 27 9 24 15 7 413
MEXICO   218 9 6 6 6 9 16 19 14 15 12 10 18 6 7 10 381
IRELAND   113 6 6 6 7 9 14 12 10 13 13 8 12 9 5 5 248
ARGENTINA   117 5 6 4 8 2 7 9 5 5 10 6 7 3 5 4 203
HUNGARY   169 5 2 0 0 0 1 4 5 2 0 3 1 6 1 0 199
SINGAPORE   31 6 7 5 2 3 8 7 14 20 17 21 9 9 6 6 171
LUXEMBOURG   94 0 7 3 3 2 4 7 4 5 4 8 5 6 3 3 158
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   135 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 5 2 9 11 11 10 13 19 8 11 8 3 8 13 3 134
LIECHTENSTEIN   108 4 2 1 2 0 0 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 0 1 132
VENEZUELA   66 3 5 7 1 2 2 0 3 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 97
INDIA   36 0 2 2 0 1 2 3 3 4 4 12 8 7 8 3 95
Others (87)   596 28 21 20 33 23 38 36 43 43 49 35 51 40 33 44 1133
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   135542 4539 4247 4418 4267 5399 5771 5826 5826 5568 5531 4632 4510 4605 3753 3460 207894
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6317 123 106 69 94 100 99 85 104 102 97 72 67 72 60 86 7653
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   83777 2975 2879 2954 2826 3583 3746 3537 3370 3121 2958 2646 2210 2241 1911 1652 126386
FOREIGN CORPORATION   62197 3045 2895 2970 2985 3852 4343 4645 4826 5011 4788 4435 3768 3913 3276 3073 120022
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1135 36 21 30 30 26 6 4 10 6 9 8 0 3 1 2 1327
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   22870 976 917 939 945 1205 1288 1309 1369 1354 1159 1052 878 866 742 577 38446

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 332. FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   330932 12876 13567 13740 15324 15236 15590 15932 15828 16431 14780 10982 6710 2986 779 35 501728
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   233747 8217 8789 8552 9440 9083 9183 9228 8721 9099 8490 6545 4149 1846 493 26 335608
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   97185 4659 4778 5188 5884 6153 6407 6704 7107 7332 6290 4437 2561 1140 286 9 166120
JAPAN   21284 1349 1430 1533 1770 1783 1726 1889 2012 1977 1806 1293 739 276 60 0 40927
GERMANY   21555 803 796 906 1046 1077 1239 1273 1371 1295 1035 687 372 132 22 2 33611
UNITED KINGDOM   10679 284 319 285 322 360 392 357 413 394 334 181 106 44 6 0 14476
CANADA   7821 423 449 435 479 522 499 482 483 510 458 329 196 90 18 0 13194
FRANCE   8955 342 340 350 361 403 391 387 426 431 309 213 84 29 5 0 13026
TAIWAN   2071 396 375 474 539 604 729 734 767 841 825 708 528 325 116 3 10035
SWEDEN   4550 121 111 143 166 199 180 170 179 182 126 78 34 12 4 1 6256
SWITZERLAND   4392 111 151 128 122 154 153 143 142 150 110 78 45 20 4 0 5903
ITALY   2886 126 133 137 178 162 166 229 185 244 188 108 64 29 4 0 4839
NETHERLANDS   2168 62 64 63 95 78 92 105 101 86 72 43 15 7 2 0 3053
AUSTRALIA   1779 106 88 99 100 99 120 134 125 145 82 51 29 13 1 0 2971
KOREA, SOUTH   330 85 106 191 239 196 154 185 216 313 336 255 151 51 18 2 2828
AUSTRIA   1321 58 58 54 63 63 73 74 73 93 74 34 17 9 1 0 2065
BELGIUM   892 35 36 40 45 39 59 53 52 57 33 21 7 9 2 0 1380
ISRAEL   672 57 54 44 52 45 54 72 70 68 63 47 24 8 0 0 1330
DENMARK   799 30 35 44 37 38 51 41 53 50 39 28 8 1 0 0 1254
FINLAND   599 40 48 45 48 41 44 49 71 50 45 22 5 4 0 0 1111
SPAIN   498 30 25 35 28 40 30 51 40 43 38 29 14 7 2 0 910
NORWAY   510 33 32 34 27 30 38 30 34 34 23 15 4 3 1 0 848
SOUTH AFRICA   509 26 10 18 17 19 20 21 28 27 15 14 5 3 2 0 734
U.S.S.R.   491 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 493
NEW ZEALAND   272 13 13 17 23 18 16 25 26 30 17 13 1 4 0 0 488
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   120 18 10 16 12 26 26 35 50 47 45 34 19 8 4 0 470
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   58 1 2 5 4 11 21 18 33 50 54 70 51 32 6 0 416
BRAZIL   177 23 20 12 20 18 19 22 23 35 23 12 6 2 1 0 413
MEXICO   227 13 6 8 16 23 13 13 13 16 16 6 6 4 1 0 381
IRELAND   124 5 10 11 10 16 13 8 21 11 13 6 0 0 0 0 248
ARGENTINA   129 4 6 3 8 9 5 7 8 5 10 3 1 4 1 0 203
HUNGARY   175 1 0 1 0 3 4 5 0 5 2 2 1 0 0 0 199
SINGAPORE   42 5 8 1 4 10 19 18 19 25 7 9 3 1 0 0 171
LUXEMBOURG   98 8 2 2 5 6 3 6 7 10 6 2 3 0 0 0 158
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   136 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   9 7 7 18 13 6 17 15 8 18 8 4 0 3 1 0 134
LIECHTENSTEIN   113 3 0 2 1 1 2 3 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 132
VENEZUELA   76 3 3 1 3 0 3 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 97
INDIA   37 2 1 1 2 4 3 0 8 14 11 8 3 1 0 0 95
Others (87)   631 34 29 31 29 50 33 47 47 71 65 33 20 9 3 1 1133
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   143043 4938 5359 5281 5907 5707 5828 6028 5872 5987 5631 4329 2593 1110 268 13 207894
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6539 88 90 95 108 106 57 101 91 94 98 73 77 31 4 1 7653
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   88426 3322 3467 3353 3632 3465 3486 3302 2985 3214 2963 2238 1545 752 227 9 126386
FOREIGN CORPORATION   67351 3384 3588 3849 4433 4663 4811 5126 5573 5764 4931 3549 2000 793 197 10 120022
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1187 33 33 25 5 8 8 13 2 6 4 2 1 0 0 0 1327
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   24386 1111 1030 1137 1239 1287 1400 1362 1305 1366 1153 791 494 300 83 2 38446

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 333. MACHINERY

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   639924 23411 22110 23719 23454 29266 30555 31631 32596 31334 31182 29549 25290 28634 25243 24044 1051942
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   381101 11847 11086 11950 11271 13602 14568 14772 15050 14320 14258 13303 11466 12809 11155 9946 572504
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   258823 11564 11024 11769 12183 15664 15987 16859 17546 17014 16924 16246 13824 15825 14088 14098 479438
JAPAN   79595 5313 4896 5385 5595 7178 7179 7342 7464 7444 7317 7119 6111 7040 6388 6262 177628
GERMANY   62990 2178 2007 2075 2125 2657 2806 3066 3291 3115 3171 2875 2498 2499 2237 2189 101779
UNITED KINGDOM   24864 486 518 517 556 627 650 698 775 703 651 563 484 552 473 454 33571
FRANCE   18983 599 579 518 524 673 651 724 727 695 618 602 450 583 498 495 27919
CANADA   12352 553 541 606 608 701 712 812 858 720 727 642 593 732 609 598 22364
SWITZERLAND   11188 362 336 343 299 351 359 398 398 374 368 319 270 311 240 260 16176
ITALY   8721 362 362 340 379 457 427 524 446 455 488 489 367 419 359 370 14965
SWEDEN   8955 227 249 226 241 338 369 404 424 381 347 291 260 279 295 258 13544
TAIWAN   1476 304 338 337 361 535 616 738 800 880 911 920 695 840 700 719 11170
KOREA, SOUTH   514 170 188 277 378 655 711 532 519 553 568 707 712 890 847 968 9189
NETHERLANDS   5362 193 145 150 158 206 220 224 266 248 250 255 193 336 288 354 8848
AUSTRALIA   2819 140 114 132 118 186 184 179 188 156 189 205 188 193 192 162 5345
AUSTRIA   2959 86 109 119 100 118 134 170 218 170 196 149 136 158 129 115 5066
BELGIUM   2514 84 97 127 122 172 134 165 137 141 115 113 100 107 78 90 4296
FINLAND   1877 86 111 145 151 180 181 153 192 210 188 190 138 156 97 111 4166
U.S.S.R.   2930 16 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2955
DENMARK   1628 50 43 62 80 93 74 75 106 63 89 89 61 66 64 70 2713
ISRAEL   1056 61 63 90 87 122 117 120 144 122 115 103 92 107 99 92 2590
SPAIN   944 48 50 48 49 49 61 71 76 85 85 76 61 57 42 54 1856
NORWAY   911 34 32 34 34 61 68 72 69 58 51 56 42 59 46 59 1686
SOUTH AFRICA   878 29 41 39 21 37 32 37 27 34 30 27 19 30 25 21 1327
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   1052 5 8 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1073
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   151 17 24 21 18 40 37 40 74 55 69 57 47 46 48 43 787
BRAZIL   287 26 28 17 24 20 26 29 41 23 38 34 17 37 30 30 707
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   102 13 16 9 9 9 16 20 38 41 48 51 65 75 71 98 681
NEW ZEALAND   354 9 11 7 24 27 24 17 28 35 25 32 26 17 25 14 675
MEXICO   405 11 11 16 12 18 16 18 29 33 21 27 12 15 9 10 663
HUNGARY   402 4 4 6 3 4 6 5 2 5 7 9 4 7 5 8 481
SINGAPORE   42 12 7 11 10 10 20 30 40 41 44 46 35 36 42 22 448
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   2 9 27 24 21 32 32 44 43 41 38 33 27 31 17 20 441
IRELAND   207 7 4 11 9 11 15 20 12 17 17 25 16 9 8 11 399
LUXEMBOURG   243 14 11 9 9 5 9 7 15 6 7 6 10 8 5 3 367
ARGENTINA   226 8 6 5 5 6 8 9 8 11 14 10 3 5 6 10 340
POLAND   246 3 2 2 3 4 4 3 3 2 3 2 3 6 6 14 306
LIECHTENSTEIN   215 3 6 5 3 4 6 5 7 9 5 12 0 11 0 6 297
BULGARIA   211 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 222
Others (109)   1162 41 38 48 43 73 83 108 79 88 109 112 89 108 109 108 2398
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   279499 9026 8310 9053 8722 10546 11268 11643 12112 11595 11632 10881 9397 10436 9290 8295 431705
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6345 156 123 111 105 95 128 115 98 108 91 83 67 71 62 58 7816
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   105582 2976 2990 3121 2792 3395 3646 3529 3388 3105 2968 2687 2301 2604 2074 1869 149027
FOREIGN CORPORATION   202622 9867 9284 10145 10525 13596 13900 14676 15347 14970 15022 14552 12464 14380 12902 12962 397214
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2218 54 53 49 48 32 23 12 8 7 12 13 2 9 1 1 2542
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   43658 1332 1350 1240 1262 1602 1590 1656 1643 1549 1457 1333 1059 1134 914 859 63638

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 333. MACHINERY

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   678992 25978 27918 28605 31827 30826 32070 34184 35351 35783 32743 27358 18664 8987 2570 86 1051942
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   400639 13032 13910 13324 14882 14433 14968 15806 15523 15610 14587 12176 8359 4058 1158 39 572504
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   278353 12946 14008 15281 16945 16393 17102 18378 19828 20173 18156 15182 10305 4929 1412 47 479438
JAPAN   88543 5991 6342 6977 7934 7143 7033 7892 8452 7994 7701 6986 5335 2534 747 24 177628
GERMANY   66605 2278 2464 2585 2880 2938 3463 3437 3720 3823 3177 2239 1379 619 171 1 101779
UNITED KINGDOM   25756 570 628 649 679 704 748 796 800 826 663 408 213 110 20 1 33571
FRANCE   20039 549 632 651 682 652 754 759 801 813 678 501 279 115 14 0 27919
CANADA   13263 612 760 682 747 807 821 775 823 808 779 707 489 226 61 4 22364
SWITZERLAND   11814 359 377 386 353 389 359 406 433 439 337 295 126 84 18 1 16176
ITALY   9321 406 410 436 489 465 470 504 559 632 525 378 232 97 41 0 14965
SWEDEN   9349 287 265 327 394 402 396 411 447 479 369 219 122 62 13 2 13544
TAIWAN   1874 364 406 482 576 691 784 880 981 1007 952 908 661 429 168 7 11170
KOREA, SOUTH   805 288 382 638 684 578 495 594 641 965 1069 980 738 277 53 2 9189
NETHERLANDS   5668 172 195 203 233 224 237 292 317 319 325 440 146 64 13 0 8848
AUSTRALIA   3060 129 160 204 154 195 169 211 234 291 220 181 83 31 21 2 5345
AUSTRIA   3112 126 129 120 132 177 196 197 213 251 174 138 56 38 5 2 5066
BELGIUM   2662 120 137 175 161 155 162 131 153 139 141 68 57 26 9 0 4296
FINLAND   2067 159 163 181 191 158 181 235 222 262 186 83 38 34 6 0 4166
U.S.S.R.   2950 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2955
DENMARK   1705 65 103 88 69 81 93 88 99 130 103 52 26 10 0 1 2713
ISRAEL   1180 99 113 100 118 129 134 149 136 149 105 82 56 32 8 0 2590
SPAIN   1028 55 50 49 69 63 75 79 124 89 87 46 24 14 4 0 1856
NORWAY   972 39 35 58 75 57 76 67 78 111 49 44 16 4 5 0 1686
SOUTH AFRICA   940 39 35 26 33 35 36 30 50 36 29 27 5 4 2 0 1327
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   1064 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1073
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   180 31 19 30 37 43 67 67 71 75 63 48 37 13 6 0 787
BRAZIL   331 32 13 26 26 30 29 36 49 48 35 36 7 8 1 0 707
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   131 10 6 8 19 21 31 45 53 79 88 81 49 45 15 0 681
NEW ZEALAND   369 15 22 27 27 24 20 39 39 37 31 13 8 4 0 0 675
MEXICO   423 15 20 17 13 23 27 29 31 19 24 10 7 4 1 0 663
HUNGARY   408 7 8 3 3 5 2 5 13 9 5 5 6 1 1 0 481
SINGAPORE   60 10 12 14 14 29 61 32 50 69 39 32 20 6 0 0 448
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   33 25 24 28 38 30 61 33 56 48 31 24 6 3 1 0 441
IRELAND   218 11 9 19 14 14 16 19 19 30 13 12 3 2 0 0 399
LUXEMBOURG   260 15 9 8 7 10 10 9 9 11 12 5 0 2 0 0 367
ARGENTINA   241 5 5 6 4 9 10 12 14 10 5 9 7 2 1 0 340
POLAND   251 2 1 6 4 5 1 3 2 11 9 4 4 2 1 0 306
LIECHTENSTEIN   223 6 4 5 4 7 3 11 3 11 9 6 3 2 0 0 297
BULGARIA   212 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 222
Others (109)   1236 48 64 65 81 100 81 104 133 151 123 114 67 25 6 0 2398
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   294508 9825 10646 10437 11683 11473 11924 12873 12827 12842 12003 9867 6666 3199 905 27 431705
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6627 114 119 106 115 87 90 119 107 101 96 64 50 18 3 0 7816
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   110385 3418 3551 3238 3563 3347 3419 3372 3147 3182 2903 2460 1802 949 277 14 149027
FOREIGN CORPORATION   219267 11151 12120 13256 14826 14406 14967 16098 17590 17895 16342 13962 9532 4467 1292 43 397214
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2312 43 57 39 29 10 10 8 12 10 8 3 1 0 0 0 2542
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   45893 1427 1425 1529 1611 1503 1660 1714 1668 1753 1391 1002 613 354 93 2 63638

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 334. COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   531594 35189 36929 40890 41046 59515 61494 64874 70316 73634 78495 81261 73554 94729 86755 90929 1521204
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   325560 18306 19281 21667 21870 31785 33103 34881 37429 38522 40845 41931 38013 48878 43459 44276 839806
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   206034 16883 17648 19223 19176 27730 28391 29993 32887 35112 37650 39330 35541 45851 43296 46653 681398
JAPAN   98602 10821 11005 11777 11362 15959 15936 16013 17033 18445 19622 20272 17873 22677 20380 21129 348906
GERMANY   32087 1426 1468 1469 1495 2158 2183 2511 2869 3095 3562 3548 3265 3894 3715 3820 72565
KOREA, SOUTH   1286 628 746 932 1160 2089 2257 2275 2430 2519 2643 3025 3016 4271 4697 5785 39759
UNITED KINGDOM   18434 711 800 810 821 1164 1191 1231 1419 1465 1467 1574 1492 1775 1645 1585 37584
FRANCE   15763 813 846 863 851 1098 1078 1118 1164 1234 1263 1279 1190 1486 1312 1445 32803
TAIWAN   975 275 444 574 720 1188 1524 2077 2447 2398 2447 2842 2596 3413 3493 3809 31222
CANADA   6772 445 464 582 592 856 939 1056 1143 1132 1275 1371 1178 1592 1536 1731 22664
NETHERLANDS   7245 330 371 386 326 564 514 502 525 602 599 586 444 627 579 652 14852
SWITZERLAND   6098 259 209 239 229 270 256 323 319 358 385 440 366 432 419 477 11079
SWEDEN   3748 191 250 296 271 402 482 605 651 678 607 528 503 578 467 472 10729
ITALY   3692 220 193 260 280 373 323 371 463 472 481 422 371 457 414 458 9250
ISRAEL   1155 156 182 218 234 394 373 415 563 598 736 681 622 854 762 833 8776
AUSTRALIA   1346 82 110 101 93 188 155 170 268 306 353 388 427 777 790 842 6396
FINLAND   696 121 122 163 157 260 297 289 341 417 491 547 448 653 631 606 6239
BELGIUM   1794 83 96 127 133 182 184 196 192 172 198 198 170 208 211 211 4355
SINGAPORE   68 25 27 50 71 82 100 163 221 324 321 352 269 324 305 311 3013
AUSTRIA   1185 59 55 49 66 71 78 103 113 114 163 157 152 202 157 191 2915
DENMARK   728 39 31 36 47 47 101 87 93 101 146 138 110 186 139 145 2174
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   83 13 16 19 12 19 22 17 31 67 77 143 158 310 419 728 2134
INDIA   44 5 7 9 10 13 18 22 34 46 103 122 167 231 319 405 1555
NORWAY   370 29 34 36 27 44 45 57 55 70 93 89 82 102 112 135 1380
U.S.S.R.   1258 11 1 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1277
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   129 10 14 18 21 33 44 49 62 56 73 98 106 124 122 124 1083
IRELAND   151 13 22 32 32 27 34 45 67 60 81 108 77 109 97 112 1067
SPAIN   178 17 13 33 24 40 23 61 64 61 76 63 82 89 80 115 1019
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   1 12 34 29 31 67 75 56 94 82 106 74 68 90 94 95 1008
MALAYSIA   14 4 1 1 7 4 12 18 30 33 31 39 57 81 119 117 568
SOUTH AFRICA   278 12 15 23 12 18 17 23 19 16 15 25 17 24 14 23 551
NEW ZEALAND   135 2 8 9 17 26 19 29 26 31 36 30 33 37 40 37 515
HUNGARY   299 4 6 3 7 11 13 5 15 11 30 12 17 14 21 22 490
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   345 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350
MEXICO   104 4 9 5 7 4 10 14 16 21 22 26 30 29 21 9 331
BRAZIL   70 6 4 9 10 16 15 9 13 12 19 21 12 22 16 24 278
POLAND   108 1 1 5 1 3 1 3 6 4 3 8 10 16 18 33 221
ARGENTINA   89 9 6 2 6 6 4 6 5 5 13 7 2 8 7 2 177
GREECE   41 5 2 8 2 5 8 4 6 4 6 5 8 9 11 10 134
Others (106)   663 39 35 47 39 49 59 69 90 103 107 112 123 150 134 160 1979
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   277288 16374 17385 19741 20170 29486 30876 32461 35255 35914 38089 39385 36014 46107 40929 42557 758031
U.S. GOVERNMENT   18530 638 499 479 401 479 429 455 418 410 414 397 337 369 381 321 24957
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   47867 2154 2383 2512 2376 3220 3024 3017 2811 2777 2806 2668 2286 2993 2561 2528 87983
FOREIGN CORPORATION   167849 15182 15804 17287 17236 25071 26065 27818 30618 33225 35878 37669 33893 44011 41773 44536 613915
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   3307 113 112 106 102 113 70 34 34 56 38 34 30 29 45 19 4242
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   16753 728 746 765 761 1146 1030 1089 1180 1252 1270 1108 994 1220 1066 968 32076

