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


EU 27 Countries
Fractional Counts

PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


Parts of the Report

Description of the Report
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PART A1 -
Number of Patents Granted As Distributed By Year Of Patent Grant

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

CONTACT INFORMATION -

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


Description of the Report

This report counts only documents of the following type(s):
utility patents (i.e., "patents for invention")
granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during the period 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008. These profiled documents hereafter will be referred to as "patents".


PATENTS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT

This Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT) Report profiles patent activity for U.S. patents granted between 01/01/1963 and 12/31/2008. The source of the data used for this report is the TAF database maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.


PARTS A1 AND A2 (IF INCLUDED)

Parts A1 and A2, if included, present tables which profile, by patent number, the activity of the specified patents. Annual totals may be provided for some years and a consolidated year total also may be provided. Part A1 presents data by year of patent grant ("Patents Granted As Distributed By Year of Patent Grant"). Part A2 redistributes patent grant data by year of patent application, i.e., the year in which each patent application was filed ("Patents Granted As Distributed By Year of Patent Application"). Patent data as shown in the "Pre YYYY" column (where "YYYY" is a four-digit year) correspond to activity in the specified period prior to "YYYY".

In Tables A1-a and A2-a, the totals are broken down by origin (patent origin is determined by the residence of the first-named inventor), either U.S. or foreign. Separate counts are displayed for many of the foreign countries receiving the most granted patents during the period. In Tables A1-b and A2-b, patent counts are displayed according to general category of ownership, e.g., corporate-owned, government-owned, or individual-owned.

Patent ownership information reflects ownership at the time of patent grant and does not include subsequent changes in ownership. If more than one assignee (owner entity) was declared at the time of grant, the patent is attributed to the first-named assignee. The U.S. and Foreign Corporations ownership categories count predominantly corporate patents; however, patents assigned to other organizations such as small businesses, nonprofit organizations, universities, etc. are also included in this category. While U.S. Government patent ownership includes only patents granted to the Federal Government, no such distinction is made for Foreign Government ownership patents.

Please note that U.S. origin patents may have foreign category ownership and that foreign origin patents may have U.S. category ownership. Therefore, the patents having U.S.category ownership (or foreign category ownership) do not necessarily correspond to the patents having U.S. origin (or foreign origin) and the sum of U.S. category ownership patents (or foreign category ownership patents) will not equal the sum of U.S. origin patents (or foreign origin patents).

Also, please note that patent documents in the TAF database are limited to utility patents granted no earlier than January 1963 and to other document types (i.e., design, plant, and reissue patents, statutory invention registrations, and defensive publications) granted no earlier than 1977.


Patent data, as shown in the "Pre YYYY" column (where "YYYY" is a four-digit year), correspond to activity in the specified period prior to "YYYY".


DATA DISTRIBUTION BY YEAR OF GRANT AND BY YEAR OF APPLICATION

Other Considerations

DATA FOR THOSE APPLICATIONS WHICH WERE FILED BUT NEVER ISSUED (ROUGHLY 34% OF TOTAL FILINGS) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT.

Since the average time period between filing for a patent and the issuing of the patent (i.e., the patent's "pendency") is now about 32 months (for utility patents), the patent grant data, as distributed by year of application, are incomplete for the most recent years that are displayed in the report.* This is because a significant number of those applications which ultimately will become patents were still pending as of these most recent years that are displayed.

Patented application data are of significant value since the date an application was filed more accurately reflects when the technology was developed. Additionally, fluctuations in data based on application date are much more likely to reflect changes in technological activity since, for the most part, such fluctuations would be immune from changes in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) processing such as occurred in years such as 1986 and 2005 when the USPTO issued fewer patents than would have normally been expected due to administrative reasons. Note that a patent's "pendency" can be quite variable from one patent to another, thereby affecting the date of patent grant. Such variation in pendency is determined by many factors, including PTO workload (which varies between technologies), budget and manpower levels, patent printing schedules, etc. Please note that other types of patent documents such as design patents, plant patents, reissue patents, statutory invention registrations,and defensive publications may have average pendency periods that differ somewhat from the pendency period for utility patents.

