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


Asia 10 Countries
Whole Counts

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


Parts of the Report

Description of the Report
Report Printing and Use of Spreadsheet Software

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


Description of the Report

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


PATENTS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT

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


PARTS A1 AND A2 (IF INCLUDED)

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

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

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

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

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


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


DATA DISTRIBUTION BY YEAR OF GRANT AND BY YEAR OF APPLICATION

Other Considerations

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

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

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

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


Report Printing and the Use of Spreadsheet Software

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

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


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


Part A1
Tables A1-a and A1-b
NAICS 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
    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   109 154 213 276 373 367 541 627 712 1273 967 1216 1433 1555 1257 1344 949 1300 1599 1450 1507 1686 1996 1845 2018 2114 2735 2952 3059 3292 3549 3289 3123 3021 3129 3841 3821 3636 4037 4020 3719 3379 2704 3418 3220 3187 96012
-- 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   109 154 213 276 373 367 541 627 712 1273 967 1216 1433 1555 1257 1344 949 1300 1599 1450 1507 1686 1996 1845 2018 2114 2735 2952 3059 3292 3549 3289 3123 3021 3129 3841 3821 3636 4037 4020 3719 3379 2704 3418 3220 3187 96012
JAPAN   103 154 209 273 370 354 532 616 705 1257 946 1204 1425 1536 1243 1325 935 1287 1582 1443 1487 1670 1968 1827 1991 2086 2682 2882 2984 3196 3410 3150 2929 2818 2890 3512 3389 3182 3468 3347 3009 2682 2090 2622 2431 2366 87567
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 3 1 4 1 3 5 1 6 8 9 2 5 5 15 20 29 38 57 56 94 108 109 137 190 199 233 271 296 270 227 305 324 319 3356
INDIA   1 0 3 2 1 4 8 8 5 9 13 7 3 12 6 11 11 4 4 1 9 5 6 12 9 9 8 16 10 16 24 13 20 18 29 58 77 88 122 178 206 179 172 202 167 176 1942
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 4 4 4 5 3 10 3 4 6 14 19 25 28 37 55 51 59 67 78 119 108 145 135 117 135 117 148 133 170 1810
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 13 9 8 10 16 9 16 12 27 32 22 37 45 61 59 74 54 71 93 82 771
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 7 2 3 7 7 7 13 14 10 21 23 34 42 43 251
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 2 4 4 3 11 10 9 8 4 13 12 11 23 20 17 164
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 5 3 7 5 7 8 49
PHILIPPINES   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 0 39
THAILAND   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 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 5 3 1 5 1 1 1 6 1 6 38
INDONESIA   0 0 0 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 24
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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Table A1-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Grant.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   4 4 4 4 20 22 15 17 24 31 18 48 28 37 22 42 32 45 45 24 18 27 22 20 37 34 46 45 64 54 59 45 59 53 71 107 106 108 157 111 101 103 65 97 86 88 2269
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 3 4 3 46
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 22
FOREIGN CORPORATION   90 135 187 242 316 321 489 561 637 1170 891 1097 1361 1477 1197 1257 874 1198 1477 1367 1426 1609 1915 1753 1920 2012 2598 2798 2898 3142 3392 3170 2991 2880 2958 3588 3572 3405 3730 3764 3455 3144 2538 3190 3016 3009 90217
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 5 7 2 9 17 19 21 17 23 12 17 19 18 27 28 30 30 32 22 14 8 21 22 21 13 15 10 15 13 6 4 3 5 2 535
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   14 14 22 30 34 24 37 44 46 68 56 70 39 33 35 35 25 38 56 42 39 36 38 51 41 40 62 78 67 63 75 58 64 66 77 123 129 106 138 129 148 124 91 125 109 84 2923

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


Part A2
Tables A2-a and A2-b
NAICS 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
    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   935 265 413 435 607 737 829 937 1049 919 1208 1394 1261 1144 1246 1297 1467 1622 1615 1729 1695 1846 2041 2216 2456 2900 3295 3196 3098 3258 3165 3500 3939 3623 4008 3646 3964 4501 4971 5016 3771 2488 1407 687 205 11 96012
-- 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   935 265 413 435 607 737 829 937 1049 919 1208 1394 1261 1144 1246 1297 1467 1622 1615 1729 1695 1846 2041 2216 2456 2900 3295 3196 3098 3258 3165 3500 3939 3623 4008 3646 3964 4501 4971 5016 3771 2488 1407 687 205 11 96012
JAPAN   920 259 405 428 594 726 822 925 1034 907 1200 1374 1248 1127 1231 1282 1453 1615 1595 1706 1676 1829 2021 2178 2419 2831 3212 3105 2991 3115 2987 3248 3645 3316 3605 3172 3438 3715 4053 3878 2820 1827 1015 466 146 8 87567
KOREA, SOUTH   0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 3 2 4 3 6 8 6 4 4 5 10 26 30 30 44 57 76 130 136 140 156 209 224 327 368 460 366 251 159 85 13 1 3356
INDIA   6 0 5 5 10 9 5 4 9 7 5 12 5 10 9 7 3 2 9 5 7 8 8 15 4 13 17 16 13 28 17 26 31 52 84 89 104 183 263 308 246 168 63 43 9 0 1942
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 4 6 1 4 8 5 4 3 4 13 12 22 28 36 42 61 62 84 64 110 110 130 159 127 202 178 139 91 65 27 2 1810
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 7 13 11 12 9 11 19 14 31 33 23 45 38 80 98 96 94 51 42 15 7 0 771
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 2 9 1 5 12 7 11 13 28 38 45 27 23 10 1 0 251
SINGAPORE   0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 10 8 6 10 8 12 17 18 22 13 16 5 1 2 0 164
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 2 9 5 6 5 5 2 0 0 49
PHILIPPINES   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 39
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 2 4 2 5 4 2 2 4 0 0 0 38
INDONESIA   3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 24
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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Table A2-b, Breakout by Ownership Category
of Patents Granted as Distributed by Year of Patent Application.
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
    1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 All Years
U.S. CORPORATION   28 17 20 10 16 10 26 25 23 44 28 31 21 32 38 47 40 28 19 27 26 11 40 41 35 52 53 74 37 62 57 67 90 91 112 111 144 134 117 143 93 65 50 28 5 1 2269
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 3 2 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 46
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 22
FOREIGN CORPORATION   807 234 362 386 548 667 771 857 974 811 1141 1326 1207 1067 1159 1194 1352 1526 1541 1645 1609 1774 1936 2109 2338 2747 3135 3038 2960 3113 3034 3332 3717 3405 3760 3399 3669 4211 4632 4679 3547 2345 1320 632 191 10 90217
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 5 6 4 6 17 15 22 19 16 18 19 18 15 25 25 35 29 26 24 17 12 18 21 24 16 12 14 17 12 14 2 1 0 1 0 0 535
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   97 13 30 38 38 58 28 54 50 60 33 30 29 37 32 41 53 49 38 37 38 41 47 40 58 64 77 57 76 64 62 81 109 102 116 124 137 136 208 175 122 76 36 25 7 0 2923

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


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