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 334. COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   603624 45986 55738 61316 74277 76153 82489 90855 96862 94922 85846 72019 49741 24550 6558 268 1521204
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   363637 24091 30441 32572 40055 41300 44942 48838 50270 47991 42411 34751 23819 11465 3085 138 839806
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   239987 21895 25297 28744 34222 34853 37547 42017 46592 46931 43435 37268 25922 13085 3473 130 681398
JAPAN   120230 13510 15350 16404 19311 18074 18602 21295 23648 22297 21104 17874 12967 6357 1829 54 348906
GERMANY   34767 1732 1925 2155 2641 2877 3407 3962 4431 4965 3796 2916 1890 912 182 7 72565
KOREA, SOUTH   2588 1010 1347 2365 2604 2838 2583 2843 3262 3735 4502 4830 3211 1686 346 9 39759
UNITED KINGDOM   20036 981 1097 1215 1523 1549 1731 1959 2125 2046 1519 903 576 259 59 6 37584
FRANCE   17449 982 1130 1084 1226 1271 1527 1669 1581 1741 1424 918 493 242 63 3 32803
TAIWAN   1447 567 778 1238 1517 2206 2713 2137 2719 3491 3693 3838 2836 1582 442 18 31222
CANADA   7703 615 833 930 1211 1387 1415 1604 1612 1621 1430 1107 725 373 96 2 22664
NETHERLANDS   7933 450 461 576 621 562 613 681 822 797 626 425 189 76 19 1 14852
SWITZERLAND   6540 262 281 291 301 352 412 464 529 523 437 319 204 119 40 5 11079
SWEDEN   4199 328 369 415 751 773 764 827 742 595 427 292 164 75 8 0 10729
ITALY   4120 270 348 361 395 419 476 495 572 565 505 330 231 131 31 1 9250
ISRAEL   1515 272 308 369 482 568 831 874 985 901 625 475 374 147 44 6 8776
AUSTRALIA   1565 110 134 176 190 370 293 493 430 558 544 699 497 217 109 11 6396
FINLAND   939 166 212 352 399 375 609 756 784 625 477 325 150 58 12 0 6239
BELGIUM   1963 135 184 206 197 224 239 224 216 223 236 160 88 51 9 0 4355
SINGAPORE   121 56 64 102 133 182 262 359 404 400 325 286 199 98 22 0 3013
AUSTRIA   1293 66 77 79 80 114 138 157 185 223 166 152 96 76 13 0 2915
DENMARK   800 45 50 61 108 117 154 152 215 203 131 85 29 19 5 0 2174
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   112 21 15 17 22 28 43 118 176 258 269 376 341 288 46 4 2134
INDIA   58 8 13 12 21 29 77 126 158 250 294 233 167 88 20 1 1555
NORWAY   434 30 43 33 57 65 91 111 122 127 103 74 52 33 5 0 1380
U.S.S.R.   1273 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1277
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   151 22 31 31 58 52 60 83 128 122 125 109 68 35 8 0 1083
IRELAND   182 44 34 31 51 75 64 111 100 130 77 70 60 21 16 1 1067
SPAIN   213 34 32 37 50 57 65 83 130 77 110 71 43 12 5 0 1019
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   34 45 45 60 84 77 94 123 130 84 99 68 42 16 6 1 1008
MALAYSIA   21 1 7 3 19 11 39 34 41 51 99 106 79 43 14 0 568
SOUTH AFRICA   309 22 14 19 20 20 22 27 25 21 21 13 10 6 2 0 551
NEW ZEALAND   146 15 13 27 29 30 35 43 53 42 40 20 14 7 1 0 515
HUNGARY   307 5 13 9 12 14 19 18 29 25 16 11 10 0 2 0 490
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   349 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350
MEXICO   115 8 8 6 13 17 22 28 37 22 20 17 14 4 0 0 331
BRAZIL   79 13 14 12 13 10 22 13 18 24 29 13 10 7 1 0 278
POLAND   110 5 0 4 0 6 8 8 9 24 20 16 7 4 0 0 221
ARGENTINA   102 5 7 6 4 6 9 8 10 6 4 6 1 2 1 0 177
GREECE   51 6 6 4 6 9 6 4 5 12 11 8 4 1 1 0 134
Others (106)   733 53 52 54 72 88 102 128 159 147 131 123 81 40 16 0 1979
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   311520 21966 28170 30522 37437 38553 42001 45675 47522 45687 40203 32550 22446 10765 2868 146 758031
U.S. GOVERNMENT   19728 507 547 431 444 466 422 397 445 453 352 339 259 130 36 1 24957
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   52267 2837 3171 2969 3383 3106 3259 3464 3135 3000 2611 2164 1579 815 213 10 87983
FOREIGN CORPORATION   198414 19659 22778 26237 31754 32832 35405 39779 44162 44274 41507 36176 24886 12578 3366 108 613915
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   3520 124 111 102 73 49 45 56 40 38 41 29 10 4 0 0 4242
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   18175 893 961 1055 1186 1147 1357 1484 1558 1470 1132 761 561 258 75 3 32076

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3341. COMPUTER AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   58889 5416 5886 7501 8367 14061 14020 14076 15306 15503 16474 17952 17009 24738 22585 25626 283409
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   34185 2913 3204 4186 4765 8231 8316 8465 9149 9044 9643 10328 9943 14542 12758 14032 163704
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   24704 2503 2682 3315 3602 5830 5704 5611 6157 6459 6831 7624 7066 10196 9827 11594 119705
JAPAN   15125 1889 1952 2402 2486 3943 3782 3578 3803 3787 4055 4369 3790 5440 4958 5637 70996
GERMANY   2667 130 125 135 175 276 250 250 289 327 361 421 422 568 588 711 7695
UNITED KINGDOM   1876 106 133 120 141 261 287 275 299 323 306 362 375 496 480 511 6351
KOREA, SOUTH   140 64 81 123 159 303 375 352 358 319 312 371 407 650 667 949 5630
TAIWAN   128 44 47 72 100 174 170 197 243 368 412 497 466 660 642 770 4990
FRANCE   1534 70 113 131 135 193 166 157 161 200 189 231 227 298 279 371 4455
CANADA   519 37 44 73 98 158 178 231 247 257 253 289 282 427 465 548 4106
AUSTRALIA   83 7 16 15 15 52 40 45 106 144 154 175 224 391 454 541 2462
ISRAEL   130 19 33 43 46 104 97 113 115 136 177 180 150 218 225 259 2045
NETHERLANDS   640 34 26 46 49 88 78 80 109 111 84 100 87 129 105 125 1891
SWEDEN   332 17 18 27 37 46 53 65 84 95 64 88 68 99 91 101 1285
SWITZERLAND   546 19 14 24 27 38 32 35 43 39 49 76 69 59 84 74 1228
ITALY   401 17 19 26 24 49 39 39 57 47 55 51 56 75 63 76 1094
FINLAND   28 7 6 10 11 22 28 31 42 47 56 70 66 121 125 146 816
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   10 2 7 4 5 4 3 7 9 19 19 31 38 101 132 243 634
INDIA   3 1 4 2 2 1 3 2 13 20 33 54 73 101 124 170 606
BELGIUM   124 8 8 11 15 26 25 35 21 24 23 31 30 42 35 31 489
SINGAPORE   11 4 6 13 15 13 19 19 26 57 35 39 32 59 43 59 450
IRELAND   31 4 9 11 13 10 8 11 23 21 19 37 23 40 37 37 334
SPAIN   10 2 2 3 6 7 10 27 31 24 44 23 37 29 26 28 309
AUSTRIA   80 1 3 4 5 15 6 10 8 7 18 25 26 29 23 26 286
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 3 1 6 10 13 4 15 14 30 19 20 28 22 33 219
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   17 4 4 1 11 10 7 11 16 9 16 18 18 21 30 18 211
DENMARK   35 2 1 2 4 2 12 3 8 15 16 17 15 19 25 16 192
NORWAY   29 2 1 4 3 5 5 4 4 11 8 9 7 21 26 22 161
NEW ZEALAND   12 1 0 0 1 4 4 3 3 5 9 4 7 11 10 11 85
MALAYSIA   1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 8 12 22 21 78
U.S.S.R.   58 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61
MEXICO   6 1 1 0 1 0 1 3 3 10 6 4 7 4 5 1 53
BRAZIL   3 0 0 1 1 4 4 2 4 4 3 4 2 7 5 7 51
SOUTH AFRICA   6 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 1 4 3 5 4 3 3 7 45
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
HUNGARY   12 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 5 2 4 37
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 4 5 3 2 4 23
BULGARIA   11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 8 22
ARGENTINA   7 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 0 20
Others (58)   52 4 4 9 8 6 3 16 12 12 16 13 22 29 23 29 258
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   30984 2724 3028 4024 4592 7919 7998 8085 8787 8645 9242 10002 9731 14122 12434 13966 156283
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1097 38 53 38 37 55 45 59 42 35 39 50 45 57 51 42 1783
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3986 257 273 304 381 603 604 580 558 550 576 544 519 802 688 672 11897
FOREIGN CORPORATION   21248 2304 2455 3025 3255 5303 5198 5190 5750 6065 6413 7158 6525 9525 9189 10754 109357
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   228 7 6 8 6 12 7 3 1 2 5 0 2 0 4 2 293
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1346 86 71 102 96 169 168 159 168 206 199 198 187 232 219 190 3796

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3341. COMPUTER AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   72792 8914 12583 14641 17919 18690 20540 23578 24009 22124 18983 14809 8915 3737 1109 66 283409
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   41798 4876 7171 8660 10725 11542 12847 14560 14061 12639 10275 7635 4440 1890 549 36 163704
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   30994 4038 5412 5981 7194 7148 7693 9018 9948 9485 8708 7174 4475 1847 560 30 119705
JAPAN   19791 2919 3904 4030 4649 4224 4360 4909 5446 4833 4633 3648 2391 981 271 7 70996
GERMANY   2942 186 231 268 324 326 437 559 621 664 508 350 187 71 19 2 7695
UNITED KINGDOM   2179 162 223 277 343 395 448 521 611 501 324 188 118 41 16 4 6351
KOREA, SOUTH   309 147 196 345 471 505 368 411 497 584 686 624 297 146 43 1 5630
TAIWAN   215 78 126 173 197 255 349 377 438 674 699 703 447 211 47 1 4990
FRANCE   1770 135 177 177 211 216 286 394 338 303 240 123 56 21 7 1 4455
CANADA   631 77 148 173 299 322 355 398 428 424 323 299 148 54 27 0 4106
AUSTRALIA   117 17 40 59 42 160 125 207 166 241 255 450 357 142 76 8 2462
ISRAEL   198 66 63 96 128 153 218 266 244 231 149 113 91 17 8 4 2045
NETHERLANDS   721 53 57 95 114 121 118 120 133 147 118 60 26 6 2 0 1891
SWEDEN   377 27 47 44 90 106 113 126 149 90 57 27 22 9 1 0 1285
SWITZERLAND   583 30 32 44 35 37 61 86 103 99 44 40 24 8 2 0 1228
ITALY   443 34 34 44 53 63 58 52 80 80 76 39 24 10 3 1 1094
FINLAND   44 13 14 19 56 46 79 120 138 114 94 54 19 4 2 0 816
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   18 7 4 3 5 11 23 57 44 85 88 138 98 51 2 0 634
INDIA   10 2 0 4 3 7 34 76 80 114 116 80 47 24 9 0 606
BELGIUM   143 12 23 34 32 35 38 25 33 34 46 21 12 1 0 0 489
SINGAPORE   28 16 14 14 26 29 43 66 52 52 38 44 18 9 1 0 450
IRELAND   46 17 13 9 9 28 20 39 39 43 18 22 20 6 5 0 334
SPAIN   16 6 8 11 19 25 23 34 67 22 43 26 8 1 0 0 309
AUSTRIA   86 5 8 14 13 7 11 14 32 30 17 17 10 16 6 0 286
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 4 6 12 16 15 17 32 33 19 27 17 10 2 5 1 219
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   25 5 10 7 14 14 15 28 30 22 13 15 8 4 1 0 211
DENMARK   39 2 4 7 9 10 27 16 35 25 7 9 1 0 1 0 192
NORWAY   34 3 4 5 6 8 10 26 23 12 8 6 12 3 1 0 161
NEW ZEALAND   13 0 2 5 4 4 12 5 15 6 10 6 2 0 1 0 85
MALAYSIA   2 0 2 0 5 0 3 3 3 8 21 21 7 3 0 0 78
U.S.S.R.   59 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61
MEXICO   7 2 1 1 1 2 8 10 11 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 53
BRAZIL   4 2 4 1 4 2 6 3 3 3 11 7 0 1 0 0 51
SOUTH AFRICA   7 1 4 1 3 3 6 4 3 3 5 2 3 0 0 0 45
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
HUNGARY   13 0 2 1 0 3 1 2 7 2 4 0 2 0 0 0 37
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 9 0 1 3 3 2 0 0 23
BULGARIA   11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 1 1 0 0 22
ARGENTINA   11 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 20
Others (58)   62 9 10 7 12 14 18 30 36 13 22 13 6 2 4 0 258
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   38217 4630 6912 8317 10321 11054 12238 13950 13726 12496 10145 7530 4389 1802 513 43 156283
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1201 60 52 39 57 63 55 46 55 63 37 37 14 3 1 0 1783
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4600 398 510 637 704 659 754 956 767 644 506 371 246 110 33 2 11897
FOREIGN CORPORATION   27000 3696 4969 5467 6606 6726 7260 8338 9163 8679 8116 6763 4203 1796 555 20 109357
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   241 10 10 9 6 2 4 4 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 293
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1533 120 130 172 225 186 229 284 298 238 178 108 61 26 7 1 3796

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3342. COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   74284 5283 6024 7299 7086 10324 10988 11329 11721 12205 12426 14248 13485 20265 17730 19402 254099
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   44865 2613 3087 3776 3793 5284 5772 6184 6406 6470 6506 7570 7113 10786 9219 9589 139033
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   29419 2670 2937 3523 3293 5040 5216 5145 5315 5735 5920 6678 6372 9479 8511 9813 115066
JAPAN   14388 1676 1787 2022 1846 2844 2659 2454 2512 2667 2731 2981 2917 4286 3782 4163 55715
GERMANY   3499 150 171 220 213 294 319 351 410 413 476 501 476 710 608 652 9463
UNITED KINGDOM   2734 133 152 180 146 242 300 308 311 332 311 371 354 500 437 434 7245
KOREA, SOUTH   277 119 132 199 219 376 430 396 385 400 401 471 455 699 800 1178 6937
FRANCE   2683 156 159 200 162 203 228 258 259 294 250 298 273 401 301 366 6491
CANADA   1515 95 102 159 140 230 324 320 329 313 320 411 357 526 482 578 6201
TAIWAN   227 31 55 61 88 141 132 175 181 208 220 300 274 469 544 581 3687
SWEDEN   627 50 74 121 99 154 203 272 265 279 266 200 207 213 138 160 3328
FINLAND   76 27 45 60 66 142 180 163 181 226 291 341 255 409 368 369 3199
NETHERLANDS   990 61 83 77 73 101 113 84 74 90 91 110 98 147 102 135 2429
ISRAEL   180 41 45 56 59 79 84 88 106 131 152 178 161 256 207 213 2036
SWITZERLAND   584 37 29 22 36 29 38 39 35 52 57 63 57 107 61 85 1331
ITALY   609 26 26 30 31 39 34 32 30 51 48 57 50 84 61 93 1301
AUSTRALIA   188 14 14 14 16 20 26 28 27 46 52 67 79 161 158 156 1066
BELGIUM   211 19 16 34 18 37 28 31 32 28 28 44 42 48 36 53 705
AUSTRIA   113 6 6 7 9 12 14 19 21 21 37 37 44 48 34 56 484
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 0 3 1 3 1 5 4 3 9 7 24 35 74 78 131 387
DENMARK   55 1 5 5 4 6 20 17 17 26 26 19 31 49 32 45 358
SINGAPORE   10 4 3 12 17 13 10 15 19 43 22 31 26 39 28 40 332
INDIA   6 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 9 19 18 36 56 67 103 323
SPAIN   34 4 3 6 6 17 8 9 17 11 17 22 15 39 32 48 288
IRELAND   26 6 3 3 10 10 8 13 15 16 26 35 22 29 31 32 285
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   36 2 2 7 3 9 11 15 15 5 11 18 19 39 25 21 238
NORWAY   44 0 1 1 1 3 3 5 10 12 14 13 14 16 20 25 182
SOUTH AFRICA   53 2 3 5 6 6 4 10 7 8 5 6 10 6 4 6 141
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 2 3 4 6 7 4 7 9 2 17 12 13 20 24 131
NEW ZEALAND   14 1 2 2 4 9 2 8 7 6 9 1 8 10 4 7 94
HUNGARY   21 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 12 4 7 2 10 7 75
MEXICO   14 1 2 0 0 0 3 3 2 6 5 10 7 9 3 1 66
U.S.S.R.   52 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53
ICELAND   2 0 1 1 0 2 4 5 8 4 2 8 5 3 2 1 48
MALAYSIA   2 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 1 2 6 3 2 4 6 42
BRAZIL   12 0 1 3 0 3 2 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 1 7 38
ARGENTINA   25 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 35
GREECE   8 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 4 26
POLAND   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 2 1 4 9 26
Others (57)   91 3 6 7 9 4 10 10 17 13 9 10 17 27 23 24 280
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   37062 2361 2753 3401 3406 4814 5254 5562 5771 5888 5945 6878 6512 10036 8549 9116 123308
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2028 38 61 48 49 30 46 59 54 50 46 39 50 60 57 52 2767
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   8654 351 428 537 533 663 650 671 631 544 459 576 506 742 621 630 17196
FOREIGN CORPORATION   23871 2425 2646 3168 2941 4612 4829 4830 5060 5508 5806 6580 6230 9154 8274 9412 105346
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   355 14 9 10 10 10 11 1 4 4 2 5 7 6 4 3 455
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2314 94 127 135 147 195 198 206 201 211 168 170 180 267 225 189 5027