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


Report Printing and the Use of Spreadsheet Software

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

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


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


Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
NAICS 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
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   351 416 565 567 585 622 793 836 1086 947 965 1082 970 1065 955 993 849 1016 1118 1041 929 1095 1234 1279 1685 1461 1822 1564 1632 1507 1400 1516 1527 1583 1575 2010 1924 2179 2442 2660 2955 2731 2509 2810 2736 2746 66333
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   351 416 565 567 585 622 793 836 1086 947 965 1082 970 1065 955 993 849 1016 1118 1041 929 1095 1234 1279 1685 1461 1822 1564 1632 1507 1400 1516 1527 1583 1575 2010 1924 2179 2442 2660 2955 2731 2509 2810 2736 2746 66333
GERMANY   106 121 171 195 186 180 230 246 348 308 346 383 398 410 378 387 364 453 529 446 432 510 562 521 701 630 789 704 717 661 582 630 625 638 632 847 832 952 1132 1240 1482 1356 1225 1352 1319 1326 28585
UNITED KINGDOM   140 151 174 171 192 176 242 265 284 239 236 263 209 226 197 244 175 173 202 209 151 195 201 255 289 271 347 287 265 249 221 255 255 266 285 318 296 320 380 388 410 400 381 400 382 308 11948
FRANCE   50 69 108 98 100 131 171 156 207 176 181 201 159 179 152 152 134 164 146 169 153 169 215 213 314 241 342 255 303 290 278 262 279 260 258 334 282 317 312 324 342 299 311 339 328 384 10307
SWEDEN   18 18 31 32 36 36 50 41 68 63 51 75 65 82 74 61 53 72 50 63 44 69 64 63 103 77 89 58 57 55 52 77 113 92 89 115 120 152 153 169 153 145 149 163 153 129 3739
NETHERLANDS   18 31 32 26 21 30 39 32 54 40 39 47 30 51 39 45 40 42 49 45 40 48 69 59 89 71 86 75 105 72 62 90 86 94 82 130 126 138 149 164 143 143 110 139 147 191 3457
ITALY   7 4 19 9 18 20 19 32 37 32 37 30 33 37 40 33 19 39 48 42 34 34 44 58 60 64 62 60 58 63 75 75 51 67 62 78 66 73 106 118 125 110 87 110 114 114 2525
FINLAND   0 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 10 5 5 14 7 6 5 9 11 10 20 11 8 17 17 25 47 29 25 33 44 37 37 45 35 55 50 56 51 60 61 72 93 77 62 67 75 67 1358
BELGIUM   5 9 11 15 8 17 13 18 35 24 24 25 18 24 21 21 12 18 22 12 20 13 14 12 13 18 13 22 22 17 18 23 24 40 44 51 53 50 43 59 49 39 39 50 65 56 1218
AUSTRIA   0 6 7 9 8 10 9 17 17 25 17 18 21 14 16 9 13 11 19 16 20 17 15 20 21 27 31 25 23 30 40 22 27 23 25 25 28 33 33 43 54 46 46 61 50 56 1096
DENMARK   4 3 6 5 6 9 10 9 12 16 10 10 13 21 16 15 18 17 12 15 10 11 17 23 26 17 18 20 18 13 22 21 16 17 26 28 43 42 40 40 57 67 41 71 50 42 1014
SPAIN   1 2 2 2 2 0 0 3 1 4 3 4 3 4 2 2 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 7 7 6 8 8 7 14 7 13 5 17 8 13 9 9 19 11 16 25 258
HUNGARY   1 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 4 3 5 10 5 8 9 6 8 5 6 18 13 6 7 8 5 3 1 1 3 1 3 4 6 1 8 3 5 4 3 3 4 7 219
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 0 1 2 5 3 8 4 4 5 2 2 2 5 7 4 9 14 6 13 16 19 15 21 18 17 215
POLAND   0 0 0 2 1 1 3 7 3 8 4 4 2 0 3 1 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 5 2 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 1 5 0 2 1 2 0 1 2 3 2 4 5 7 98
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 3 3 0 1 4 3 3 3 2 0 2 0 0 2 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 4 7 6 0 1 1 59
GREECE   1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 3 3 1 2 3 3 2 3 5 2 3 52
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 3 4 1 1 1 3 2 2 0 2 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 3 41
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 3 3 3 2 0 2 3 1 0 1 3 2 2 1 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 40
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 2 3 2 3 3 1 8 3 5 32
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 3 20
ESTONIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 5 1 1 1 15
SLOVENIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 0 0 1 2 1 2 13
LITHUANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 13
SLOVAKIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 5
LATVIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
MALTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2

Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   34 55 75 84 78 62 87 81 143 97 106 108 111 128 96 111 78 92 111 127 94 108 132 131 178 151 189 176 197 159 157 186 185 189 207 249 261 278 331 288 283 300 284 328 323 319 7549
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 3 5 3 3 2 2 1 2 5 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 49
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 2 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 3 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 39
FOREIGN CORPORATION   213 263 368 351 378 428 559 581 765 660 684 740 683 775 701 728 642 756 861 727 676 786 870 917 1222 1106 1345 1156 1199 1143 1044 1145 1148 1232 1182 1521 1473 1728 1894 2153 2480 2269 2114 2354 2279 2309 50612
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   19 17 18 39 30 21 29 39 26 16 32 33 30 24 25 29 22 17 12 43 38 42 57 55 89 42 66 45 63 58 59 33 34 32 31 30 20 8 6 8 5 6 4 4 9 3 1363
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   85 81 98 86 96 107 116 130 148 171 137 194 141 136 130 124 108 150 132 143 120 155 174 176 196 162 220 185 173 145 139 151 159 130 152 208 168 165 211 210 185 154 108 123 125 113 6721

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


Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
NAICS 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
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
Total, U.S. And Foreign Origin   2136 395 583 665 672 817 847 842 863 859 911 993 957 1000 1124 1150 1126 1270 1071 1171 1056 1272 1316 1459 1498 1539 1621 1628 1524 1440 1524 1823 1857 1946 2291 2447 2698 3006 3399 3790 3103 2281 1393 797 168 5 66333
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   2136 395 583 665 672 817 847 842 863 859 911 993 957 1000 1124 1150 1126 1270 1071 1171 1056 1272 1316 1459 1498 1539 1621 1628 1524 1440 1524 1823 1857 1946 2291 2447 2698 3006 3399 3790 3103 2281 1393 797 168 5 66333
GERMANY   669 123 180 194 192 243 266 297 292 299 362 396 368 404 467 517 500 566 492 526 456 538 560 635 645 688 716 713 632 625 575 731 761 816 1012 1088 1236 1415 1609 1867 1471 1197 726 425 89 4 28585
UNITED KINGDOM   709 127 184 179 214 239 219 222 208 209 207 204 217 226 230 205 226 236 183 207 186 232 246 254 294 284 292 249 239 238 264 312 313 322 364 364 400 471 494 517 434 249 175 85 13 0 11948
FRANCE   370 75 103 150 124 162 167 150 167 169 153 155 148 157 180 181 160 218 169 201 184 221 226 248 265 262 292 315 301 251 273 298 340 296 311 349 351 348 385 464 422 257 169 85 32 0 10307
SWEDEN   112 18 38 40 39 52 46 49 57 54 57 84 73 60 88 58 65 61 58 68 59 65 80 76 69 55 56 60 59 70 115 119 93 107 147 159 179 188 215 215 165 118 57 32 4 0 3739
NETHERLANDS   117 20 27 31 24 32 48 28 35 33 33 44 50 34 51 57 41 58 51 53 46 67 65 87 56 75 89 91 68 80 101 105 96 126 150 146 157 174 205 178 163 136 75 40 10 1 3457
ITALY   45 7 18 24 24 30 21 36 27 30 28 33 36 38 27 47 45 52 41 43 37 49 46 57 57 69 49 65 80 66 76 66 60 88 73 105 104 109 146 158 124 91 57 37 6 0 2525
FINLAND   1 0 2 1 2 7 6 4 8 9 5 9 3 8 13 13 17 15 9 18 18 38 30 12 41 21 45 33 53 39 35 60 52 59 60 59 79 68 110 103 87 57 35 20 2 0 1358
