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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

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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 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
    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   865 980 1448 1609 1539 1491 1960 2048 2633 2312 2347 2457 2277 2437 2285 2255 1814 2217 2425 2349 2068 2334 2783 2906 3712 3412 4174 3544 3698 3315 3260 3534 3813 4060 3981 5687 5792 6365 7133 7652 8247 8325 7613 9518 8761 9171 174605
-- 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   865 980 1448 1609 1539 1491 1960 2048 2633 2312 2347 2457 2277 2437 2285 2255 1814 2217 2425 2349 2068 2334 2783 2906 3712 3412 4174 3544 3698 3315 3260 3534 3813 4060 3981 5687 5792 6365 7133 7652 8247 8325 7613 9518 8761 9171 174605
GERMANY   263 294 403 583 513 467 632 623 846 791 835 850 871 854 825 815 729 844 1043 914 864 945 1123 1073 1378 1324 1577 1303 1396 1210 1145 1218 1265 1281 1291 1867 1886 2166 2475 2707 3120 3126 2907 3526 3357 3474 62998
UNITED KINGDOM   307 334 471 454 475 404 586 591 707 538 521 557 501 513 459 516 350 419 446 450 353 410 476 593 702 651 834 698 694 609 568 634 725 739 729 1036 1075 1112 1281 1331 1337 1451 1372 1650 1530 1488 33676
FRANCE   106 127 218 246 239 284 343 361 448 401 419 463 398 456 415 391 322 419 412 459 400 452 552 554 717 652 818 686 743 706 722 722 766 783 765 989 972 997 1046 1126 1129 1168 1083 1370 1212 1340 29397
NETHERLANDS   94 101 148 136 125 114 143 151 210 179 226 210 177 224 213 201 160 192 172 199 187 212 248 254 368 292 387 351 360 282 248 307 343 358 298 521 473 458 490 560 553 548 416 590 542 611 13634
SWEDEN   47 47 75 74 73 78 103 92 129 125 99 127 111 146 124 121 80 105 81 91 76 105 116 122 159 133 149 109 101 109 119 171 232 268 247 364 444 568 594 621 555 486 470 536 431 429 9645
ITALY   18 24 41 31 37 50 53 82 105 103 94 86 84 102 113 88 71 109 122 118 72 83 114 128 186 165 191 187 158 165 188 187 172 234 249 337 290 345 426 435 435 376 330 412 373 418 8189
FINLAND   0 0 1 0 1 3 2 3 11 7 7 17 9 7 6 10 11 15 25 15 12 23 26 31 59 34 36 43 71 68 73 109 109 150 140 237 275 273 322 389 469 527 427 634 611 591 5885
BELGIUM   10 25 45 42 32 36 36 60 88 69 68 69 49 57 49 47 24 44 45 27 35 31 45 35 38 54 53 40 61 51 71 69 80 104 106 154 148 165 166 150 170 177 155 191 186 192 3649
AUSTRIA   5 14 29 20 16 22 25 35 42 39 33 34 36 25 32 23 25 20 35 26 32 38 26 38 40 47 57 49 53 48 58 48 47 38 54 59 65 91 97 99 149 141 139 185 143 179 2555
DENMARK   10 8 8 11 15 17 19 20 19 23 14 13 17 27 22 20 25 25 17 22 12 16 25 32 29 22 35 28 24 26 25 32 26 29 36 38 82 70 75 85 122 120 97 169 126 132 1862
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 6 1 1 5 0 1 0 5 1 2 5 0 6 5 11 11 13 13 12 13 15 12 21 28 29 23 29 39 60 56 77 101 71 101 91 105 980
SPAIN   3 2 3 3 2 1 0 4 3 6 5 7 5 9 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 1 2 4 4 7 7 9 11 13 17 14 10 26 20 36 21 57 55 51 70 57 76 82 74 105 898
HUNGARY   3 4 6 6 5 4 4 6 7 9 6 6 6 5 10 12 10 11 10 11 9 8 12 24 18 12 11 16 7 7 3 4 4 3 6 10 12 4 14 9 27 11 14 13 19 21 434
POLAND   0 0 0 2 3 4 7 9 7 10 6 5 2 0 5 2 3 4 5 4 2 3 1 5 3 2 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 5 1 3 1 3 5 4 3 7 10 14 16 27 194
GREECE   1 0 1 0 4 0 2 3 0 1 3 5 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 4 4 5 2 7 2 5 7 4 6 4 6 4 8 9 10 9 121
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 3 1 4 3 4 2 1 2 4 3 2 4 6 3 3 4 5 7 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 12 96
ROMANIA   0 0 0 1 0 3 1 5 5 6 3 3 2 3 3 2 0 2 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 3 3 7 7 10 88
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 5 4 6 9 11 7 9 10 10 14 86
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 3 3 0 2 4 3 4 3 3 0 2 0 0 2 5 1 0 3 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 7 9 2 4 2 82
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 3 2 0 2 5 1 2 4 3 5 3 5 47
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 1 2 1 2 3 3 4 5 0 1 1 3 3 3 32
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 1 0 4 2 3 17
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 2 1 16
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 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 10
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 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 6
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 1 1 1 0 0 4
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 1 0 3