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3342. COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   86376 8047 10055 12025 15081 15755 17419 18517 18746 16916 13905 10812 6774 2835 809 27 254099
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   50950 4089 5279 6279 7721 8430 9169 9633 9745 9062 7347 5705 3594 1542 471 17 139033
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   35426 3958 4776 5746 7360 7325 8250 8884 9001 7854 6558 5107 3180 1293 338 10 115066
JAPAN   18082 2299 2852 3062 3808 3527 3702 3884 4096 3296 2747 2179 1490 553 136 2 55715
GERMANY   3814 255 272 345 455 459 688 797 715 668 431 311 167 68 18 0 9463
UNITED KINGDOM   3067 193 221 299 434 420 479 519 496 435 325 197 113 35 11 1 7245
KOREA, SOUTH   558 219 280 469 543 675 572 584 606 607 704 661 315 126 17 1 6937
FRANCE   3028 218 218 245 305 303 412 437 395 384 276 167 65 32 5 1 6491
CANADA   1736 162 196 304 473 482 491 511 446 440 392 285 164 89 29 1 6201
TAIWAN   295 68 100 141 171 214 239 262 340 449 419 400 356 187 46 0 3687
SWEDEN   771 128 148 190 370 361 349 375 253 138 114 79 35 15 2 0 3328
FINLAND   148 59 106 222 244 217 390 510 489 325 221 163 71 27 7 0 3199
NETHERLANDS   1133 88 105 136 129 101 121 132 153 142 90 63 22 9 5 0 2429
ISRAEL   270 78 66 70 121 149 226 224 269 236 128 102 65 24 7 1 2036
SWITZERLAND   650 30 44 38 43 51 79 73 91 81 68 46 26 7 4 0 1331
ITALY   665 37 31 37 39 48 76 65 80 84 69 34 26 8 2 0 1301
AUSTRALIA   226 12 18 25 32 54 50 133 68 116 125 106 53 31 16 1 1066
BELGIUM   252 22 32 38 47 45 60 50 50 35 37 28 6 2 1 0 705
AUSTRIA   130 8 7 21 17 22 40 35 45 55 38 23 18 19 6 0 484
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   12 2 1 3 3 7 11 32 59 70 82 57 33 13 1 1 387
DENMARK   61 7 7 10 22 21 47 32 56 39 23 16 11 3 3 0 358
SINGAPORE   24 14 12 18 14 33 43 35 36 35 30 24 8 4 2 0 332
INDIA   8 2 3 1 0 3 19 18 37 51 73 52 34 13 9 0 323
SPAIN   43 9 8 12 13 14 22 27 43 24 27 20 21 3 2 0 288
IRELAND   35 9 9 7 11 22 27 39 20 38 18 19 23 5 3 0 285
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   41 7 7 9 16 17 12 17 48 10 24 13 8 8 1 0 238
NORWAY   44 2 1 3 5 12 19 24 17 19 14 11 9 1 1 0 182
SOUTH AFRICA   61 7 6 5 6 6 7 12 12 3 6 3 7 0 0 0 141
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   4 2 6 5 7 9 8 17 12 12 24 12 8 2 2 1 131
NEW ZEALAND   17 2 5 9 6 7 7 8 9 11 8 2 3 0 0 0 94
HUNGARY   22 1 2 1 3 5 9 3 11 12 5 0 1 0 0 0 75
MEXICO   17 0 0 1 4 5 10 10 11 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 66
U.S.S.R.   53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53
ICELAND   2 3 0 5 5 8 7 6 3 0 5 1 2 1 0 0 48
MALAYSIA   5 0 1 1 4 1 7 4 2 1 7 6 2 1 0 0 42
BRAZIL   13 3 2 1 2 2 1 0 4 3 1 1 2 2 1 0 38
ARGENTINA   26 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 35
GREECE   9 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 4 2 1 0 0 1 0 26
POLAND   4 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 3 4 5 1 1 0 0 26
Others (57)   100 10 8 9 8 19 17 8 24 24 15 19 15 4 0 0 280
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   42534 3702 4878 5711 7086 7666 8305 8795 9069 8419 6808 5221 3224 1418 452 20 123308
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2136 61 48 39 44 61 65 44 39 65 49 53 41 18 4 0 2767
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   9452 564 640 686 730 622 757 737 647 645 591 508 414 161 41 1 17196
FOREIGN CORPORATION   29335 3558 4315 5369 6989 7192 8039 8650 8705 7527 6255 4903 2998 1198 308 5 105346
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   382 12 8 14 5 3 4 5 6 8 4 4 0 0 0 0 455
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2537 150 166 206 227 211 249 286 280 252 198 123 97 40 4 1 5027

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3344. SEMICONDUCTOR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   168721 11189 11963 12476 13092 18454 20045 22305 25499 27028 28491 29392 26339 30653 29121 29341 504109
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   103938 5397 5798 6052 6234 8672 9502 10467 11980 12499 13111 13119 11750 13332 12301 11851 256003
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   64783 5792 6165 6424 6858 9782 10543 11838 13519 14529 15380 16273 14589 17321 16820 17490 248106
JAPAN   32434 3974 4079 4162 4220 5699 6004 6435 7118 8036 8405 8841 7688 8821 8055 7870 131841
KOREA, SOUTH   588 298 372 406 587 1047 1169 1277 1426 1525 1634 1856 1899 2522 2809 3301 22716
GERMANY   9292 339 359 336 352 556 569 699 771 882 1036 1086 1001 1120 1077 1070 20545
TAIWAN   295 130 278 378 475 768 1069 1543 1857 1600 1563 1837 1610 2029 2075 2268 19775
FRANCE   5495 295 274 237 287 328 340 358 393 381 404 442 363 448 395 376 10816
UNITED KINGDOM   5830 162 210 194 186 314 293 301 350 407 409 428 387 420 371 382 10644
NETHERLANDS   3522 126 128 152 112 222 180 168 190 235 284 219 134 199 207 202 6280
CANADA   1694 105 100 121 117 180 189 221 254 242 312 299 297 279 304 347 5061
ITALY   1130 76 79 121 141 195 168 213 256 259 231 196 173 186 184 174 3782
SWITZERLAND   1443 54 58 47 61 52 61 64 79 86 91 83 84 82 85 90 2520
SWEDEN   782 40 26 47 43 83 105 112 148 150 120 100 78 101 87 84 2106
ISRAEL   216 39 50 58 54 80 84 91 115 131 177 147 158 167 160 163 1890
SINGAPORE   41 13 14 20 42 46 63 104 148 201 189 185 145 188 177 164 1740
FINLAND   138 44 26 30 27 49 47 33 60 75 79 74 68 73 76 59 958
BELGIUM   285 8 18 15 28 32 25 35 50 36 63 67 49 55 56 67 889
AUSTRALIA   202 8 14 8 15 23 25 23 56 40 58 51 56 86 73 66 804
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   20 5 6 7 5 6 6 5 17 30 35 57 66 96 152 252 765
AUSTRIA   214 16 14 6 17 17 23 27 34 24 45 57 45 72 58 82 751
INDIA   14 1 2 4 6 3 6 13 12 14 39 23 63 81 101 119 501
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   27 4 8 7 6 10 26 18 21 28 25 38 46 43 43 56 406
U.S.S.R.   383 6 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 392
IRELAND   56 5 9 15 19 12 9 13 31 16 35 30 28 41 34 35 388
MALAYSIA   7 2 0 0 4 1 8 8 20 18 18 27 40 58 89 84 384
DENMARK   110 7 5 6 6 2 10 8 20 18 29 25 12 29 24 34 345
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   1 5 13 7 9 24 29 22 37 31 32 17 16 23 18 19 303
NORWAY   91 4 4 7 8 9 7 10 12 13 12 14 18 21 29 34 293
HUNGARY   81 2 1 1 3 5 4 3 1 5 11 5 5 4 4 5 140
SPAIN   32 2 0 6 7 2 0 6 9 8 4 7 12 11 7 10 123
SOUTH AFRICA   65 3 3 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 3 6 2 3 3 7 115
NEW ZEALAND   19 1 3 2 5 3 2 7 6 5 3 6 4 4 5 3 78
PHILIPPINES   2 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 2 3 10 11 11 13 9 8 75
POLAND   29 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 4 0 1 3 6 4 14 67
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   64 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
MEXICO   21 2 1 2 1 0 1 3 4 3 2 4 6 1 2 3 56
BRAZIL   14 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 5 4 3 4 5 45
THAILAND   2 0 0 3 1 0 2 2 1 4 2 3 3 6 4 4 37
Others (67)   144 15 9 12 8 9 12 11 13 16 17 26 15 30 39 33 409
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   98553 5174 5598 5892 6110 8604 9403 10237 11794 12150 12687 12879 11613 12941 11782 11561 246978
U.S. GOVERNMENT   6642 224 176 145 133 141 114 146 114 116 96 108 81 77 106 85 8504
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   6998 311 386 374 371 466 424 441 446 446 464 401 350 485 379 388 13130
FOREIGN CORPORATION   52268 5302 5631 5882 6311 8966 9864 11233 12851 13993 14897 15715 14022 16837 16579 17045 227396
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1152 42 33 33 29 47 21 14 13 28 15 11 14 7 19 7 1485
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3108 136 139 150 138 230 219 234 281 295 332 278 259 306 256 255 6616

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3344. SEMICONDUCTOR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   189877 13966 16833 18872 23097 23769 25312 27760 31572 33460 32651 29525 22181 11956 3162 116 504109
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   114311 6620 8298 8851 11124 11251 11865 13035 14218 14549 13853 12404 9432 4819 1322 51 256003
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   75566 7346 8535 10021 11973 12518 13447 14725 17354 18911 18798 17121 12749 7137 1840 65 248106
JAPAN   39796 4888 5390 5829 6994 6811 6994 8260 9445 9545 9369 8185 6014 3323 967 31 131841
KOREA, SOUTH   1162 432 630 1166 1280 1399 1390 1548 1862 2225 2699 3082 2319 1256 259 7 22716
GERMANY   9901 396 457 532 627 724 795 935 1227 1532 1254 950 780 370 63 2 20545
TAIWAN   513 361 494 806 1031 1565 1916 1302 1705 2098 2315 2405 1825 1109 316 14 19775
FRANCE   6034 274 346 324 384 359 415 475 425 545 508 372 210 121 23 1 10816
UNITED KINGDOM   6184 244 283 287 350 316 363 405 532 604 450 302 189 110 23 2 10644
NETHERLANDS   3757 170 178 203 200 178 209 224 307 322 257 173 72 23 7 0 6280
CANADA   1891 124 145 182 216 261 248 281 329 367 368 258 223 131 37 0 5061
ITALY   1288 113 186 181 218 197 226 243 264 236 232 168 130 81 18 1 3782
SWITZERLAND   1548 57 54 62 66 68 86 105 104 113 97 77 43 29 8 3 2520
SWEDEN   843 41 70 73 149 138 135 155 141 136 87 71 48 19 0 0 2106
ISRAEL   303 60 69 83 103 80 158 148 197 194 180 132 116 51 15 1 1890
SINGAPORE   62 21 30 62 84 86 142 186 223 254 190 185 132 71 12 0 1740
FINLAND   204 30 35 54 50 48 63 83 97 88 96 65 36 8 1 0 958
BELGIUM   311 16 26 40 26 47 42 49 58 73 82 58 36 22 3 0 889
AUSTRALIA   220 14 17 26 26 65 33 58 60 81 66 58 55 19 6 0 804
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   30 9 6 5 7 9 12 24 46 78 64 137 152 156 28 2 765
AUSTRIA   242 9 19 15 18 31 30 32 50 61 71 73 49 41 10 0 751
INDIA   17 3 8 3 9 8 14 18 30 63 83 91 92 52 10 0 501
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   38 9 10 10 27 17 22 26 35 47 58 42 39 21 5 0 406
U.S.S.R.   390 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 392
IRELAND   64 21 21 11 18 19 16 26 29 44 34 29 34 14 7 1 388
MALAYSIA   10 1 3 2 8 5 19 19 28 31 70 78 61 38 11 0 384
DENMARK   123 5 7 2 10 13 22 21 31 37 31 27 5 9 2 0 345
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   16 10 9 26 32 26 32 34 41 18 30 13 8 8 0 0 303
NORWAY   103 3 10 6 8 11 12 11 22 27 21 16 23 20 0 0 293
HUNGARY   84 1 6 4 3 2 4 9 8 5 4 6 3 0 1 0 140
SPAIN   36 3 5 6 3 4 11 7 8 6 12 10 6 5 1 0 123
SOUTH AFRICA   70 6 1 3 4 3 7 1 1 6 4 3 1 4 1 0 115
NEW ZEALAND   23 6 2 3 4 6 5 6 7 6 4 1 4 1 0 0 78
PHILIPPINES   2 0 1 0 4 1 1 7 8 15 15 11 7 2 1 0 75
POLAND   29 0 0 2 0 1 6 1 1 9 8 6 2 2 0 0 67
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   65 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
MEXICO   23 3 2 0 1 3 3 1 6 4 4 2 3 1 0 0 56
BRAZIL   15 2 1 1 0 0 2 2 3 6 4 1 6 2 0 0 45
THAILAND   2 2 3 0 1 4 0 4 3 3 6 3 4 1 1 0 37
Others (67)   167 11 10 12 11 13 14 19 21 32 25 31 22 17 4 0 409
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   108465 6506 8134 8783 11010 10975 11592 12660 13879 14370 13462 11906 9116 4773 1293 54 246978
U.S. GOVERNMENT   7033 149 185 135 111 147 103 100 114 107 99 78 85 46 11 1 8504
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   7681 402 505 427 476 436 429 485 461 469 426 411 315 159 45 3 13130
FOREIGN CORPORATION   62102 6719 7798 9271 11237 11941 12880 14200 16723 18139 18303 16882 12481 6889 1773 58 227396
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1224 35 32 43 26 20 20 15 16 12 20 13 5 4 0 0 1485
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3372 155 179 213 237 250 288 300 379 363 341 235 179 85 40 0 6616

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   232081 12990 12832 13621 13136 17742 17299 18138 19715 20974 23165 21885 19227 22691 21082 21091 507669
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   149107 7712 7598 8070 7714 10472 10297 10570 11328 11807 12942 12154 10564 12303 11222 10949 304809
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   82974 5278 5234 5551 5422 7270 7002 7568 8387 9167 10223 9731 8663 10388 9860 10142 202860
JAPAN   31351 2684 2617 2756 2597 3392 3285 3353 3640 4077 4455 4262 3809 4646 4221 4327 85472
GERMANY   16375 781 769 776 788 1058 1044 1201 1423 1526 1822 1671 1492 1635 1609 1578 35548
UNITED KINGDOM   8555 326 320 327 364 418 388 425 495 500 520 493 459 487 468 388 14933
FRANCE   6865 322 332 316 323 415 353 402 393 407 430 372 381 412 399 456 12578
CANADA   3249 220 241 253 269 339 318 347 412 411 472 445 332 436 383 409 8536
SWITZERLAND   3660 151 111 151 114 150 132 197 171 195 205 233 166 204 221 250 6311
SWEDEN   2189 92 131 117 111 144 150 181 198 208 188 182 180 196 182 164 4613
KOREA, SOUTH   134 50 81 109 132 264 250 247 266 312 326 397 372 487 507 613 4547
TAIWAN   327 73 79 76 93 172 204 241 253 305 366 379 367 456 417 418 4226
NETHERLANDS   1883 107 102 114 103 162 151 170 173 189 169 172 129 165 172 227 4188
ISRAEL   717 70 69 72 82 148 132 149 258 234 272 223 183 264 245 251 3369
ITALY   1542 101 68 87 85 104 89 93 136 147 166 143 118 142 145 139 3305
AUSTRALIA   904 58 67 65 52 102 76 79 79 99 110 113 87 144 145 116 2296
BELGIUM   905 38 37 61 67 73 85 80 65 84 74 53 50 65 88 72 1897
FINLAND   501 54 44 63 60 71 67 70 75 87 110 87 75 78 86 74 1602
AUSTRIA   658 29 34 31 33 33 38 40 42 51 66 58 56 75 65 66 1375
DENMARK   511 29 22 24 34 37 62 58 57 54 79 80 53 89 59 49 1297
U.S.S.R.   784 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 791
NORWAY   204 15 15 22 17 25 21 33 30 33 65 52 40 48 48 59 727
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   46 6 4 8 2 9 9 5 7 11 18 34 28 64 71 135 457
SINGAPORE   9 3 7 9 4 17 17 33 27 39 52 46 44 29 41 46 423
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 5 18 19 14 31 27 28 40 32 42 27 26 27 38 25 399
SPAIN   109 11 9 20 11 16 6 20 14 17 14 13 23 17 22 31 353
INDIA   18 2 1 2 3 7 9 6 9 11 30 36 35 33 48 53 303
SOUTH AFRICA   178 6 9 11 4 10 9 11 9 5 5 11 2 13 7 8 298
IRELAND   65 2 2 8 9 8 11 19 10 16 21 23 20 27 24 23 288
NEW ZEALAND   97 0 5 4 8 9 11 14 12 16 15 20 16 12 20 18 277
HUNGARY   192 1 4 1 3 4 7 1 9 4 5 5 4 4 5 7 256
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   48 1 2 4 2 2 3 9 12 18 20 20 27 24 27 31 250
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   233 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 236
MEXICO   61 1 6 3 4 4 5 7 8 2 10 10 11 14 12 4 162
BRAZIL   35 3 2 4 8 7 9 6 10 4 14 11 5 17 9 6 150
POLAND   76 1 1 5 0 2 1 2 0 1 2 4 2 5 6 9 117
MALAYSIA   7 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 4 13 9 7 11 10 16 17 101
ARGENTINA   41 3 4 1 5 4 2 4 4 3 12 4 2 3 2 2 96
LUXEMBOURG   45 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 4 4 7 7 0 1 2 77
Others (86)   400 26 19 30 18 33 30 30 44 52 55 38 51 60 51 69 1006
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   115708 6326 6257 6756 6631 8978 8944 9280 10192 10464 11518 10955 9644 11236 10268 10153 253310
U.S. GOVERNMENT   10192 375 253 281 222 272 242 230 236 236 254 224 173 209 196 165 13760
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   28318 1280 1346 1339 1179 1569 1428 1436 1326 1348 1394 1213 977 1089 968 958 47168
FOREIGN CORPORATION   66151 4526 4487 4800 4640 6289 6150 6662 7374 8315 9375 8966 8012 9687 9207 9428 174069
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1829 56 75 62 63 57 39 17 17 25 17 21 12 19 22 8 2339
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   9883 427 414 383 401 577 496 513 570 586 607 506 409 451 421 379 17023