BELGIUM   45 10 11 16 19 21 20 17 21 19 20 20 22 23 15 19 21 16 19 12 14 15 11 18 11 18 21 17 19 19 31 41 62 52 49 57 50 61 48 60 59 40 27 26 3 0 1218
AUSTRIA   25 6 6 10 13 13 24 14 16 15 15 21 14 11 12 16 16 15 24 12 19 16 19 28 20 25 28 36 37 24 17 36 29 26 26 34 42 58 53 72 49 49 30 26 3 0 1096
DENMARK   20 2 11 6 8 6 15 10 13 9 12 16 13 17 23 19 13 18 10 10 18 15 20 23 20 20 10 27 22 14 18 22 24 31 49 51 56 68 75 81 60 31 9 7 0 0 1014
SPAIN   7 1 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 2 5 2 2 2 3 1 3 1 1 1 4 0 2 5 3 5 6 8 5 6 12 15 10 6 14 11 12 15 12 20 24 12 8 5 2 0 258
HUNGARY   11 2 2 4 4 2 4 2 4 4 4 3 4 12 10 3 10 10 5 10 11 10 6 9 6 7 6 5 3 0 1 3 4 3 6 6 6 2 3 6 5 4 4 0 1 0 219
IRELAND   1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 3 3 2 0 2 3 3 8 4 4 3 3 3 1 6 6 8 15 11 6 17 18 27 17 17 10 5 3 0 215
POLAND   3 2 0 5 4 3 3 7 4 2 2 1 2 3 1 3 3 1 3 4 0 4 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 2 5 0 2 0 3 1 2 1 8 3 4 3 2 0 0 98
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 4 1 3 1 2 3 4 1 0 2 0 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 4 3 7 3 4 1 2 0 0 0 59
GREECE   1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 0 3 2 3 4 1 3 5 4 1 0 0 0 52
ROMANIA   0 1 0 1 2 4 4 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 41
BULGARIA   0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 2 1 2 3 1 3 3 0 1 2 2 0 3 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 40
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 2 1 5 1 4 5 3 4 1 3 1 0 32
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 20
ESTONIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 15
SLOVENIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 13
LITHUANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 13
SLOVAKIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
LATVIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
MALTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   273 53 62 84 60 80 115 75 88 89 96 127 114 96 117 109 116 140 109 109 119 138 135 152 154 154 205 166 172 176 182 224 242 269 306 307 323 302 355 386 345 269 209 114 29 1 7549
U.S. GOVERNMENT   12 1 2 2 3 2 0 2 4 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 49
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4 0 0 2 2 4 3 0 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 39
FOREIGN CORPORATION   1352 264 397 446 478 589 577 609 602 608 637 704 698 735 839 862 851 905 759 849 769 887 975 1082 1118 1139 1186 1226 1148 1086 1156 1386 1397 1477 1773 1943 2131 2466 2837 3184 2632 1936 1129 652 134 4 50612
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   109 21 21 27 24 27 23 14 29 22 29 24 24 27 32 18 22 56 39 60 35 60 60 57 45 41 65 65 55 35 29 42 31 23 19 16 7 6 8 10 6 3 1 0 0 0 1363
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   388 56 101 106 106 115 129 142 139 137 143 137 117 142 136 160 134 169 164 150 133 186 146 168 179 204 162 171 148 142 155 170 185 176 191 181 235 230 198 209 120 73 52 30 5 0 6721

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


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