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   172 223 350 388 338 288 391 458 576 407 458 455 469 483 424 416 313 377 407 404 389 489 561 623 711 633 771 695 743 631 607 658 805 808 848 1207 1259 1303 1440 1126 1078 1320 1232 1598 1446 1670 32452
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 1 6 6 7 6 5 3 2 5 7 6 6 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 90
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 1 3 2 2 3 1 3 3 1 3 4 3 4 3 0 0 2 3 1 0 1 4 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 2 2 0 1 2 3 65
FOREIGN CORPORATION   517 587 873 1000 969 976 1302 1309 1730 1553 1585 1598 1483 1669 1569 1571 1296 1538 1738 1602 1397 1504 1829 1895 2521 2388 2894 2429 2537 2325 2317 2563 2707 2952 2814 4050 4171 4727 5304 6139 6839 6702 6138 7597 7039 7216 127463
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   29 24 37 53 51 38 54 62 51 30 48 60 67 62 61 63 38 57 50 84 72 86 112 109 153 103 131 118 127 113 115 78 57 61 59 66 37 19 16 20 6 10 10 8 15 8 2722
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   145 144 180 161 172 180 205 214 271 318 247 335 249 220 227 205 166 243 226 259 207 252 277 279 327 285 374 299 291 245 220 233 241 239 259 361 322 314 371 363 322 291 231 312 258 272 11814