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   256891 15188 17104 16838 19406 19849 21446 23810 25579 25614 23098 19205 13807 7798 1972 64 507669
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   163988 9027 10399 9744 11452 11456 12484 13386 14024 13564 12416 10249 7471 4102 1009 38 304809
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   92903 6161 6705 7094 7954 8393 8962 10424 11555 12050 10682 8956 6336 3696 963 26 202860
JAPAN   36322 2947 3195 3360 3709 3630 3718 4522 4987 4868 4609 4114 3195 1752 531 13 85472
GERMANY   17805 901 975 1029 1243 1351 1533 1775 1999 2280 1770 1415 874 487 107 4 35548
UNITED KINGDOM   9218 397 412 422 472 472 520 619 635 643 510 294 204 101 14 0 14933
FRANCE   7503 378 433 370 381 432 449 444 479 571 502 308 190 102 36 0 12578
CANADA   3689 280 388 316 333 398 432 486 508 511 434 337 255 143 25 1 8536
SWITZERLAND   3901 156 149 150 170 201 206 230 252 245 237 177 121 86 29 1 6311
SWEDEN   2397 147 123 132 185 198 220 234 267 268 192 137 68 40 5 0 4613
KOREA, SOUTH   244 130 145 277 247 287 273 335 368 476 542 564 352 267 40 0 4547
TAIWAN   441 76 99 172 190 275 312 311 337 436 447 482 344 237 64 3 4226
NETHERLANDS   2088 130 120 155 179 172 194 205 238 211 194 160 84 46 11 1 4188
ISRAEL   859 84 114 140 156 218 275 280 336 299 213 164 137 74 20 0 3369
ITALY   1719 85 85 117 96 130 136 142 190 205 156 118 71 46 9 0 3305
AUSTRALIA   1039 70 67 72 106 104 99 137 157 145 127 97 39 26 9 2 2296
BELGIUM   975 64 96 82 74 84 83 90 73 81 72 53 35 30 5 0 1897
FINLAND   597 70 69 72 75 73 94 81 126 122 99 62 38 22 2 0 1602
AUSTRIA   709 47 40 33 36 41 50 71 66 86 65 60 37 31 3 0 1375
DENMARK   561 34 35 40 71 72 73 86 100 97 71 37 12 8 0 0 1297
U.S.S.R.   790 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 791
NORWAY   232 18 29 16 31 27 52 51 64 69 58 45 17 14 4 0 727
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   57 6 7 6 10 4 10 15 34 45 38 60 67 81 16 1 457
SINGAPORE   18 8 9 16 20 36 34 53 50 49 47 26 37 14 6 0 423
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   12 31 26 20 35 32 40 46 45 35 30 23 17 6 1 0 399
SPAIN   130 20 14 8 17 16 17 20 18 27 32 16 11 5 2 0 353
INDIA   21 4 2 4 9 11 12 22 30 49 50 37 27 21 4 0 303
SOUTH AFRICA   195 10 3 12 9 11 6 12 9 11 9 6 1 3 1 0 298
IRELAND   70 9 7 13 18 17 9 20 22 34 24 22 14 6 3 0 288
NEW ZEALAND   101 7 4 10 16 15 13 23 25 20 19 12 6 6 0 0 277
HUNGARY   195 3 4 4 6 6 6 3 5 8 6 5 4 0 1 0 256
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   49 4 3 3 5 10 13 16 25 35 29 31 15 9 3 0 250
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   236 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 236
MEXICO   68 3 5 4 7 8 2 7 10 12 9 13 11 3 0 0 162
BRAZIL   39 5 10 7 7 6 14 9 10 14 17 3 5 4 0 0 150
POLAND   78 5 0 2 0 3 1 2 1 10 4 5 4 2 0 0 117
MALAYSIA   7 0 1 0 1 7 9 8 10 11 10 16 12 4 5 0 101
ARGENTINA   46 3 6 4 3 4 6 7 8 3 0 2 1 2 1 0 96
LUXEMBOURG   46 1 1 0 1 0 4 4 7 4 5 1 3 0 0 0 77
Others (86)   446 28 28 26 36 42 47 58 64 70 55 54 28 18 6 0 1006
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   127945 7592 8817 8544 9980 10139 11194 11942 12655 12314 11402 9234 6891 3737 892 32 253310
U.S. GOVERNMENT   10875 268 313 237 252 237 222 237 262 246 189 194 136 72 20 0 13760
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   30734 1497 1637 1342 1574 1484 1451 1451 1368 1329 1139 957 666 426 109 4 47168
FOREIGN CORPORATION   74722 5281 5774 6155 7011 7420 7923 9487 10623 11033 9884 8489 5873 3441 926 27 174069
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1942 80 68 49 42 25 19 33 21 20 23 13 3 1 0 0 2339
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   10673 470 495 511 547 544 637 660 650 672 461 318 238 121 25 1 17023

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3343,3346 . OTHER COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   66279 4279 4399 4539 4252 5839 5730 5823 5620 5784 6155 6880 5632 8049 7275 7222 153757
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   32105 1440 1522 1600 1501 2065 2098 2324 2184 2251 2378 2542 2055 2911 2572 2307 63855
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   34174 2839 2877 2939 2751 3774 3632 3499 3436 3533 3777 4338 3577 5138 4703 4915 89902
JAPAN   22229 2115 2114 2153 1966 2682 2548 2386 2303 2361 2539 2933 2430 3325 2943 3064 60091
GERMANY   3837 141 148 121 122 153 179 198 171 171 170 161 129 224 163 178 6266
KOREA, SOUTH   386 201 205 262 278 389 331 295 298 293 284 341 258 493 544 668 5526
UNITED KINGDOM   1991 92 99 77 76 93 85 92 123 112 108 124 107 126 115 91 3511
NETHERLANDS   1424 47 69 61 46 88 67 85 68 78 86 96 68 132 101 87 2603
FRANCE   1222 51 65 62 63 77 100 73 81 88 82 85 65 89 86 62 2351
TAIWAN   80 29 11 34 36 61 73 70 79 138 140 153 172 246 288 283 1893
CANADA   486 20 23 34 23 36 41 60 50 34 55 75 52 80 77 75 1221
BELGIUM   626 24 29 23 26 42 47 51 51 35 27 19 12 24 21 10 1067
SWITZERLAND   513 20 18 14 12 20 21 27 17 11 19 23 21 25 18 25 804
ITALY   431 24 19 23 26 17 22 24 33 25 28 23 16 22 17 18 768
SWEDEN   164 10 14 16 14 15 26 31 34 39 42 31 37 35 37 35 580
FINLAND   24 10 16 19 14 30 22 20 25 40 32 53 49 68 59 54 535
AUSTRIA   266 9 5 6 10 5 7 15 17 22 33 16 11 28 17 21 488
ISRAEL   55 13 14 15 16 20 13 19 28 24 22 36 21 38 33 35 402
SINGAPORE   11 5 2 1 8 8 9 15 18 20 47 72 41 49 41 45 392
AUSTRALIA   68 4 7 3 0 6 5 7 5 10 16 31 22 40 45 34 303
DENMARK   65 5 0 3 0 3 5 5 3 4 10 8 8 13 11 21 164
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   7 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 4 5 10 11 22 30 39 134
NORWAY   34 9 13 3 2 2 10 8 7 5 3 6 6 7 7 2 124
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   13 1 1 2 4 6 1 3 6 2 9 12 11 12 16 17 116
U.S.S.R.   67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67
IRELAND   10 1 2 1 0 3 2 1 2 3 6 6 5 3 4 7 56
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 1 2 0 2 6 4 4 2 6 5 1 5 5 5 49
INDIA   6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 4 8 12 42
SPAIN   8 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 2 3 4 3 2 6 36
MALAYSIA   2 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 1 0 1 2 9 2 10 33
BRAZIL   11 2 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 26
ARGENTINA   17 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 24
HUNGARY   17 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 20
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19
SOUTH AFRICA   7 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 19
MEXICO   9 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 18
NEW ZEALAND   2 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 2 1 17
GREECE   3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 3 1 16
BULGARIA   14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
Others (37)   50 2 1 1 3 5 3 2 4 3 2 5 4 8 7 7 107
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   30368 1439 1536 1589 1473 2051 2065 2253 2160 2134 2237 2324 1853 2544 2242 2038 60306
U.S. GOVERNMENT   924 16 14 10 3 8 13 8 8 7 8 12 15 6 11 11 1074
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3861 123 146 161 137 189 170 175 130 149 140 152 98 151 129 117 6028
FOREIGN CORPORATION   29427 2646 2651 2721 2584 3499 3419 3310 3254 3409 3683 4317 3612 5263 4818 4996 83609
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   166 5 1 3 5 3 2 1 3 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 196
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1533 50 51 55 50 89 61 76 65 85 86 73 52 85 73 60 2544

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3343,3346 . OTHER COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   74585 5289 5620 6274 7385 6737 6815 7537 7971 7486 6910 5721 3431 1561 416 19 153757
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   34931 1815 2071 2194 2681 2709 2619 2798 2976 2628 2461 2022 1208 578 157 7 63855
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   39654 3474 3549 4080 4704 4028 4196 4739 4995 4858 4449 3699 2223 983 259 12 89902
JAPAN   26277 2556 2578 2855 3327 2627 2799 3144 3338 3160 2826 2292 1479 646 180 7 60091
GERMANY   4098 149 161 166 222 219 226 234 242 210 137 118 50 30 4 0 6266
KOREA, SOUTH   809 274 322 446 442 383 322 372 358 346 513 496 255 148 38 2 5526
UNITED KINGDOM   2179 97 90 100 122 137 133 157 159 143 91 46 43 12 2 0 3511
NETHERLANDS   1536 82 65 92 94 90 89 95 130 143 108 55 20 4 0 0 2603
FRANCE   1331 78 73 98 94 74 120 117 97 122 73 48 18 8 0 0 2351
TAIWAN   118 27 44 61 81 98 119 139 163 258 256 288 157 67 16 1 1893
CANADA   530 35 35 44 59 76 59 78 73 67 63 56 32 13 1 0 1221
BELGIUM   663 35 32 44 48 55 54 38 28 22 24 17 7 0 0 0 1067
SWITZERLAND   542 22 20 22 23 25 25 19 25 26 30 14 5 5 0 1 804
ITALY   471 27 29 24 24 20 35 33 30 29 16 13 12 4 1 0 768
SWEDEN   188 21 17 18 46 42 45 56 30 38 46 21 10 2 0 0 580
FINLAND   52 18 21 38 32 35 42 58 73 61 60 26 16 2 1 0 535
AUSTRIA   281 6 12 8 8 17 23 22 28 29 14 15 17 8 0 0 488
ISRAEL   81 19 16 19 22 37 29 31 51 34 27 20 14 2 0 0 402
SINGAPORE   19 3 8 7 14 23 31 46 87 39 43 34 24 10 4 0 392
AUSTRALIA   76 4 6 6 8 30 2 28 16 32 32 37 16 5 5 0 303
DENMARK   72 0 1 7 2 8 9 7 13 16 13 11 3 1 1 0 164
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   8 2 0 2 0 1 0 11 13 18 23 33 14 6 3 0 134
NORWAY   56 4 2 3 10 11 4 8 8 6 4 4 4 0 0 0 124
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   14 4 4 5 4 2 6 5 13 20 12 16 7 4 0 0 116
U.S.S.R.   67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67
IRELAND   12 2 1 2 3 2 1 9 5 7 5 5 2 0 0 0 56
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   1 3 0 3 6 3 2 12 3 4 2 7 2 1 0 0 49
INDIA   6 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 6 7 10 3 1 2 1 42
SPAIN   8 0 1 2 1 1 2 4 3 4 3 4 3 0 0 0 36
MALAYSIA   2 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 1 2 11 5 3 1 1 0 33
BRAZIL   13 1 0 3 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 26
ARGENTINA   18 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 24
HUNGARY   17 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19
SOUTH AFRICA   8 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 19
MEXICO   10 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 18
NEW ZEALAND   2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 17
GREECE   3 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 16
BULGARIA   14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
Others (37)   53 1 6 2 4 5 8 4 0 10 5 3 4 2 0 0 107
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   33133 1798 2054 2212 2588 2583 2479 2611 2758 2445 2206 1751 1087 461 131 9 60306
U.S. GOVERNMENT   956 12 5 9 12 11 7 6 14 11 14 7 5 4 1 0 1074
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4145 189 191 167 204 179 165 172 150 156 133 94 48 29 5 1 6028
FOREIGN CORPORATION   34550 3222 3289 3805 4489 3894 4070 4639 4955 4787 4496 3822 2248 1059 275 9 83609
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   173 3 6 3 0 3 1 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 196
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1628 65 75 78 92 67 93 106 93 87 60 45 43 8 4 0 2544

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 335. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, APPLIANCE, AND COMPONENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   211991 8899 8899 9365 9855 12896 13821 14683 15768 16238 16680 17210 15470 17528 16015 15669 420987
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   137645 4800 4767 4911 5035 6318 6801 7027 7526 7478 7755 7927 7092 7810 7090 6759 236741
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   74346 4099 4132 4454 4820 6578 7020 7656 8242 8760 8925 9283 8378 9718 8925 8910 184246
JAPAN   26866 2186 2205 2306 2502 3254 3403 3676 3941 4377 4468 4581 4085 4625 4131 3992 80598
GERMANY   14696 510 471 535 551 760 843 980 1060 1078 1116 1195 1003 1013 896 906 27613
FRANCE   6757 308 248 274 266 351 416 413 380 400 350 312 269 314 279 253 11590
TAIWAN   839 166 216 228 262 406 468 768 887 848 839 977 892 1221 1184 1158 11359
UNITED KINGDOM   7457 154 171 186 182 255 262 232 262 248 251 226 244 234 212 192 10768
KOREA, SOUTH   336 113 137 162 256 509 531 393 376 412 435 533 555 787 801 905 7241
CANADA   3366 160 162 167 187 260 242 263 268 280 293 306 310 315 331 272 7182
SWITZERLAND   2704 78 76 94 86 108 117 111 123 116 102 123 71 84 91 89 4173
ITALY   1903 80 60 93 101 132 97 146 145 155 155 154 140 168 133 137 3799
SWEDEN   2107 62 45 75 61 76 130 114 140 151 129 91 78 100 78 69 3506
NETHERLANDS   2133 57 70 71 58 103 113 107 91 107 107 88 67 94 93 101 3460
AUSTRIA   510 21 23 25 27 25 41 40 33 38 47 61 49 68 42 43 1093
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   47 6 6 3 5 4 8 19 56 83 88 107 100 162 143 250 1087
AUSTRALIA   493 26 27 26 28 38 35 26 42 38 44 56 39 58 42 59 1077
ISRAEL   267 27 40 31 31 31 44 49 55 70 92 63 71 63 69 65 1068
FINLAND   281 26 26 26 35 46 46 53 59 64 60 46 48 61 60 44 981
U.S.S.R.   914 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 921
BELGIUM   418 12 31 31 27 39 39 49 37 30 41 37 31 26 24 23 895
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   154 17 20 19 17 42 30 42 48 41 52 62 64 54 71 57 790
DENMARK   439 13 12 8 14 15 18 26 26 23 33 36 30 23 34 36 786
SPAIN   209 11 6 13 22 14 15 21 28 29 25 33 27 32 20 30 535
NORWAY   215 5 9 6 7 12 16 12 16 13 11 19 23 21 17 20 422
SINGAPORE   35 6 9 16 13 11 18 13 22 24 37 36 42 37 44 54 417
SOUTH AFRICA   176 7 13 11 12 8 6 5 9 11 7 4 8 12 2 5 296
IRELAND   74 6 4 5 8 10 11 14 24 17 15 17 11 24 9 15 264
NEW ZEALAND   80 8 3 4 12 16 9 8 9 15 8 18 11 13 9 5 228
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 5 14 8 11 12 19 26 23 17 19 14 14 11 9 16 218
BRAZIL   69 6 3 7 8 3 5 6 14 14 18 12 10 9 9 11 204
HUNGARY   125 3 5 1 3 5 2 2 3 4 6 2 5 4 4 3 177
INDIA   23 0 1 2 3 3 2 6 9 9 6 12 20 17 24 39 176
MEXICO   72 3 0 4 3 5 6 3 9 5 14 8 12 6 9 6 165
MALAYSIA   6 1 1 0 5 2 5 6 7 11 12 9 10 12 18 18 123
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   106 1 1 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115
ARGENTINA   50 1 4 2 0 1 0 4 4 1 4 2 1 2 4 0 80
POLAND   49 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 1 1 64
ROMANIA   45 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 61
Others (77)   325 9 10 12 14 18 21 23 33 29 40 37 33 43 31 36 714
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   115423 4062 4101 4209 4459 5562 6083 6179 6672 6582 6799 7083 6355 6950 6294 6122 202935
U.S. GOVERNMENT   4737 172 115 98 76 78 77 84 94 71 59 69 53 65 70 49 5967
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   23168 778 774 846 767 1011 1020 1075 992 931 957 882 793 906 804 701 36405
FOREIGN CORPORATION   58512 3515 3484 3799 4111 5660 6115 6740 7357 8014 8286 8579 7760 9052 8370 8396 157750
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   826 32 23 21 16 23 12 6 6 15 16 8 7 4 8 5 1028
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   9325 340 402 392 426 562 514 599 647 625 563 589 502 551 469 396 16902

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 335. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, APPLIANCE, AND COMPONENTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   227859 10460 11229 12358 14461 14565 16194 17639 19462 19859 18654 15789 12382 7520 2432 124 420987
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   146142 5494 5860 6067 7100 7150 7784 8313 8768 8786 8285 6991 5642 3242 1070 47 236741
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   81717 4966 5369 6291 7361 7415 8410 9326 10694 11073 10369 8798 6740 4278 1362 77 184246
JAPAN   30844 2634 2742 3189 3684 3608 3879 4717 5228 5145 4874 4089 3322 1983 636 24 80598
GERMANY   15581 570 656 736 811 933 1151 1204 1363 1555 1260 860 544 291 95 3 27613
FRANCE   7289 284 299 335 435 393 397 432 426 410 389 249 146 86 18 2 11590
TAIWAN   1097 247 279 347 445 590 948 756 1016 993 1098 1178 1064 938 341 22 11359
UNITED KINGDOM   7745 202 237 227 273 249 293 263 308 390 258 180 75 54 11 3 10768
KOREA, SOUTH   549 183 249 476 525 473 379 454 514 683 846 849 679 295 81 6 7241
CANADA   3645 197 214 237 266 279 270 316 358 344 379 294 214 131 38 0 7182
SWITZERLAND   2841 96 110 102 112 112 131 122 135 129 102 81 52 37 7 4 4173
ITALY   2047 85 104 120 134 114 129 185 214 218 184 133 84 38 9 1 3799
SWEDEN   2202 71 77 73 129 160 142 159 141 141 92 62 32 23 2 0 3506
NETHERLANDS   2251 76 84 87 122 94 108 105 141 138 120 90 24 17 3 0 3460
AUSTRIA   549 27 32 22 38 30 42 47 68 74 69 52 22 18 3 0 1093
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   56 5 5 2 12 7 44 48 122 128 97 160 149 170 72 10 1087
AUSTRALIA   541 34 22 46 35 31 42 46 66 78 61 51 15 7 2 0 1077
ISRAEL   325 43 31 36 46 46 76 74 100 102 63 56 46 18 6 0 1068
FINLAND   336 21 42 51 45 42 64 62 87 57 65 48 39 22 0 0 981
U.S.S.R.   919 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 921
BELGIUM   455 35 28 43 44 49 32 38 43 34 49 22 14 7 2 0 895
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   184 28 17 33 31 32 52 41 62 79 71 75 48 29 8 0 790
DENMARK   464 7 17 10 26 22 34 24 43 51 33 29 13 9 4 0 786
SPAIN   226 15 17 13 21 16 24 27 30 45 35 35 14 15 2 0 535
NORWAY   230 4 9 10 15 10 19 17 16 35 23 15 9 8 2 0 422
SINGAPORE   45 19 14 14 18 14 17 33 45 52 41 44 30 21 8 2 417
SOUTH AFRICA   191 17 12 6 9 6 9 7 13 12 5 5 1 3 0 0 296
IRELAND   81 12 8 11 15 15 13 14 23 24 15 14 13 5 1 0 264
NEW ZEALAND   92 8 13 11 8 9 9 14 21 14 9 14 4 2 0 0 228
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   11 14 15 12 20 20 32 23 14 15 20 7 6 8 1 0 218
BRAZIL   78 10 3 4 3 9 11 19 12 23 16 6 6 2 2 0 204
HUNGARY   131 3 2 5 1 4 3 7 4 8 3 4 2 0 0 0 177
INDIA   25 1 1 5 2 3 12 9 11 15 23 26 27 13 3 0 176
MEXICO   77 2 5 6 2 7 3 10 13 10 13 5 6 5 1 0 165
MALAYSIA   7 1 4 3 9 3 10 14 8 10 13 18 18 3 2 0 123
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   108 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115
ARGENTINA   53 2 2 1 2 3 3 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 0 0 80
POLAND   51 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 64
ROMANIA   45 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 61
Others (77)   346 8 17 15 20 30 30 36 43 55 34 42 18 18 2 0 714
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   122722 4739 5097 5415 6412 6414 6864 7393 7751 7886 7328 6185 4929 2842 909 49 202935
U.S. GOVERNMENT   5001 114 110 62 89 87 75 79 74 54 67 47 66 31 11 0 5967
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   24477 935 940 914 1015 954 1060 1024 1013 994 992 850 709 393 131 4 36405
FOREIGN CORPORATION   64848 4210 4608 5426 6379 6573 7562 8497 9918 10239 9627 8200 6306 3990 1298 69 157750
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   875 19 22 25 7 11 14 10 13 12 9 5 3 2 1 0 1028
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   9936 443 452 516 559 526 619 636 693 674 631 502 369 262 82 2 16902

