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


Asia 10 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 -

Asia 10 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.


Asia 10 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 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
    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   2 3 5 8 20 18 18 37 76 102 70 126 110 118 154 156 142 171 218 268 301 363 521 541 717 797 1061 1024 1111 1374 1502 1573 1653 2078 2140 3542 3544 3404 3647 3679 3972 4251 3796 5548 5223 6158 65347
-- 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   2 3 5 8 20 18 18 37 76 102 70 126 110 118 154 156 142 171 218 268 301 363 521 541 717 797 1061 1024 1111 1374 1502 1573 1653 2078 2140 3542 3544 3404 3647 3679 3972 4251 3796 5548 5223 6158 65347
JAPAN   2 3 5 8 20 16 17 37 76 101 67 126 110 116 153 156 141 171 218 268 300 362 520 538 714 793 1053 1001 1082 1319 1421 1485 1543 1917 1936 3154 3091 2941 3122 3055 3319 3454 2983 4295 3922 4420 55556
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 29 38 45 55 89 107 235 291 275 279 242 235 276 303 480 484 672 4159
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 3 3 13 13 23 37 34 38 55 73 131 135 157 191 295 327 396 374 528 505 613 3953
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 5 3 4 3 2 5 8 16 17 27 30 84 118 219 550
INDIA   0 0 0 0 0 2 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 4 2 1 1 3 2 12 16 27 50 59 87 114 155 537
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 4 5 11 10 9 15 12 21 45 29 34 26 46 36 48 359
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 3 3 3 0 8 7 6 8 11 6 12 14 12 15 27 14 156
MALAYSIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 7 10 17 15 62
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 8
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4
INDONESIA   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
CHINA, MACAU S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

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   0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 1 2 2 0 3 0 3 4 2 2 4 9 13 20 16 26 16 27 21 40 70 52 96 87 72 112 115 133 172 184 265 291 384 2252
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2 1 5 6 16 13 16 33 74 93 65 117 108 112 147 149 137 165 216 252 293 357 513 528 700 772 1026 989 1070 1330 1449 1524 1589 1975 2053 3392 3405 3277 3482 3492 3759 4005 3530 5201 4854 5723 62018
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 0 3 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 32
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   0 2 0 1 3 3 1 3 2 8 1 6 3 5 5 4 5 2 1 10 4 4 3 8 8 9 15 19 13 27 25 26 23 32 32 53 52 55 54 71 76 75 82 82 77 50 1040

Asia 10 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 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
    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   26 14 19 21 32 46 49 85 73 85 130 126 127 163 169 191 251 329 385 464 479 542 633 763 884 1060 1246 1440 1662 1734 1950 2488 3352 3682 4260 4080 4135 4728 5269 5063 4947 4173 2654 1068 262 5 65347
-- 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   26 14 19 21 32 46 49 85 73 85 130 126 127 163 169 191 251 329 385 464 479 542 633 763 884 1060 1246 1440 1662 1734 1950 2488 3352 3682 4260 4080 4135 4728 5269 5063 4947 4173 2654 1068 262 5 65347
JAPAN   25 14 18 20 32 46 49 84 72 84 129 126 126 163 168 191 251 329 383 462 478 542 629 760 875 1045 1207 1391 1574 1641 1824 2300 3089 3259 3702 3431 3476 3910 4373 3839 3664 2914 1918 752 187 4 55556
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 14 32 45 46 63 103 142 267 366 398 280 320 372 434 490 444 213 89 32 0 4159
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 5 8 20 14 34 37 42 62 96 135 152 198 282 293 345 548 554 558 369 154 36 1 3953
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 5 5 3 2 4 9 18 48 37 72 78 122 91 45 1 0 550
INDIA   1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 1 0 4 3 7 32 72 73 103 105 69 37 17 5 0 537
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 3 9 14 11 11 19 23 32 59 39 42 31 36 14 7 0 0 359
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 5 1 3 9 5 9 11 11 20 23 17 10 14 7 1 0 0 156
MALAYSIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 5 0 3 3 2 8 15 15 5 2 0 0 62
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
INDONESIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
CHINA, MACAU S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1

Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 4 1 1 2 5 1 1 3 6 13 13 10 18 24 26 22 40 47 62 97 89 99 129 151 258 253 254 242 214 110 37 10 0 2252
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 0 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 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   20 12 15 19 30 43 47 77 69 79 124 123 120 155 162 188 242 313 378 457 468 529 611 741 859 1028 1199 1394 1612 1667 1870 2380 3219 3543 4080 3894 3918 4365 4903 4727 4624 3922 2519 1017 251 4 62018
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 3 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   4 1 5 1 2 2 0 8 1 4 5 3 7 3 5 1 6 9 5 4 6 5 7 9 14 14 20 17 27 27 32 43 35 48 81 58 65 102 113 81 82 37 25 14 1 1 1040

Asia 10 Countries
Fractional Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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