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 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
    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   5596 1092 1528 1594 1651 1875 1927 1941 2084 2047 2145 2368 2276 2248 2418 2475 2541 2805 2407 2540 2463 2798 2935 3251 3403 3580 3703 3642 3543 3517 3825 4656 5228 5910 7287 7633 8917 10082 10867 11078 8688 6145 3710 1784 383 19 174605
-- 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   5596 1092 1528 1594 1651 1875 1927 1941 2084 2047 2145 2368 2276 2248 2418 2475 2541 2805 2407 2540 2463 2798 2935 3251 3403 3580 3703 3642 3543 3517 3825 4656 5228 5910 7287 7633 8917 10082 10867 11078 8688 6145 3710 1784 383 19 174605
GERMANY   1781 351 532 497 490 580 620 697 738 689 798 849 793 832 935 982 1009 1125 994 1003 928 1046 1128 1243 1318 1329 1375 1325 1240 1217 1173 1504 1652 1877 2314 2520 3001 3499 3906 4398 3379 2637 1703 829 157 7 62998
UNITED KINGDOM   1767 340 433 449 466 526 507 463 454 466 479 495 496 478 497 460 488 516 409 453 490 549 584 614 677 686 753 643 638 628 733 882 977 1099 1388 1421 1585 1785 1949 1867 1404 839 539 242 54 6 33676
FRANCE   813 184 243 288 304 324 330 332 368 400 386 439 400 405 415 474 461 552 475 517 473 537 545 615 648 699 744 792 762 728 789 874 1007 985 1124 1156 1388 1523 1441 1580 1296 835 458 223 57 3 29397
NETHERLANDS   538 92 99 113 135 144 159 145 187 174 186 203 228 189 203 222 197 260 206 218 211 255 274 308 277 355 347 329 273 313 360 416 423 537 573 523 560 631 772 752 581 395 177 71 18 1 13634
SWEDEN   272 37 85 89 83 97 92 87 102 97 110 138 124 118 138 91 99 95 96 109 109 122 117 129 124 102 97 127 146 148 257 299 333 384 700 721 710 767 678 528 393 273 149 64 7 0 9645
ITALY   122 20 50 57 60 76 80 84 78 95 59 102 102 101 98 111 131 122 98 104 99 124 124 169 156 201 154 188 194 183 199 242 313 323 365 387 437 457 516 501 455 292 212 119 27 1 8189
FINLAND   1 1 2 2 2 8 9 5 9 12 7 11 4 9 13 16 25 17 17 27 21 46 41 18 47 34 68 63 91 104 112 151 189 329 377 357 588 728 758 595 455 312 143 53 11 0 5885
BELGIUM   141 34 25 48 49 57 52 52 71 50 47 55 55 43 35 36 43 39 31 32 43 40 31 50 44 51 52 48 73 64 85 110 147 172 166 196 206 192 190 199 213 147 80 46 7 0 3649
AUSTRIA   75 15 25 19 26 27 36 30 29 27 30 32 31 25 26 28 34 29 39 32 32 26 37 43 51 45 56 58 49 56 44 53 61 70 66 101 126 135 168 203 152 139 89 70 12 0 2555
DENMARK   45 6 24 13 11 13 22 14 18 12 16 20 19 22 28 29 23 23 14 15 25 23 25 28 30 33 16 35 31 22 29 34 38 52 86 94 135 131 188 183 118 76 25 16 4 0 1862
IRELAND   1 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 4 1 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 4 5 3 3 6 9 11 13 10 12 10 19 18 14 38 32 25 45 66 61 107 94 121 69 66 56 19 16 1 980
SPAIN   12 1 1 0 2 2 5 7 4 4 7 6 5 2 5 1 4 2 3 2 5 2 4 5 6 10 9 10 14 19 17 28 29 35 45 51 57 74 119 70 100 63 41 11 5 0 898
HUNGARY   19 5 3 5 5 4 5 7 5 7 6 6 8 14 16 5 10 16 9 13 16 17 10 13 10 16 10 7 7 3 2 3 11 8 12 13 18 16 26 22 14 8 10 0 2 0 434
POLAND   4 4 1 8 6 7 4 12 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 7 6 2 3 5 0 5 1 1 1 5 2 0 1 0 2 5 0 3 0 6 7 8 9 18 16 15 6 4 0 0 194
GREECE   3 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 4 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 10 4 6 5 4 6 8 6 4 4 11 11 7 4 1 1 0 121
BULGARIA   0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 4 3 4 1 3 3 2 3 4 3 6 3 5 0 6 3 2 4 6 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 11 3 1 0 0 96
ROMANIA   1 1 1 1 3 6 5 3 5 2 1 2 3 3 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 4 5 7 0 2 6 4 6 2 0 88
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 2 5 2 10 7 18 10 6 8 6 8 3 0 86
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 1 2 4 1 4 1 3 4 5 1 0 2 0 0 1 4 3 2 1 2 2 0 3 0 4 3 9 7 7 2 2 0 0 0 82
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 3 1 4 4 5 1 4 3 5 4 3 0 0 0 47
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 1 1 1 2 1 4 3 3 6 2 0 3 4 2 1 0 0 0 32
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 2 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 17
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 6 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 16
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 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 10
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 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6
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 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4
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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

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   1282 252 303 344 352 373 385 342 362 401 427 499 449 389 422 431 447 505 453 512 539 557 565 604 610 677 760 688 671 708 778 955 1189 1271 1540 1436 1497 1504 1675 1684 1381 1020 749 348 100 12 32452
U.S. GOVERNMENT   17 6 4 6 6 3 0 2 6 5 6 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 0 90
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   8 0 0 3 2 5 3 0 3 0 5 3 3 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 3 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 65
FOREIGN CORPORATION   3410 685 1016 1018 1065 1262 1267 1319 1424 1339 1404 1576 1553 1563 1719 1714 1790 1901 1602 1676 1603 1838 2009 2261 2371 2479 2550 2520 2520 2502 2745 3337 3649 4246 5346 5805 6975 8123 8774 8978 7031 4973 2859 1388 270 7 127463
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   170 34 37 47 46 41 36 28 44 47 54 62 64 59 67 58 64 106 82 106 88 113 113 105 99 108 128 132 114 75 63 72 61 54 39 30 16 11 14 12 17 6 2 1 0 0 2722
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   709 115 166 176 181 191 236 249 246 255 250 227 207 236 210 270 235 293 269 241 231 287 247 280 321 314 262 303 237 232 235 291 327 336 360 360 427 440 401 400 259 143 97 46 13 0 11814

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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