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 336. TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   165639 6657 6605 7365 6855 8699 9357 10390 11777 11746 11325 10698 10020 11082 10229 9665 308109
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   94641 3422 3408 3835 3323 4105 4338 4842 5259 5332 5077 4782 4492 4977 4507 4071 160411
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   70998 3235 3197 3530 3532 4594 5019 5548 6518 6414 6248 5916 5528 6105 5722 5594 147698
JAPAN   26168 1556 1415 1569 1618 2032 2308 2407 2745 2778 2681 2674 2536 2854 2716 2630 60687
GERMANY   16959 703 723 820 774 1100 1215 1451 1806 1697 1659 1473 1299 1348 1203 1220 35450
UNITED KINGDOM   7784 131 175 154 153 173 164 228 274 238 201 182 203 197 189 155 10601
FRANCE   6266 195 189 207 180 266 257 311 321 308 289 297 222 296 271 264 10139
CANADA   3146 143 129 152 137 167 200 216 277 227 268 251 254 274 264 224 6329
TAIWAN   517 125 157 171 139 182 197 219 244 298 256 263 213 249 223 227 3680
SWEDEN   2053 61 69 69 62 103 92 125 134 128 133 117 106 114 120 130 3616
ITALY   1757 59 56 50 61 77 87 107 113 119 127 112 96 133 107 106 3167
KOREA, SOUTH   138 39 40 73 125 179 193 117 130 186 173 157 200 240 252 215 2457
SWITZERLAND   1367 44 31 34 37 39 38 45 60 51 61 37 33 51 36 43 2007
AUSTRIA   847 25 40 29 34 20 41 44 60 55 73 60 55 57 38 44 1522
AUSTRALIA   670 24 39 45 44 52 39 50 47 63 57 57 56 54 45 46 1388
NETHERLANDS   711 30 18 27 28 29 31 29 51 55 41 45 43 35 29 32 1234
SPAIN   246 7 11 15 12 23 15 24 22 15 20 12 23 19 31 30 525
FINLAND   232 11 16 12 19 19 10 19 22 24 21 21 20 21 15 12 494
BELGIUM   202 7 8 9 11 20 17 25 17 14 22 10 23 24 16 22 447
NORWAY   207 10 11 9 13 14 16 16 24 20 19 21 19 13 14 14 440
ISRAEL   178 13 15 12 18 16 19 12 24 22 25 12 12 11 22 19 430
DENMARK   185 5 4 11 9 13 11 15 19 17 19 13 12 9 17 12 371
U.S.S.R.   261 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 266
SOUTH AFRICA   160 8 5 9 5 7 5 6 9 5 6 4 3 3 1 4 240
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   38 5 6 4 2 1 7 9 12 9 7 11 22 13 18 40 204
NEW ZEALAND   77 1 1 4 6 5 4 6 8 11 6 14 15 8 11 10 187
BRAZIL   57 3 6 4 7 5 4 10 14 8 13 5 3 9 3 3 154
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   34 2 8 7 4 5 1 3 13 8 10 12 10 11 11 12 151
HUNGARY   99 0 1 1 0 1 5 4 3 1 3 2 3 4 1 2 130
MEXICO   66 1 2 3 4 3 2 5 12 5 2 3 3 2 6 8 127
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 2 6 9 6 7 7 11 18 14 9 7 2 3 5 6 112
ARGENTINA   56 4 2 1 2 1 4 1 6 7 4 2 0 4 2 5 101
IRELAND   48 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 12 3 2 5 5 4 2 3 101
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   71 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
POLAND   53 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 3 5 70
INDIA   22 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 3 4 4 6 13 7 69
SINGAPORE   5 1 0 4 2 2 3 4 1 6 6 2 3 2 4 4 49
GREECE   20 2 0 3 0 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 39
LUXEMBOURG   14 0 1 0 3 2 1 1 2 0 2 3 4 2 0 2 37
Others (84)   284 9 8 8 13 24 19 22 13 20 28 26 22 33 33 38 600
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   61710 2342 2331 2740 2379 2910 3165 3542 4084 4135 3978 3753 3518 3864 3687 3304 111442
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2465 64 59 42 45 46 51 59 61 67 60 45 53 41 33 35 3226
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   32357 1056 1057 1130 968 1247 1262 1394 1306 1254 1176 1090 1031 1158 937 809 49232
FOREIGN CORPORATION   58204 2782 2744 3034 3064 4022 4405 4864 5779 5772 5627 5374 5017 5608 5221 5158 126675
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   685 29 18 20 16 9 4 3 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 789
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   10218 384 396 399 383 465 470 528 546 516 483 436 400 411 351 359 16745

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 336. TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   176763 7444 8331 8855 10004 10129 10576 11688 12542 13506 13060 11467 8596 3977 1139 32 308109
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   100355 3849 4250 4146 4537 4634 4784 5353 5410 5843 5624 5287 3980 1801 537 21 160411
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   76408 3595 4081 4709 5467 5495 5792 6335 7132 7663 7436 6180 4616 2176 602 11 147698
JAPAN   28725 1572 1817 2127 2544 2466 2331 2631 3069 3209 3220 3119 2368 1144 342 3 60687
GERMANY   18145 839 937 1073 1319 1405 1698 1716 1896 2006 1781 1240 879 409 107 0 35450
UNITED KINGDOM   8042 185 174 170 183 220 253 263 242 278 254 179 101 48 9 0 10601
FRANCE   6625 198 208 287 286 274 311 316 300 407 377 297 181 63 9 0 10139
CANADA   3376 151 157 172 196 237 208 280 296 311 332 281 212 96 24 0 6329
TAIWAN   685 175 189 175 204 189 235 264 295 284 304 255 245 142 35 4 3680
SWEDEN   2160 73 80 87 107 117 128 131 153 178 170 88 87 46 11 0 3616
ITALY   1858 54 64 82 99 96 101 125 149 137 157 102 92 36 15 0 3167
KOREA, SOUTH   200 64 128 199 196 108 118 176 168 247 302 261 203 65 20 2 2457
SWITZERLAND   1425 36 42 44 51 48 48 49 66 55 52 46 25 19 1 0 2007
AUSTRIA   888 41 28 37 28 54 55 52 75 101 74 44 32 6 5 2 1522
AUSTRALIA   728 38 56 58 42 49 50 53 80 95 70 44 17 6 2 0 1388
NETHERLANDS   752 31 30 28 36 30 41 56 55 73 52 26 12 11 1 0 1234
SPAIN   259 19 15 20 18 19 25 18 25 22 31 27 16 6 5 0 525
FINLAND   252 12 28 17 12 21 15 25 30 30 26 13 11 2 0 0 494
BELGIUM   217 7 9 19 27 21 19 13 26 19 37 13 10 9 1 0 447
NORWAY   226 8 16 13 15 14 22 27 22 37 20 16 1 3 0 0 440
ISRAEL   206 17 15 22 18 18 14 21 23 19 17 16 19 5 0 0 430
DENMARK   195 6 14 11 11 21 16 17 22 22 18 9 6 3 0 0 371
U.S.S.R.   264 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 266
SOUTH AFRICA   172 6 6 9 7 7 8 4 7 3 8 3 0 0 0 0 240
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   48 4 2 3 7 9 9 8 11 17 25 17 19 19 6 0 204
NEW ZEALAND   79 3 5 11 6 3 4 11 14 14 15 9 9 4 0 0 187
BRAZIL   63 7 8 4 7 7 9 10 16 10 5 6 2 0 0 0 154
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   40 9 7 4 1 6 10 8 11 14 7 12 16 4 2 0 151
HUNGARY   100 1 0 3 2 5 1 5 4 1 4 1 3 0 0 0 130
MEXICO   68 1 6 3 2 4 9 9 5 2 7 2 5 3 1 0 127
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   7 10 8 5 6 11 20 8 12 11 11 2 0 1 0 0 112
ARGENTINA   60 4 1 0 4 4 3 5 6 3 2 6 1 0 2 0 101
IRELAND   51 5 2 2 5 4 7 4 4 8 4 1 2 2 0 0 101
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   74 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
POLAND   53 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 3 4 2 0 0 70
INDIA   23 0 1 1 2 1 3 0 5 8 7 7 9 2 0 0 69
SINGAPORE   6 3 3 1 2 4 4 3 8 4 7 1 3 0 0 0 49
GREECE   23 0 3 4 1 0 3 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 39
LUXEMBOURG   15 0 3 1 1 2 0 3 3 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 37
Others (84)   298 10 19 16 22 21 13 24 30 31 33 34 26 19 4 0 600
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   65699 2644 3002 2963 3370 3447 3679 4218 4260 4605 4453 4142 3129 1398 417 16 111442
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2567 44 59 55 54 42 49 64 67 57 66 46 41 12 3 0 3226
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   34053 1201 1274 1222 1277 1279 1221 1238 1237 1345 1243 1181 918 427 112 4 49232
FOREIGN CORPORATION   62887 3091 3530 4139 4808 4887 5107 5637 6449 6903 6732 5721 4230 1975 570 9 126675
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   730 16 18 12 6 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 789
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   10827 448 448 464 489 473 519 528 529 595 566 376 278 165 37 3 16745

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3361-3363. MOTOR VEHICLES, TRAILERS AND PARTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   121461 4974 5056 5809 5458 6925 7505 8219 9356 9340 9088 8614 7993 8919 8337 7944 234998
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   64300 2341 2416 2846 2432 2953 3175 3541 3826 3859 3752 3563 3287 3683 3401 3095 112470
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   57161 2633 2640 2963 3026 3972 4330 4678 5530 5481 5336 5051 4706 5236 4936 4849 122528
JAPAN   23967 1401 1293 1417 1488 1884 2094 2157 2461 2514 2423 2410 2272 2604 2498 2429 55312
GERMANY   14390 612 645 743 710 1001 1111 1312 1648 1544 1517 1357 1217 1229 1090 1129 31255
FRANCE   4420 119 123 137 128 175 181 204 237 218 215 208 158 206 190 177 7096
UNITED KINGDOM   4997 91 121 116 116 132 122 162 202 183 142 138 134 130 124 95 7005
CANADA   1972 84 89 113 103 118 148 143 191 147 171 171 166 182 175 144 4117
SWEDEN   1472 43 53 52 53 88 78 111 110 112 115 104 90 90 106 114 2791
ITALY   1375 48 44 35 49 70 72 89 95 91 99 88 73 108 86 84 2506
TAIWAN   332 62 82 93 85 106 123 141 157 208 180 167 127 175 162 168 2368
KOREA, SOUTH   118 37 38 69 121 175 189 109 117 174 160 145 192 224 241 206 2315
SWITZERLAND   917 21 12 17 15 18 19 26 28 26 40 16 18 16 22 19 1230
AUSTRALIA   469 15 31 41 35 43 33 38 37 50 39 41 43 41 26 34 1016
AUSTRIA   484 18 22 24 19 15 30 30 43 36 51 47 44 49 36 39 987
NETHERLANDS   503 19 15 20 19 25 23 25 44 46 31 30 33 29 24 26 912
SPAIN   192 4 7 12 5 17 8 12 14 5 13 11 17 17 29 24 387
BELGIUM   153 5 8 5 9 17 17 23 13 12 19 9 21 21 14 20 366
FINLAND   128 10 10 7 8 11 6 15 16 15 19 13 11 14 5 5 293
ISRAEL   126 7 10 11 9 9 15 8 12 16 15 7 9 10 13 13 290
DENMARK   121 4 4 7 7 9 7 12 16 14 13 8 9 7 6 5 249
NORWAY   78 3 2 4 3 5 7 7 10 6 6 15 6 10 3 4 169
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   28 4 3 4 2 1 4 8 8 6 4 8 17 9 17 34 157
U.S.S.R.   154 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156
SOUTH AFRICA   96 7 3 7 3 5 3 2 3 3 5 3 2 3 1 3 149
BRAZIL   44 2 3 3 6 4 4 7 10 5 7 4 2 9 2 3 115
HUNGARY   93 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 3 2 1 4 1 2 113
MEXICO   47 1 1 3 4 2 1 4 10 5 2 3 3 2 6 7 101
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   25 1 5 5 3 4 1 2 10 5 7 5 6 5 8 8 100
NEW ZEALAND   50 0 0 1 3 5 2 3 3 8 2 5 5 3 6 4 100
IRELAND   39 1 2 2 1 2 4 1 10 3 2 5 4 4 2 2 84
ARGENTINA   40 3 0 1 2 0 3 1 5 7 2 2 0 2 2 3 73
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   64 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
POLAND   41 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 5 54
INDIA   15 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 5 9 7 52
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 4 3 3 6 3 3 3 2 2 2 0 0 3 4 39
SINGAPORE   2 1 0 3 2 2 3 4 1 5 5 2 3 1 2 2 38
LUXEMBOURG   12 0 1 0 3 2 1 1 2 0 2 3 4 2 0 2 35
MALAYSIA   4 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 3 1 2 7 5 29
Others (71)   193 4 6 6 10 19 12 12 10 12 21 15 14 23 19 23 399
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   44266 1672 1752 2139 1864 2186 2488 2762 3152 3161 3133 2968 2740 3052 2935 2628 82898
U.S. GOVERNMENT   597 18 14 20 13 17 24 18 14 14 14 11 12 17 8 17 828
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   21129 685 686 755 622 847 800 905 841 802 742 692 650 713 597 524 31990
FOREIGN CORPORATION   48399 2359 2348 2630 2702 3566 3875 4198 4989 5030 4871 4669 4337 4855 4565 4537 107930
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   309 5 5 5 4 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 333
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6761 235 251 260 253 306 317 336 360 333 327 274 254 282 232 238 11019

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3361-3363. MOTOR VEHICLES, TRAILERS AND PARTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   129866 5710 6538 7110 8015 8010 8500 9446 10197 10744 10468 9099 6997 3290 984 24 234998
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   68213 2762 3096 3033 3325 3368 3509 4008 4051 4299 4152 3822 3004 1379 435 14 112470
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   61653 2948 3442 4077 4690 4642 4991 5438 6146 6445 6316 5277 3993 1911 549 10 122528
JAPAN   26294 1400 1668 1964 2319 2199 2099 2399 2816 2830 2904 2883 2157 1056 322 2 55312
GERMANY   15435 751 857 985 1193 1276 1557 1569 1734 1830 1626 1119 835 385 103 0 31255
FRANCE   4658 129 129 203 187 187 228 240 226 290 280 182 104 44 9 0 7096
UNITED KINGDOM   5176 133 120 134 127 171 196 194 178 201 174 103 52 38 8 0 7005
CANADA   2118 107 113 124 143 160 154 188 185 212 211 183 142 64 13 0 4117
SWEDEN   1553 60 63 72 90 100 109 118 126 157 142 71 77 42 11 0 2791
ITALY   1454 42 49 69 90 79 85 95 123 102 120 77 76 31 14 0 2506
TAIWAN   422 86 110 103 121 123 164 167 207 180 197 178 173 107 26 4 2368
KOREA, SOUTH   178 59 124 194 192 102 103 167 156 227 284 248 198 62 19 2 2315
SWITZERLAND   944 17 19 17 25 21 28 29 37 29 33 11 14 6 0 0 1230
AUSTRALIA   511 34 45 50 33 36 45 38 66 66 48 32 8 2 2 0 1016
AUSTRIA   514 25 19 22 19 42 40 41 51 77 60 39 27 5 4 2 987
NETHERLANDS   533 20 24 20 29 25 35 47 45 59 37 17 11 10 0 0 912
SPAIN   201 12 8 13 11 6 19 9 19 19 25 24 12 5 4 0 387
BELGIUM   164 6 5 18 25 19 16 11 22 17 34 10 10 8 1 0 366
FINLAND   143 9 15 9 8 14 13 18 18 20 18 4 3 1 0 0 293
ISRAEL   144 11 8 14 13 9 9 17 12 14 11 11 13 4 0 0 290
DENMARK   129 4 10 8 7 16 14 16 14 10 10 5 6 0 0 0 249
NORWAY   84 2 4 6 6 7 11 5 8 23 8 5 0 0 0 0 169
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   36 2 2 2 5 7 7 5 8 11 22 13 17 14 6 0 157
U.S.S.R.   155 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156
SOUTH AFRICA   105 4 5 6 4 0 6 3 4 3 6 3 0 0 0 0 149
BRAZIL   48 5 5 4 5 4 6 9 11 7 4 5 2 0 0 0 115
HUNGARY   94 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 4 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 113
MEXICO   48 1 5 3 1 4 7 8 5 2 7 2 4 3 1 0 101
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   29 5 6 3 1 4 6 6 9 8 2 7 10 3 1 0 100
NEW ZEALAND   50 1 1 7 5 2 2 5 7 5 5 2 4 4 0 0 100
IRELAND   41 4 1 2 5 2 6 4 4 8 3 1 2 1 0 0 84
ARGENTINA   43 2 1 0 2 4 3 4 5 2 2 3 1 0 1 0 73
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   67 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
POLAND   41 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 4 2 0 0 54
INDIA   16 0 1 1 2 1 2 0 5 6 4 5 7 2 0 0 52
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   5 3 4 4 4 1 3 2 5 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 39
SINGAPORE   3 3 2 1 2 4 4 2 7 3 5 0 2 0 0 0 38
LUXEMBOURG   13 0 3 1 1 2 0 3 3 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 35
MALAYSIA   4 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 3 0 2 7 3 2 1 0 29
Others (71)   200 7 15 16 13 12 10 14 21 18 23 23 16 8 3 0 399
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   47111 1984 2341 2301 2606 2658 2878 3339 3384 3626 3479 3173 2495 1151 362 10 82898
U.S. GOVERNMENT   624 12 26 22 19 17 9 19 12 18 24 8 15 3 0 0 828
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   22230 807 810 804 852 822 780 812 801 823 800 723 594 262 67 3 31990
FOREIGN CORPORATION   52429 2626 3071 3668 4215 4203 4478 4939 5660 5904 5789 4937 3712 1763 528 8 107930
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   318 4 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 333
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   7154 277 286 310 322 310 355 337 340 372 376 258 181 111 27 3 11019

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3364. AEROSPACE PRODUCTS AND PARTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   51616 2076 2023 2179 2073 2692 2791 3113 3766 3854 3568 3259 3162 3537 3077 2897 95683
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   29083 1087 1001 1078 944 1192 1238 1347 1584 1749 1551 1405 1361 1527 1340 1223 48710
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   22533 989 1022 1101 1129 1500 1553 1766 2182 2105 2017 1854 1801 2010 1737 1674 46973
JAPAN   7590 444 419 447 494 646 726 715 901 872 831 804 793 907 789 718 18096
GERMANY   5564 250 250 271 273 411 391 524 626 622 587 508 470 458 395 417 12017
UNITED KINGDOM   3372 61 80 69 72 79 66 87 108 103 101 81 100 95 88 65 4627
FRANCE   2298 86 77 92 73 115 103 124 114 85 81 93 82 120 105 120 3768
CANADA   677 29 24 35 23 39 48 48 77 60 78 65 65 89 78 61 1496
SWEDEN   616 16 28 19 19 29 25 45 53 52 41 31 38 56 52 48 1168
ITALY   532 13 17 10 26 25 25 32 36 48 41 46 35 50 34 38 1008
SWITZERLAND   419 22 21 20 19 22 20 23 33 28 23 27 17 34 18 25 771
TAIWAN   103 18 31 38 32 31 43 43 48 69 53 55 35 44 34 28 705
KOREA, SOUTH   41 12 8 12 26 27 28 12 42 32 41 25 54 47 37 41 485
AUSTRIA   200 3 12 8 7 5 8 17 29 19 29 26 16 25 16 25 445
AUSTRALIA   185 2 15 18 16 16 15 20 9 25 16 20 20 20 14 9 420
NETHERLANDS   165 8 6 10 12 7 5 7 12 10 10 16 9 5 4 4 290
SPAIN   77 4 3 9 4 7 3 17 11 10 9 4 6 2 4 10 180
ISRAEL   55 5 3 4 8 7 6 4 12 9 14 6 5 3 9 9 159
FINLAND   52 2 4 6 5 4 5 1 8 9 4 2 9 10 6 4 131
DENMARK   51 0 2 5 3 6 4 2 8 5 5 9 6 3 10 7 126
U.S.S.R.   111 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 114
BELGIUM   37 1 4 2 2 7 4 7 5 6 6 1 8 11 6 4 111
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 4 6 3 4 5 10 16 13 8 5 1 2 3 4 84
NORWAY   38 0 1 2 2 3 2 2 6 1 8 4 2 6 3 2 82
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   16 2 2 2 1 0 2 2 3 3 2 3 6 1 5 9 59
SOUTH AFRICA   28 0 2 5 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 2 3 0 0 1 49
NEW ZEALAND   24 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 4 0 0 3 2 6 2 48
BRAZIL   19 0 1 2 3 0 1 5 5 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 44
ARGENTINA   22 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 1 0 2 1 3 38
MEXICO   21 0 1 2 0 2 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 34
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   6 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 2 7 3 3 0 2 33
INDIA   8 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 3 5 4 29
HUNGARY   17 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 28
POLAND   21 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
GREECE   7 2 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 18
PERU   11 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 16
PHILIPPINES   12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 16
IRELAND   8 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 13
Others (58)   108 4 4 2 3 4 8 5 6 9 17 8 10 8 11 13 220
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   20752 885 784 888 792 986 1051 1128 1355 1481 1327 1227 1207 1305 1191 1109 37468
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1627 33 24 20 12 27 23 22 35 42 33 18 24 20 16 15 1991
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   7274 191 199 192 165 218 213 240 252 260 238 208 183 248 180 130 10391
FOREIGN CORPORATION   18775 863 911 954 994 1351 1368 1589 1983 1914 1849 1702 1639 1856 1602 1544 40894
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   404 24 12 15 15 7 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 486
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2784 80 93 110 95 103 133 131 140 156 121 104 108 108 88 99 4453

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3364. AEROSPACE PRODUCTS AND PARTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   55054 2302 2456 2662 2989 3107 3314 3683 3982 4224 3970 3728 2601 1239 364 8 95683
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   30903 1120 1200 1157 1297 1286 1415 1670 1656 1760 1695 1652 1222 519 153 5 48710
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   24151 1182 1256 1505 1692 1821 1899 2013 2326 2464 2275 2076 1379 720 211 3 46973
JAPAN   8287 488 524 638 772 816 724 796 975 982 905 977 658 408 145 1 18096
GERMANY   5953 301 296 402 453 472 606 602 689 713 592 465 309 137 27 0 12017
UNITED KINGDOM   3492 88 75 79 86 80 96 122 109 116 126 87 48 20 3 0 4627
FRANCE   2444 88 102 109 116 112 99 86 87 130 127 151 90 24 3 0 3768
CANADA   727 24 36 34 46 59 51 76 86 80 103 90 51 27 6 0 1496
SWEDEN   646 27 21 33 25 47 44 47 56 50 69 42 42 15 4 0 1168
ITALY   557 14 25 22 29 31 37 52 38 63 47 36 41 9 7 0 1008
SWITZERLAND   450 22 23 28 24 32 17 25 32 30 27 34 13 13 1 0 771
TAIWAN   132 34 41 31 43 39 51 61 59 57 50 53 31 20 3 0 705
KOREA, SOUTH   56 13 22 40 22 11 41 32 27 60 68 40 31 16 6 0 485
AUSTRIA   208 9 8 10 5 19 20 25 31 41 26 22 12 5 2 2 445
AUSTRALIA   199 14 20 22 10 21 14 19 26 32 18 15 8 1 1 0 420
NETHERLANDS   177 11 10 7 10 9 9 11 11 22 9 3 1 0 0 0 290
SPAIN   82 8 8 6 5 13 14 11 11 3 9 5 3 1 1 0 180
ISRAEL   66 6 5 8 7 11 5 6 14 7 6 9 9 0 0 0 159
FINLAND   55 6 8 5 3 3 6 9 6 9 14 5 1 1 0 0 131
DENMARK   55 1 6 6 4 5 4 4 9 14 11 3 3 1 0 0 126
U.S.S.R.   114 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 114
BELGIUM   41 2 2 7 7 4 10 2 5 5 15 5 1 5 0 0 111
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 6 5 3 4 11 18 6 11 5 10 1 0 1 0 0 84
NORWAY   40 1 3 1 2 1 7 3 6 9 4 5 0 0 0 0 82
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   21 1 0 1 1 3 2 2 3 5 6 5 5 4 0 0 59
SOUTH AFRICA   29 5 2 0 1 3 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 49
NEW ZEALAND   24 0 0 4 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 0 2 3 0 0 48
BRAZIL   19 2 4 1 2 3 5 0 5 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 44
ARGENTINA   23 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 38
MEXICO   21 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 34
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   7 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 2 5 5 2 3 0 0 0 33
INDIA   8 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 4 4 3 4 1 0 0 29
HUNGARY   17 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 28
POLAND   21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 23
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
GREECE   9 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 18
PERU   12 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
PHILIPPINES   12 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
IRELAND   8 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 13
Others (58)   114 5 4 2 7 6 6 10 12 14 13 10 9 7 1 0 220
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   22230 903 957 972 1110 1107 1221 1398 1447 1521 1503 1434 1051 476 134 4 37468
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1681 17 28 22 23 15 24 39 36 26 36 17 22 2 3 0 1991
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   7590 211 240 204 225 206 212 271 228 278 232 230 184 64 15 1 10391
FOREIGN CORPORATION   20184 1053 1102 1333 1515 1650 1707 1835 2136 2234 2062 1944 1278 653 205 3 40894
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   440 11 15 10 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 486
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   2929 107 114 121 111 128 149 138 135 165 137 102 66 44 7 0 4453

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3365,3366,3369 OTHER TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   41115 1515 1503 1627 1373 1767 1911 2134 2345 2209 2055 1783 1928 1882 1824 1736 68707
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   25415 822 812 881 715 914 982 1124 1227 1163 1088 880 971 998 897 794 39683
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   15700 693 691 746 658 853 929 1010 1118 1046 967 903 957 884 927 942 29024
JAPAN   4756 288 260 278 267 373 438 457 450 424 391 382 412 373 432 395 10376
GERMANY   3078 128 150 154 119 167 146 183 226 185 175 136 144 155 126 154 5426
UNITED KINGDOM   2037 20 31 32 25 22 24 39 54 34 31 29 43 25 31 35 2512
FRANCE   1618 35 40 41 28 35 34 44 42 53 39 33 25 37 34 23 2161
CANADA   1153 56 43 49 46 47 57 63 80 71 90 70 78 66 77 69 2115
TAIWAN   201 64 65 77 47 74 72 88 99 105 77 102 86 75 63 71 1366
SWEDEN   522 14 11 22 10 17 20 16 19 22 24 20 14 21 31 38 821
ITALY   440 16 12 20 13 15 22 27 22 31 26 22 23 32 25 30 776
AUSTRIA   376 8 18 9 13 5 16 12 9 16 20 10 15 7 5 4 543
SWITZERLAND   387 10 4 6 11 3 9 5 10 3 4 4 3 8 6 7 480
AUSTRALIA   198 9 11 9 10 12 4 7 13 12 16 18 15 13 15 17 379
NETHERLANDS   176 12 4 3 3 8 9 4 12 8 12 18 11 9 4 6 299
KOREA, SOUTH   23 1 3 11 21 22 29 13 18 23 19 12 16 12 21 29 273
NORWAY   107 7 8 5 9 8 10 8 13 13 10 7 13 4 11 9 242
FINLAND   94 5 7 2 11 7 3 6 4 8 3 11 6 7 9 6 189
BELGIUM   61 2 1 3 4 9 5 7 7 6 1 3 14 9 4 7 143
SPAIN   72 1 3 3 7 9 7 2 4 3 6 1 8 4 0 5 135
SOUTH AFRICA   65 4 3 1 2 3 3 3 4 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 92
NEW ZEALAND   22 1 1 3 4 0 3 2 3 3 5 9 9 5 4 6 80
DENMARK   35 1 0 2 2 2 4 3 3 1 1 2 0 1 3 2 62
U.S.S.R.   60 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62
ISRAEL   27 4 5 0 1 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 2 0 5 2 56
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 5 5 3 2 3 5 0 8 47
BRAZIL   11 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 2 2 6 2 1 0 1 1 35
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   8 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 2 4 1 1 2 4 3 2 34
MEXICO   18 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 6 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 33
ARGENTINA   12 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 23
HUNGARY   10 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 22
IRELAND   12 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 21
POLAND   14 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 20
MONACO   5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 15
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
INDIA   7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 13
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 12
GREECE   6 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 10
Others (49)   63 2 1 3 2 6 5 10 1 6 3 4 5 4 7 5 127
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   14241 407 400 478 355 499 514 624 778 739 671 500 551 547 558 481 22343
U.S. GOVERNMENT   441 18 27 13 26 10 13 23 16 16 21 21 21 12 12 10 700
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   11107 398 392 411 342 421 470 504 462 431 424 365 416 436 344 312 17235
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11953 536 538 582 522 682 764 809 913 846 788 744 806 770 792 815 22860
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   99 4 5 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 112
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3274 152 141 141 128 154 150 174 176 176 151 153 134 117 118 118 5457

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3365,3366,3369 OTHER TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   43555 1647 1837 1905 2070 1997 2066 2092 2330 2395 2337 2010 1578 702 177 9 68707
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   26729 875 992 975 1020 1069 1093 1112 1150 1148 1134 1068 798 411 103 6 39683
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   16826 772 845 930 1050 928 973 980 1180 1247 1203 942 780 291 74 3 29024
JAPAN   5227 276 324 418 503 418 392 371 470 525 468 437 388 130 28 1 10376
GERMANY   3302 165 166 174 178 169 202 184 212 225 188 131 88 29 13 0 5426
UNITED KINGDOM   2075 38 36 22 24 42 54 29 48 40 46 28 22 6 2 0 2512
FRANCE   1686 38 36 44 46 26 47 48 39 48 42 35 21 4 1 0 2161
CANADA   1237 47 54 54 61 63 55 77 100 93 98 70 67 31 8 0 2115
TAIWAN   280 85 70 69 77 70 82 101 103 104 116 75 85 35 12 2 1366
SWEDEN   546 14 18 17 20 20 17 19 27 27 37 21 26 12 0 0 821
ITALY   467 15 19 19 25 24 20 26 39 28 43 26 19 5 1 0 776
AUSTRIA   387 20 9 15 12 10 12 5 19 22 17 7 5 1 2 0 543
SWITZERLAND   399 5 11 6 10 6 7 5 4 9 6 6 5 1 0 0 480
AUSTRALIA   216 12 13 9 7 9 8 16 16 26 23 13 7 4 0 0 379
NETHERLANDS   189 4 8 8 5 6 8 13 15 17 15 7 2 1 1 0 299
KOREA, SOUTH   26 10 20 30 24 11 21 21 21 14 26 26 13 7 3 0 273
NORWAY   119 6 12 6 10 8 8 20 13 13 11 12 1 3 0 0 242
FINLAND   102 4 11 7 5 7 3 4 11 12 7 8 7 1 0 0 189
BELGIUM   64 2 4 7 11 6 8 4 2 2 21 6 1 4 1 0 143
SPAIN   74 5 11 8 5 3 4 3 8 4 5 3 1 1 0 0 135
SOUTH AFRICA   72 1 0 4 4 4 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 92
NEW ZEALAND   24 2 5 2 2 1 2 5 9 6 9 7 6 0 0 0 80
DENMARK   36 2 3 0 3 6 3 0 1 3 1 2 0 2 0 0 62
U.S.S.R.   60 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62
ISRAEL   33 3 2 1 2 1 0 3 2 2 3 1 2 1 0 0 56
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   10 1 0 1 3 2 3 5 4 4 4 4 2 4 0 0 47
BRAZIL   13 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 35
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   9 3 1 1 0 2 3 3 0 2 1 4 3 1 1 0 34
MEXICO   19 0 1 0 0 1 4 4 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 33
ARGENTINA   13 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 23
HUNGARY   10 1 0 1 1 3 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 22
IRELAND   13 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 21
POLAND   14 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 20
MONACO   6 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 15
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
INDIA   7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 13
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   1 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 12
GREECE   7 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 10
Others (49)   66 2 6 4 6 6 3 6 3 6 5 3 4 7 0 0 127
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   14913 449 495 521 586 616 657 711 742 665 675 581 444 224 59 5 22343
U.S. GOVERNMENT   473 19 18 27 13 13 18 14 22 23 17 23 11 9 0 0 700
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   11725 411 498 443 440 464 447 410 430 470 463 461 350 176 46 1 17235
FOREIGN CORPORATION   12841 594 672 766 864 758 791 776 953 1043 999 829 676 237 59 2 22860
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   105 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 112
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3498 169 154 147 167 146 153 180 183 194 183 116 97 56 13 1 5457

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 337. FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   17024 787 740 883 851 985 1045 1149 924 1039 1108 1120 894 1003 795 858 31205
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   12729 523 511 618 565 653 677 721 564 612 683 686 536 601 465 502 21646
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   4295 264 229 265 286 332 368 428 360 427 425 434 358 402 330 356 9559
GERMANY   989 46 38 45 48 61 76 92 74 88 95 93 50 75 71 69 2010
JAPAN   829 66 34 40 57 52 50 62 62 86 82 74 72 78 65 69 1778
TAIWAN   105 41 44 47 48 53 80 86 71 106 95 95 91 87 63 63 1175
CANADA   481 37 21 31 35 26 31 45 39 38 29 37 35 41 25 26 977
UNITED KINGDOM   409 13 18 7 11 17 20 25 10 15 14 17 12 12 11 16 627
FRANCE   344 12 12 20 26 28 26 19 19 12 28 22 10 17 18 10 623
ITALY   210 14 12 13 12 19 9 24 10 14 18 22 16 12 15 13 433
SWEDEN   168 2 6 2 6 13 10 20 14 14 10 8 7 4 5 6 295
SWITZERLAND   187 3 1 6 2 1 3 4 11 3 9 5 3 2 3 5 248
AUSTRIA   91 11 13 19 11 5 13 13 10 7 8 7 6 6 6 7 233
AUSTRALIA   75 4 3 9 4 14 10 5 6 9 4 5 11 3 4 6 172
KOREA, SOUTH   13 0 3 3 6 11 8 2 9 7 11 17 8 14 15 14 141
NETHERLANDS   53 2 3 4 2 0 5 2 6 0 1 3 1 2 3 7 94
SPAIN   46 0 0 3 2 7 3 1 1 3 1 1 4 10 3 4 89
NORWAY   43 0 4 4 2 5 5 4 2 4 3 2 1 1 0 4 84
ISRAEL   33 3 1 3 7 6 6 2 3 2 2 1 1 0 4 4 78
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   5 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 3 6 8 16 7 16 69
DENMARK   47 3 0 1 0 0 3 2 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 63
BELGIUM   25 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 3 3 0 43
FINLAND   18 1 3 1 1 2 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 36
NEW ZEALAND   7 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 3 1 3 5 5 0 2 34
SOUTH AFRICA   18 1 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 33
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   9 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 1 3 2 27
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 6 3 3 2 5 26
BRAZIL   17 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 24
IRELAND   8 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 16
MEXICO   8 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 16
ARGENTINA   6 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 13
LIECHTENSTEIN   8 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 9
POLAND   2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 6
BERMUDA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
HAITI   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
INDONESIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4
PERU   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
VENEZUELA   1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
Others (35)   28 0 2 2 0 4 0 2 1 1 1 3 8 2 1 2 57
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   6474 292 289 329 304 369 367 388 321 346 414 397 345 388 305 318 11646
U.S. GOVERNMENT   74 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 3 1 1 0 87
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   6326 243 223 287 266 290 320 343 252 264 280 294 203 239 166 183 10179
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2561 168 155 165 188 221 236 266 245 315 293 315 236 290 257 277 6188
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   20 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1569 82 73 99 93 104 121 152 104 112 121 113 107 85 66 80 3081

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 337. FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCTS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   18378 842 843 941 1069 1087 1083 1200 1152 1183 1181 978 691 431 140 6 31205
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   13648 590 589 609 715 686 641 741 702 691 677 578 438 254 82 5 21646
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   4730 252 254 332 354 401 442 459 450 492 504 400 253 177 58 1 9559
GERMANY   1065 45 44 60 78 84 90 105 95 106 83 53 65 27 10 0 2010
JAPAN   924 50 36 59 46 63 70 93 82 78 103 75 46 42 11 0 1778
TAIWAN   159 49 50 43 61 75 95 89 110 92 107 104 58 59 23 1 1175
CANADA   542 17 36 37 28 35 47 42 34 30 55 38 22 13 1 0 977
UNITED KINGDOM   437 13 8 13 16 28 20 18 15 17 14 15 9 4 0 0 627
FRANCE   365 18 18 31 24 23 23 19 20 33 19 17 9 3 1 0 623
ITALY   231 16 8 17 16 19 15 14 22 26 25 12 7 5 0 0 433
SWEDEN   176 1 4 7 19 14 18 18 10 10 8 7 3 0 0 0 295
SWITZERLAND   192 4 1 1 5 4 7 9 8 7 2 5 1 2 0 0 248
AUSTRIA   113 11 18 7 13 15 8 8 10 11 11 6 1 0 1 0 233
AUSTRALIA   83 5 6 13 12 9 7 3 7 10 9 6 1 1 0 0 172
KOREA, SOUTH   16 2 4 12 6 7 6 10 7 20 16 23 5 2 5 0 141
NETHERLANDS   57 5 2 1 2 1 6 3 3 6 2 1 3 2 0 0 94
SPAIN   46 1 3 4 5 2 3 3 2 5 4 6 1 1 3 0 89
NORWAY   48 2 3 5 5 4 3 3 2 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 84
ISRAEL   37 5 2 7 5 4 4 2 1 3 3 1 3 1 0 0 78
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   7 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 10 12 12 11 7 2 0 69
DENMARK   50 1 0 2 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 63
BELGIUM   26 1 2 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 43
FINLAND   21 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 36
NEW ZEALAND   9 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 5 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 34
SOUTH AFRICA   20 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 33
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   12 0 1 0 0 1 3 2 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 27
MALAYSIA   1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 4 5 3 1 3 1 0 26
BRAZIL   19 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 24
IRELAND   9 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 16
MEXICO   8 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 16
ARGENTINA   6 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 13
LIECHTENSTEIN   8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 9
POLAND   2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
BERMUDA   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
HAITI   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
INDONESIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
PERU   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
VENEZUELA   1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Others (35)   29 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 6 7 2 0 0 0 0 57
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   7008 327 308 334 414 366 364 428 413 418 441 364 273 142 46 0 11646
U.S. GOVERNMENT   75 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 87
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   6728 258 283 274 316 331 288 322 294 284 258 221 173 110 34 5 10179
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2849 169 161 226 230 259 295 325 317 342 356 296 189 134 40 0 6188
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   21 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1697 86 90 106 108 131 135 124 126 136 125 96 55 45 20 1 3081

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 339. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   193093 10609 10204 10683 10767 13918 14418 14401 14011 13452 14334 12447 10247 11658 10750 10219 375211
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   143930 7657 7343 7770 7610 9794 10069 10007 9340 8889 9590 8401 7029 8015 7320 6874 269638
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   49163 2952 2861 2913 3157 4124 4349 4394 4671 4563 4744 4046 3218 3643 3430 3345 105573
JAPAN   11265 885 796 786 829 1105 1159 1025 1141 1181 1219 937 805 916 918 930 25897
GERMANY   8832 395 363 344 392 521 527 557 547 553 525 507 324 405 368 343 15503
CANADA   4643 285 302 287 317 326 352 359 380 348 346 321 246 291 264 277 9344
FRANCE   4811 246 258 214 244 290 365 361 364 314 339 247 202 227 202 215 8899
UNITED KINGDOM   4871 164 193 223 215 301 319 314 317 329 301 308 252 253 256 239 8855
TAIWAN   1220 308 278 339 319 442 461 504 567 560 556 554 449 434 433 368 7792
SWEDEN   1941 56 74 73 86 146 133 151 186 151 141 100 100 89 68 70 3565
SWITZERLAND   1944 83 70 76 99 118 104 128 126 128 139 110 70 99 84 109 3487
ITALY   1740 94 77 109 99 137 128 156 150 134 150 110 88 89 97 69 3427
AUSTRALIA   952 61 71 63 61 104 111 102 103 106 136 118 99 123 80 96 2386
NETHERLANDS   1120 53 59 50 62 77 84 98 104 97 90 84 54 90 82 58 2262
ISRAEL   458 35 33 33 61 95 83 82 106 107 108 104 62 91 72 67 1597
AUSTRIA   921 38 39 33 39 42 42 53 49 41 48 42 31 53 34 30 1535
KOREA, SOUTH   156 21 31 44 45 57 68 57 84 103 116 100 101 100 106 83 1272
DENMARK   417 25 25 32 37 45 61 49 50 47 76 44 40 39 30 33 1050
BELGIUM   404 22 18 15 28 29 35 38 39 30 31 27 18 30 25 24 813
NORWAY   334 18 14 16 17 17 30 36 44 31 39 24 25 33 28 20 726
FINLAND   311 17 23 25 29 26 32 45 34 28 26 26 24 22 20 13 701
SPAIN   303 18 25 18 26 31 26 39 30 27 30 24 21 19 25 20 682
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   181 7 13 18 17 27 26 32 44 56 61 53 39 23 34 40 671
SOUTH AFRICA   318 25 18 16 18 24 21 20 12 15 21 15 10 21 15 15 584
U.S.S.R.   420 8 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 434
NEW ZEALAND   138 2 7 12 9 10 16 18 26 22 19 23 16 24 10 9 361
BRAZIL   121 13 5 9 10 11 10 22 18 17 25 10 10 17 14 15 327
IRELAND   64 6 2 14 11 14 12 22 17 13 30 17 30 24 22 15 313
ARGENTINA   114 6 8 8 11 17 18 16 18 14 19 14 10 3 9 8 293
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   45 6 6 2 6 6 14 11 10 13 26 19 24 27 32 43 290
MEXICO   156 9 7 2 7 15 11 12 9 10 7 11 6 5 1 10 278
HUNGARY   156 3 3 4 5 10 5 1 4 3 8 2 4 3 2 3 216
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 3 8 10 12 16 7 10 16 14 18 16 7 11 17 8 173
VENEZUELA   94 4 6 1 2 6 11 4 6 9 7 6 1 1 4 4 166
SINGAPORE   24 3 2 6 5 5 1 6 8 7 11 16 6 15 11 16 142
INDIA   18 3 1 2 0 6 8 7 7 8 13 16 3 16 9 20 137
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   114 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 118
POLAND   40 1 1 0 1 1 2 3 4 1 3 2 3 2 3 4 71
LIECHTENSTEIN   32 4 1 2 1 5 3 6 8 1 2 1 1 3 1 0 71
Others (92)   485 23 20 24 37 41 64 50 43 45 58 38 37 45 54 71 1135
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   75396 4235 4106 4239 4394 5815 6115 6216 6019 5735 6563 5810 4802 5574 5327 4990 155336
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1633 48 36 40 46 50 33 39 37 36 35 42 26 30 18 27 2176
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   69079 3477 3341 3596 3352 4179 4149 3983 3524 3346 3193 2788 2359 2628 2201 2022 117217
FOREIGN CORPORATION   30332 1915 1820 1894 1985 2642 2918 2933 3152 3150 3259 2767 2282 2615 2458 2515 68637
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   376 7 5 15 11 10 12 10 5 7 6 7 5 7 4 5 492
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   16277 927 896 899 979 1222 1191 1220 1274 1178 1278 1033 773 804 742 660 31353

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 339. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   211158 12122 13053 13138 15223 14730 15342 16073 15963 15495 13232 9511 6214 3056 861 40 375211
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   156914 8692 9477 9207 10584 10191 10375 10621 10405 10144 9061 6678 4418 2226 615 30 269638
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   54244 3430 3576 3931 4639 4539 4967 5452 5558 5351 4171 2833 1796 830 246 10 105573
JAPAN   12812 913 930 1014 1258 1099 1211 1400 1424 1272 1041 730 513 212 67 1 25897
GERMANY   9534 431 434 487 578 557 638 672 674 607 412 266 152 53 8 0 15503
CANADA   5109 366 363 334 350 366 403 415 388 371 314 263 185 94 22 1 9344
FRANCE   5264 282 275 303 384 363 354 389 406 390 222 159 69 31 8 0 8899
UNITED KINGDOM   5195 273 251 305 340 358 344 393 407 400 293 168 82 35 10 1 8855
TAIWAN   1569 310 361 406 441 459 584 640 555 609 665 507 398 204 81 3 7792
SWEDEN   2056 101 112 129 181 152 183 157 188 159 86 38 17 5 1 0 3565
SWITZERLAND   2089 93 107 96 120 135 140 168 171 147 121 50 33 13 3 1 3487
ITALY   1894 111 118 139 135 166 139 148 191 144 123 77 29 11 2 0 3427
AUSTRALIA   1082 72 71 106 124 100 126 144 148 176 119 69 30 14 3 2 2386
NETHERLANDS   1229 57 67 90 99 86 113 118 111 113 88 54 26 8 3 0 2262
ISRAEL   524 49 63 76 91 109 120 143 145 115 76 42 27 14 3 0 1597
AUSTRIA   993 39 33 40 48 52 43 64 42 70 42 41 17 10 1 0 1535
KOREA, SOUTH   193 54 50 48 60 63 96 94 119 173 124 94 59 36 9 0 1272
DENMARK   459 46 43 43 63 64 51 61 75 66 45 20 12 2 0 0 1050
BELGIUM   447 15 47 28 36 30 40 39 34 43 31 11 3 5 4 0 813
NORWAY   361 16 20 25 33 33 43 37 50 43 40 19 3 3 0 0 726
FINLAND   352 26 31 26 41 47 37 34 32 42 17 12 4 0 0 0 701
SPAIN   338 27 25 31 32 37 28 32 43 33 26 16 8 3 3 0 682
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   196 15 22 25 25 32 44 50 63 56 59 37 32 11 4 0 671
SOUTH AFRICA   361 17 20 23 14 24 21 24 25 23 10 17 3 1 1 0 584
U.S.S.R.   432 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 434
NEW ZEALAND   147 10 11 10 21 22 27 22 23 37 20 5 3 3 0 0 361
BRAZIL   138 11 12 13 16 12 23 23 17 23 13 16 6 4 0 0 327
IRELAND   73 18 11 10 14 27 15 18 40 35 28 16 6 2 0 0 313
ARGENTINA   125 10 14 19 15 24 11 22 21 12 4 6 3 6 1 0 293
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   56 5 4 6 11 13 17 14 23 39 26 33 28 12 3 0 290
MEXICO   170 4 8 11 16 14 6 9 13 11 6 5 3 2 0 0 278
HUNGARY   160 7 8 5 5 4 5 4 6 7 3 1 0 1 0 0 216
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   14 7 15 15 10 11 13 22 13 25 13 3 5 5 2 0 173
VENEZUELA   104 1 2 8 6 7 4 14 9 4 3 1 2 1 0 0 166
SINGAPORE   27 7 5 5 4 6 12 8 20 21 13 6 4 4 0 0 142
INDIA   22 1 1 6 7 6 8 13 15 22 16 13 2 4 1 0 137
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   118 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 118
POLAND   41 2 0 1 2 0 7 4 2 7 1 3 0 0 1 0 71
LIECHTENSTEIN   37 0 4 3 6 7 5 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 71
Others (92)   523 34 37 44 53 54 56 55 64 53 68 35 32 21 5 1 1135
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   82994 4905 5539 5512 6488 6430 6731 7141 7315 7074 6300 4332 2722 1419 414 20 155336
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1716 48 49 48 35 33 37 47 45 44 31 21 18 4 0 0 2176
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   74594 3895 4070 3884 4287 4001 3880 3724 3322 3316 2971 2476 1739 840 206 12 117217
FOREIGN CORPORATION   33750 2238 2308 2546 3169 3077 3348 3743 3893 3785 2872 1953 1250 530 170 5 68637
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   388 19 15 8 11 6 7 14 11 6 1 5 1 0 0 0 492
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   17716 1017 1072 1140 1233 1183 1339 1404 1377 1270 1057 724 484 263 71 3 31353

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 3391. MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   52501 4208 4103 4336 4611 6082 5999 6024 5885 5559 6468 5221 4157 4733 4147 3887 127921
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   39089 3210 3064 3322 3389 4473 4344 4352 4113 3826 4499 3624 2935 3317 2832 2646 93035
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   13412 998 1039 1014 1222 1609 1655 1672 1772 1733 1969 1597 1222 1416 1315 1241 34886
JAPAN   2484 245 240 225 267 349 367 311 341 349 384 297 246 283 325 336 7049
GERMANY   3012 189 180 173 205 272 270 290 283 308 294 296 178 237 215 178 6580
UNITED KINGDOM   1478 66 80 89 106 131 136 137 111 118 118 122 93 96 88 83 3052
FRANCE   1243 77 90 85 126 133 129 130 153 121 154 102 78 78 84 90 2873
CANADA   866 88 83 70 101 102 103 94 117 91 121 103 74 78 55 56 2202
SWEDEN   819 37 50 49 49 105 93 113 139 113 122 76 76 67 45 53 2006
SWITZERLAND   638 46 42 46 53 75 64 80 82 87 93 82 54 65 55 76 1638
TAIWAN   145 43 61 46 46 53 79 87 99 118 102 103 90 105 101 81 1359
ITALY   483 48 26 38 40 65 62 70 73 62 85 60 43 43 51 36 1285
ISRAEL   240 14 16 21 36 51 60 56 77 85 84 74 44 62 53 48 1021
AUSTRALIA   272 22 35 29 14 43 46 41 38 45 67 45 41 58 35 36 867
NETHERLANDS   234 21 27 20 29 41 39 33 41 35 32 25 14 27 28 15 661
DENMARK   152 13 14 22 28 26 41 27 32 25 54 28 23 24 21 18 548
AUSTRIA   179 12 15 13 16 13 17 19 19 19 26 19 14 18 12 8 419
KOREA, SOUTH   23 4 8 6 11 18 17 18 23 32 45 33 37 35 33 24 367
FINLAND   71 6 13 10 14 14 18 25 15 16 9 16 11 9 5 1 253
U.S.S.R.   231 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 239
BELGIUM   96 9 7 2 10 6 9 15 13 11 18 9 5 12 6 10 238
SPAIN   84 6 8 10 10 13 8 17 7 9 13 8 7 9 11 2 222
IRELAND   27 3 1 9 5 11 9 15 11 6 28 14 24 18 19 11 211
ARGENTINA   47 4 6 6 10 14 14 10 14 12 18 11 7 0 4 1 178
SOUTH AFRICA   79 9 9 3 3 10 8 8 3 3 7 5 3 10 4 3 167
NEW ZEALAND   49 1 2 4 1 4 4 5 8 11 13 13 9 12 4 2 142
NORWAY   44 3 2 6 5 4 1 10 11 8 8 10 6 9 8 5 140
BRAZIL   31 5 2 7 4 6 5 8 8 9 11 0 6 5 1 4 112
MEXICO   52 1 2 1 2 6 1 3 4 2 0 5 1 3 0 1 84
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 1 3 6 5 9 4 7 6 5 10 5 4 5 6 5 81
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   21 1 1 1 0 1 3 5 2 3 10 11 4 2 7 6 78
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   74 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   6 3 1 0 3 2 5 4 2 3 6 3 4 8 10 11 71
HUNGARY   38 1 2 2 2 5 1 0 2 2 4 0 2 2 2 2 67
LIECHTENSTEIN   13 3 1 2 1 4 3 6 7 1 2 0 1 3 1 0 48
INDIA   6 2 0 0 0 4 5 2 2 2 4 0 1 8 2 7 45
COLOMBIA   15 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 5 3 4 4 2 1 0 0 41
ICELAND   4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 0 4 4 8 12 40
SINGAPORE   6 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 2 5 4 1 5 3 5 38
Others (60)   150 9 9 8 17 17 30 24 21 16 14 14 15 15 13 15 387
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   20370 1992 1983 2075 2261 3012 3040 3122 3028 2819 3536 2832 2208 2583 2292 2122 59275
U.S. GOVERNMENT   514 16 14 13 14 22 13 16 9 17 11 20 15 12 7 12 725
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   18782 1263 1130 1290 1229 1585 1409 1332 1185 1088 1086 882 767 788 605 567 34988
FOREIGN CORPORATION   8153 621 642 667 758 1037 1105 1156 1224 1242 1416 1152 928 1064 1000 989 23154
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   118 3 3 7 3 0 1 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 144
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   4564 313 331 284 346 426 431 397 436 390 418 334 239 286 243 197 9635

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 3391. MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   60184 5019 5503 5593 6533 6324 6703 7179 7059 6509 5296 3235 1809 799 168 8 127921
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   44922 3736 4194 4116 4698 4557 4707 4932 4772 4393 3768 2281 1297 546 110 6 93035
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   15262 1283 1309 1477 1835 1767 1996 2247 2287 2116 1528 954 512 253 58 2 34886
JAPAN   2930 268 289 316 396 342 371 433 465 425 348 236 144 66 20 0 7049
GERMANY   3362 226 191 258 298 299 358 408 386 320 227 138 77 30 2 0 6580
UNITED KINGDOM   1618 110 113 134 155 137 144 158 157 143 105 47 20 7 3 1 3052
FRANCE   1391 120 127 117 153 138 154 164 178 161 82 57 19 11 1 0 2873
CANADA   1009 103 105 96 107 100 125 142 108 112 90 57 30 15 3 0 2202
SWEDEN   901 64 74 96 128 113 142 125 144 127 55 20 13 3 1 0 2006
SWITZERLAND   718 62 61 57 72 82 96 122 115 104 88 32 20 7 2 0 1638
TAIWAN   207 55 60 44 66 74 100 130 102 118 126 131 75 53 17 1 1359
ITALY   555 38 42 70 58 80 76 73 104 78 53 41 13 4 0 0 1285
ISRAEL   270 27 35 45 65 82 87 105 105 88 51 30 20 9 2 0 1021
AUSTRALIA   332 28 21 40 54 44 51 59 66 75 55 27 11 4 0 0 867
NETHERLANDS   282 25 27 38 53 27 47 46 38 31 24 12 7 3 1 0 661
DENMARK   173 35 28 22 48 39 30 40 44 40 30 12 5 2 0 0 548
AUSTRIA   200 19 13 13 21 16 18 32 21 32 14 11 5 4 0 0 419
KOREA, SOUTH   30 13 6 18 14 16 32 31 45 63 37 32 19 10 1 0 367
FINLAND   88 12 16 11 24 32 16 15 14 20 3 2 0 0 0 0 253
U.S.S.R.   239 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 239
BELGIUM   114 1 11 8 11 11 19 13 17 17 11 3 0 2 0 0 238
SPAIN   95 12 12 8 14 9 13 11 20 11 6 8 3 0 0 0 222
IRELAND   32 12 5 8 11 18 9 15 35 27 23 11 5 0 0 0 211
ARGENTINA   54 9 12 13 13 18 10 18 18 10 2 1 0 0 0 0 178
SOUTH AFRICA   95 5 7 9 3 11 6 8 10 7 1 5 0 0 0 0 167
NEW ZEALAND   53 3 2 1 8 9 10 13 10 20 9 2 1 1 0 0 142
NORWAY   48 7 5 4 3 9 12 15 13 12 9 1 1 1 0 0 140
BRAZIL   39 5 6 5 7 6 12 11 8 8 2 2 0 1 0 0 112
MEXICO   54 2 2 5 5 4 0 1 4 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 84
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   7 3 6 8 5 6 8 8 8 12 5 0 1 3 1 0 81
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   23 0 1 1 0 4 6 6 7 7 9 5 4 3 2 0 78
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   9 2 2 3 3 4 5 2 5 7 8 10 7 4 0 0 71
HUNGARY   40 3 3 2 2 2 1 4 5 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 67
LIECHTENSTEIN   17 0 3 3 6 7 4 2 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 48
INDIA   8 0 0 3 5 2 2 3 2 2 10 6 0 1 1 0 45
COLOMBIA   15 2 2 1 0 2 5 6 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 41
ICELAND   4 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 3 2 16 3 5 2 0 0 40
SINGAPORE   6 0 2 0 2 0 4 4 6 5 5 3 1 0 0 0 38
Others (60)   167 12 20 19 25 22 23 22 19 23 16 6 6 6 1 0 387
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   24154 2451 2803 2842 3357 3288 3522 3758 3804 3360 2967 1649 872 371 76 1 59275
U.S. GOVERNMENT   544 19 14 18 11 16 13 17 22 23 13 9 4 2 0 0 725
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   20922 1361 1482 1392 1451 1375 1326 1312 1094 1106 873 635 434 184 36 5 34988
FOREIGN CORPORATION   9333 807 832 963 1264 1250 1377 1595 1651 1623 1122 737 383 175 41 1 23154
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   122 9 3 0 1 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 144
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   5109 372 369 378 449 393 463 493 488 396 321 205 116 67 15 1 9635

Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
whole counts
NAICS 339 OTHER. OTHER MISCELLANEOUS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   142753 6523 6212 6493 6313 8020 8628 8566 8306 8046 7999 7381 6221 7064 6710 6406 251641
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   106526 4544 4354 4564 4330 5448 5867 5787 5330 5165 5167 4876 4181 4796 4569 4276 179780
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   36227 1979 1858 1929 1983 2572 2761 2779 2976 2881 2832 2505 2040 2268 2141 2130 71861
JAPAN   8853 644 564 564 567 760 801 723 815 840 848 648 569 637 594 600 19027
GERMANY   5890 209 186 172 188 251 264 271 267 248 233 214 148 171 153 166 9031
CANADA   3866 204 227 227 227 238 264 274 274 265 233 229 176 223 214 228 7369
TAIWAN   1098 267 223 302 283 403 399 434 491 459 470 467 368 341 346 293 6644
FRANCE   3607 170 171 130 122 159 239 232 216 197 188 149 127 149 120 125 6101
UNITED KINGDOM   3430 101 117 136 112 173 183 181 210 215 184 191 162 158 170 157 5880
ITALY   1302 47 52 72 61 73 72 90 80 75 67 53 47 49 46 34 2220
SWITZERLAND   1312 38 28 32 47 44 40 48 46 41 46 28 16 34 29 33 1862
NETHERLANDS   888 32 32 30 33 38 46 65 63 62 58 59 41 63 54 43 1607
SWEDEN   1154 19 25 24 39 41 40 41 47 38 20 26 24 22 23 17 1600
AUSTRALIA   687 40 37 34 50 62 70 61 67 61 71 73 61 67 45 60 1546
AUSTRIA   748 27 24 20 23 30 25 34 31 22 22 23 17 36 22 22 1126
KOREA, SOUTH   135 17 23 38 36 42 52 40 63 73 76 70 70 65 74 60 934
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   166 6 12 17 17 26 23 27 42 53 52 42 35 21 27 34 600
NORWAY   293 15 12 10 12 13 29 27 33 23 31 14 19 25 21 15 592
ISRAEL   220 21 17 12 27 47 23 27 29 22 24 30 18 29 19 19 584
BELGIUM   309 13 11 13 18 23 26 23 27 19 13 18 13 18 19 14 577
DENMARK   266 12 11 11 9 21 20 22 18 22 22 16 17 15 9 15 506
SPAIN   222 12 17 8 16 21 18 24 25 18 17 17 14 12 14 18 473
FINLAND   248 11 11 15 17 12 15 21 19 13 17 10 13 13 15 12 462
SOUTH AFRICA   244 16 9 13 15 14 14 12 9 12 15 10 7 11 11 12 424
NEW ZEALAND   93 1 5 8 8 6 13 13 19 12 6 10 7 12 6 7 226
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   39 3 5 2 3 4 9 7 8 10 20 16 21 19 22 32 220
BRAZIL   90 8 3 2 6 5 5 14 10 8 14 10 4 12 13 11 215
MEXICO   105 8 5 1 5 9 10 9 6 8 7 6 5 2 1 9 196
U.S.S.R.   189 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 195
HUNGARY   118 2 1 2 3 5 4 1 2 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 149
VENEZUELA   86 4 5 1 2 5 10 3 4 7 7 6 1 1 3 3 148
ARGENTINA   68 2 2 2 1 3 4 6 4 2 1 3 3 3 5 7 116
IRELAND   38 4 1 5 6 4 3 7 7 7 2 3 6 7 3 4 107
SINGAPORE   18 3 2 5 4 4 0 6 5 5 6 12 5 10 8 11 104
INDIA   13 1 1 2 0 2 3 5 5 6 9 16 2 8 7 13 93
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 2 5 4 7 7 3 3 10 9 8 11 3 6 11 3 92
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   40 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
MALAYSIA   12 1 0 1 4 7 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 5 3 41
POLAND   21 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 3 35
Others (86)   359 15 13 13 14 18 32 26 23 25 39 22 17 26 30 46 718
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   55684 2271 2153 2192 2166 2849 3113 3143 3025 2955 3052 3010 2630 3036 3070 2884 97233
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1158 33 23 28 32 30 21 23 28 21 25 23 11 19 11 15 1501
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   51301 2283 2256 2393 2202 2673 2844 2735 2412 2318 2158 1973 1647 1892 1643 1488 84218
FOREIGN CORPORATION   22392 1305 1204 1241 1252 1633 1847 1804 1967 1934 1868 1648 1375 1570 1468 1538 46046
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   265 4 2 8 8 10 11 10 2 4 5 6 5 7 4 5 356
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   11953 627 574 631 653 825 792 851 872 814 891 721 553 540 514 476 22287

Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
whole counts
NAICS 339 OTHER. OTHER MISCELLANEOUS

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   153331 7235 7719 7726 8894 8590 8803 9053 9080 9166 8081 6431 4498 2299 703 32 251641
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   113829 5053 5406 5215 6017 5771 5765 5789 5738 5873 5380 4510 3192 1707 511 24 179780
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   39502 2182 2313 2511 2877 2819 3038 3264 3342 3293 2701 1921 1306 592 192 8 71861
JAPAN   9960 652 646 705 867 765 857 975 969 860 706 497 370 149 48 1 19027
GERMANY   6246 207 245 233 286 259 285 268 292 289 187 129 75 24 6 0 9031
CANADA   4201 273 272 247 258 279 283 286 290 266 236 213 162 81 21 1 7369
TAIWAN   1391 261 308 376 396 398 503 527 476 505 555 391 333 157 65 2 6644
FRANCE   3914 165 152 187 236 225 204 227 235 233 142 104 50 20 7 0 6101
UNITED KINGDOM   3620 164 143 175 186 225 201 238 254 263 190 124 62 28 7 0 5880
ITALY   1385 75 77 73 80 89 68 77 91 67 72 40 17 7 2 0 2220
SWITZERLAND   1379 32 46 41 48 54 45 46 56 43 33 18 13 6 1 1 1862
NETHERLANDS   949 32 40 52 49 59 66 72 73 83 64 42 19 5 2 0 1607
SWEDEN   1188 38 39 33 55 40 41 32 45 33 32 18 4 2 0 0 1600
AUSTRALIA   759 44 52 70 72 57 76 86 85 101 68 42 19 10 3 2 1546
AUSTRIA   800 20 20 28 27 36 25 33 21 38 28 30 13 6 1 0 1126
KOREA, SOUTH   165 41 45 32 49 47 66 65 76 118 89 66 40 27 8 0 934
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   179 15 21 24 25 28 38 45 56 49 50 32 28 8 2 0 600
NORWAY   316 9 15 21 30 24 32 22 37 31 32 18 3 2 0 0 592
ISRAEL   256 22 31 32 28 27 33 38 40 27 25 12 7 5 1 0 584
BELGIUM   334 14 36 20 25 19 21 27 17 26 20 8 3 3 4 0 577
DENMARK   287 12 15 22 16 25 21 21 31 26 15 8 7 0 0 0 506
SPAIN   246 15 13 24 20 29 17 22 24 22 21 9 5 3 3 0 473
FINLAND   272 15 16 16 18 15 22 20 18 22 14 10 4 0 0 0 462
SOUTH AFRICA   271 12 13 14 11 14 15 16 16 16 9 12 3 1 1 0 424
NEW ZEALAND   98 7 9 9 14 13 19 9 13 17 11 3 2 2 0 0 226
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   47 3 2 3 8 9 12 12 18 32 18 24 21 8 3 0 220
BRAZIL   99 6 6 8 9 6 11 12 9 15 11 14 6 3 0 0 215
MEXICO   117 2 6 6 11 10 6 9 9 9 3 3 3 2 0 0 196
U.S.S.R.   193 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 195
HUNGARY   120 4 5 3 3 2 4 0 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 149
VENEZUELA   95 1 2 6 5 6 4 10 9 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 148
ARGENTINA   72 1 2 6 2 6 1 4 3 2 2 5 3 6 1 0 116
IRELAND   43 6 6 3 3 9 7 3 5 8 5 6 1 2 0 0 107
SINGAPORE   21 7 3 5 2 6 8 4 14 16 8 3 3 4 0 0 104
INDIA   15 1 1 3 2 4 6 10 13 20 6 7 2 3 0 0 93
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   7 4 9 7 5 5 5 14 5 13 8 3 4 2 1 0 92
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
MALAYSIA   13 2 2 6 4 1 1 1 2 0 1 3 2 2 1 0 41
POLAND   21 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 3 1 2 0 0 1 0 35
Others (86)   382 19 14 19 27 28 32 32 38 31 34 24 21 13 3 1 718
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   59550 2483 2774 2704 3176 3185 3245 3418 3546 3759 3371 2737 1871 1055 340 19 97233
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1213 30 36 31 24 18 24 31 24 22 19 13 14 2 0 0 1501
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   54776 2602 2674 2581 2923 2720 2616 2477 2299 2291 2147 1900 1355 676 174 7 84218
FOREIGN CORPORATION   24655 1454 1497 1613 1940 1852 2002 2180 2275 2188 1783 1234 876 361 132 4 46046
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   273 10 12 8 10 5 5 10 11 5 1 5 1 0 0 0 356
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   12864 656 726 789 821 810 911 937 925 901 760 542 381 205 57 2 22287

Part A1
whole counts
ALL INDUSTRIES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   2198193 101676 101419 109645 111984 147517 153485 157494 166035 167331 169023 164290 143806 173772 157282 157772 4380724
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1386150 56066 55739 61104 61708 80289 83905 85068 87600 86971 87893 84270 74637 89823 79526 77502 2538251
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   812043 45610 45680 48541 50276 67228 69580 72426 78435 80360 81130 80020 69169 83949 77756 80270 1842473
JAPAN   269119 22384 21764 23053 23179 30840 31104 31295 33223 34858 35515 35348 30341 36807 33354 33682 725866
GERMANY   175509 6731 6600 6818 7008 9095 9337 10235 11260 11280 11444 10779 9011 10005 9051 8914 313077
UNITED KINGDOM   81189 2236 2481 2454 2680 3467 3576 3669 3967 3843 3631 3450 3148 3585 3292 3094 129762
FRANCE   66560 2779 2821 2788 2958 3674 3820 3819 4041 4035 3868 3380 2866 3431 3130 3163 117133
CANADA   38965 2008 2104 2232 2379 2973 3226 3419 3606 3431 3427 3374 2894 3572 3318 3393 84321
TAIWAN   6182 1443 1620 1897 2057 3100 3693 4667 5371 5431 5298 5938 5118 6361 6128 6339 70643
KOREA, SOUTH   2545 943 1161 1493 1891 3259 3562 3314 3538 3786 3944 4428 4352 5908 6295 7548 57967
SWITZERLAND   36330 1169 1056 1112 1090 1279 1279 1322 1420 1364 1308 1277 995 1201 1035 1112 54349
ITALY   24623 1215 1078 1200 1239 1584 1492 1714 1709 1751 1722 1584 1296 1480 1302 1357 46346
SWEDEN   22427 706 806 854 867 1225 1401 1577 1741 1675 1521 1290 1123 1243 1061 1060 40577
NETHERLANDS   20960 852 799 797 808 1226 1247 1241 1332 1391 1325 1273 993 1323 1250 1330 38147
AUSTRALIA   8084 467 459 471 478 720 707 705 876 859 902 953 910 1325 1265 1291 20472
ISRAEL   4127 350 384 484 534 754 743 783 970 1040 1193 1028 924 1218 1107 1166 16805
BELGIUM   7879 352 397 488 515 693 648 694 718 722 622 612 519 625 520 510 16514
AUSTRIA   8030 289 337 362 376 387 479 505 589 530 592 540 463 577 457 464 14977
FINLAND   4174 312 358 444 452 595 649 618 732 809 865 918 720 950 850 824 14270
DENMARK   4620 207 199 241 333 392 487 436 479 426 529 414 358 439 388 391 10339
U.S.S.R.   6898 53 12 16 4 6 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6994
SPAIN   2508 141 148 157 177 248 222 270 269 303 309 264 273 295 268 303 6155
NORWAY   2634 126 130 139 142 198 224 248 265 242 262 243 220 244 247 273 5837
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   418 48 62 46 62 72 90 119 195 289 297 404 402 661 772 1225 5162
SINGAPORE   197 51 53 88 94 120 144 218 296 410 427 449 346 412 393 399 4097
INDIA   429 27 37 35 47 85 112 131 178 249 342 363 384 481 546 634 4080
SOUTH AFRICA   2390 101 123 111 101 115 110 111 120 113 112 100 87 109 82 91 3976
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   702 57 86 88 81 160 155 179 237 233 276 311 283 308 338 311 3805
HUNGARY   2146 46 50 43 25 50 39 36 60 48 72 48 46 49 47 66 2871
NEW ZEALAND   1025 37 44 52 85 114 114 107 124 140 135 142 122 136 113 105 2595
MEXICO   1530 44 40 39 45 57 76 76 81 94 85 86 80 66 56 54 2509
IRELAND   710 48 47 77 71 71 90 121 141 127 163 186 156 174 146 164 2492
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   3 38 98 116 111 189 181 183 234 200 203 169 148 172 188 176 2409
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   2056 19 15 8 9 9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2121
BRAZIL   752 60 63 63 62 74 91 98 110 96 130 106 77 121 90 101 2094
ARGENTINA   635 32 31 30 35 43 44 54 51 54 63 46 24 38 37 32 1249
LUXEMBOURG   521 22 24 18 22 20 22 40 33 37 35 44 41 33 38 24 974
MALAYSIA   71 10 7 12 17 23 30 42 39 55 50 80 88 113 158 152 947
POLAND   610 8 8 15 11 15 19 13 16 11 17 16 23 29 32 54 897
Others (139)   4485 199 178 200 231 296 359 366 414 427 446 377 338 458 402 468 9644
Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   1057833 44037 44038 48742 50221 66052 69389 70887 74329 74154 75327 73021 65207 78925 70497 69960 2032619
U.S. GOVERNMENT   42159 1258 1028 924 944 1028 984 928 957 913 882 842 698 792 725 678 55740
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   339875 12805 12885 13729 12914 16407 16698 16129 15203 14116 13536 12172 10358 11857 9898 9022 537604
FOREIGN CORPORATION   633772 38787 38685 41475 42907 57665 60168 63179 68938 71662 73098 72776 63114 77374 71956 74465 1550021
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   9097 296 245 259 273 256 162 104 92 112 85 79 58 51 69 33 11271
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   115457 4493 4538 4516 4725 6109 6084 6267 6516 6374 6095 5400 4371 4773 4137 3614 193469

Part A2
whole counts
ALL INDUSTRIES

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
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   2387034 123338 144532 144756 169297 167857 179032 192275 200881 198600 175281 140688 95532 47747 13329 545 4380724
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   1490432 68196 81861 77918 91891 91069 96052 101593 101763 99367 88540 70749 48280 23634 6614 292 2538251
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   896602 55142 62671 66838 77406 76788 82980 90682 99118 99233 86741 69939 47252 24113 6715 253 1842473
JAPAN   310681 26230 29058 30955 35832 33211 34155 38775 42699 40431 36884 30658 22170 10876 3161 90 725866
GERMANY   187482 7662 8636 8864 10251 10365 12173 12878 13928 14521 11130 7727 4708 2206 530 16 313077
UNITED KINGDOM   85814 2962 3482 3393 3932 4001 4376 4560 4937 4798 3531 2113 1166 564 122 11 129762
FRANCE   71911 3192 3766 3565 4089 3983 4394 4752 4674 4724 3598 2397 1329 614 140 5 117133
CANADA   42660 2576 3081 2991 3471 3771 3892 4105 4081 4063 3582 2942 1887 959 251 9 84321
TAIWAN   8172 1922 2257 2941 3547 4522 5694 5050 5917 6829 7106 6897 5284 3356 1097 52 70643
KOREA, SOUTH   4422 1617 2125 3486 3858 3949 3691 4188 4754 5798 6510 6514 4399 2167 475 14 57967
SWITZERLAND   38372 1242 1356 1238 1358 1385 1473 1566 1689 1641 1263 881 494 301 83 7 54349
ITALY   26743 1304 1499 1518 1677 1666 1760 1902 2129 2135 1751 1134 681 351 93 3 46346
SWEDEN   23854 1016 1126 1174 1736 1781 1831 1894 1884 1714 1218 718 413 183 33 2 40577
NETHERLANDS   22556 953 1083 1216 1415 1267 1400 1569 1779 1721 1392 1119 426 193 57 1 38147
AUSTRALIA   9055 534 644 736 724 918 918 1164 1144 1348 1076 1104 665 288 140 14 20472
ISRAEL   4890 600 695 682 845 943 1268 1407 1533 1372 982 732 544 244 62 6 16805
BELGIUM   8577 530 713 697 689 733 783 783 792 793 669 387 223 114 31 0 16514
AUSTRIA   8589 408 454 406 467 536 588 605 688 809 593 427 224 152 29 2 14977
FINLAND   4833 475 551 693 757 728 990 1183 1269 1114 807 501 241 111 17 0 14270
DENMARK   5022 290 457 360 475 484 558 544 682 617 421 243 117 57 11 1 10339
U.S.S.R.   6968 10 9 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6994
SPAIN   2768 191 209 229 270 255 267 331 438 378 349 251 139 58 22 0 6155
NORWAY   2884 146 188 192 228 227 311 320 370 387 260 175 87 49 12 1 5837
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   527 52 64 70 100 125 184 326 476 596 607 724 629 532 138 12 5162
SINGAPORE   293 99 101 138 173 234 361 459 519 544 412 360 245 125 32 2 4097
INDIA   493 42 53 83 121 138 205 330 468 629 614 465 262 143 33 1 4080
SOUTH AFRICA   2602 138 101 112 110 122 129 132 159 142 102 79 25 16 7 0 3976
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   815 110 102 139 156 189 236 257 365 377 392 316 217 101 33 0 3805
HUNGARY   2238 45 51 36 38 53 55 72 70 88 54 34 29 3 5 0 2871
NEW ZEALAND   1100 79 89 111 129 118 130 175 198 182 151 67 42 21 3 0 2595
MEXICO   1603 51 52 65 71 88 84 96 117 82 92 44 43 18 3 0 2509
IRELAND   800 98 78 81 108 155 139 185 207 234 156 116 82 34 18 1 2492
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   126 129 147 187 195 190 253 248 259 220 194 125 79 43 13 1 2409
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   2091 10 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2121
BRAZIL   856 92 66 77 91 93 119 118 135 159 126 94 35 27 6 0 2094
ARGENTINA   695 38 35 45 46 58 43 64 74 45 38 33 14 17 4 0 1249
LUXEMBOURG   553 32 20 25 32 32 34 41 47 60 45 36 13 4 0 0 974
MALAYSIA   87 13 20 24 42 25 55 57 86 85 139 144 99 55 16 0 947
POLAND   629 15 9 18 14 15 21 21 25 45 32 25 15 11 2 0 897
Others (139)   4841 239 284 283 352 426 410 525 526 552 465 357 226 120 36 2 9644
Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    pre94 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   1141884 54501 67591 64753 77220 76809 81858 87417 88942 86846 76942 60765 41187 20085 5556 263 2032619
U.S. GOVERNMENT   44592 1093 1178 924 962 928 847 988 999 937 827 673 507 225 57 3 55740
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   361578 15220 16104 15322 16932 15959 15886 15772 14394 14396 12891 10538 7611 3878 1073 50 537604
FOREIGN CORPORATION   706242 46986 53965 57746 67729 68022 73531 80962 89379 89457 79004 64814 43651 22087 6231 215 1550021
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   9613 290 294 243 169 111 108 134 88 96 61 44 14 5 1 0 11271
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   123125 5248 5400 5768 6285 6028 6802 7002 7079 6868 5556 3854 2562 1467 411 14 193469