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


EU 27 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 -

EU 27 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.


EU 27 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 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
    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   89 122 176 274 293 267 330 344 310 482 245 308 283 355 298 339 251 270 293 255 275 296 246 230 272 348 428 442 472 488 514 426 383 388 444 508 404 454 565 499 507 473 290 374 277 217 15804
-- 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   89 122 176 274 293 267 330 344 310 482 245 308 283 355 298 339 251 270 293 255 275 296 246 230 272 348 428 442 472 488 514 426 383 388 444 508 404 454 565 499 507 473 290 374 277 217 15804
GERMANY   51 54 87 129 153 136 166 167 154 225 121 153 141 182 169 182 150 159 150 130 161 179 131 144 162 206 225 234 239 273 267 235 202 232 253 279 219 236 280 244 273 251 164 175 135 98 8356
FRANCE   9 11 11 12 22 30 32 41 48 68 30 40 40 53 38 41 23 33 44 39 28 27 28 27 33 36 54 59 61 58 63 41 51 43 36 65 37 53 61 53 67 51 44 50 34 30 1855
UNITED KINGDOM   12 18 32 52 54 44 55 63 49 83 49 51 45 57 51 51 28 23 40 33 40 38 29 20 27 27 23 44 43 44 38 28 37 20 39 39 27 32 34 36 27 39 17 37 19 17 1711
ITALY   12 26 26 49 36 27 42 40 23 58 27 40 35 28 15 25 21 17 24 20 11 16 24 12 17 29 40 42 41 34 50 50 37 49 44 36 35 47 58 52 42 48 20 35 25 24 1509
NETHERLANDS   2 10 16 16 17 20 17 13 19 28 11 11 13 17 9 15 6 17 12 26 19 19 16 10 13 31 59 39 59 43 51 34 25 18 27 41 36 32 39 48 37 32 13 20 22 9 1087
BELGIUM   3 2 3 9 8 7 9 14 12 14 6 9 5 16 9 12 17 15 16 0 8 4 7 6 6 6 14 10 13 14 22 20 12 13 23 29 25 30 48 34 30 30 19 32 22 21 684
AUSTRIA   0 0 1 1 0 1 3 4 2 5 1 2 1 2 2 4 3 3 2 3 4 5 3 4 6 4 9 3 7 13 7 4 5 3 9 3 5 7 10 8 6 4 1 9 4 3 186
FINLAND   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 7 1 3 0 3 7 8 8 3 7 10 10 10 20 13 12 10 7 4 8 8 164
SWEDEN   0 1 0 5 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 2 2 1 2 7 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 9 6 3 1 0 5 4 2 91
IRELAND   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 4 3 2 2 1 0 2 6 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 46
SPAIN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 30
DENMARK   0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 24
POLAND   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 15
LUXEMBOURG   0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 2 0 14
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
GREECE   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 9
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 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 4
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 4
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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   7 8 19 35 38 27 20 23 24 36 11 11 13 15 15 27 20 13 22 24 26 17 18 13 23 31 60 49 58 72 77 47 43 49 42 69 54 64 67 73 62 56 33 52 50 33 1646
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 0 0 1 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 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   78 110 151 222 244 231 304 309 269 425 223 284 258 336 273 304 224 256 262 225 243 267 223 207 241 310 353 381 403 400 424 372 333 334 392 432 339 382 486 418 434 411 251 317 219 182 13742
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 2 5 1 5 3 4 7 2 1 5 4 3 2 0 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3 3 6 15 11 7 6 8 15 20 11 13 10 3 10 6 6 1 8 3 4 7 3 3 4 3 8 10 10 11 9 4 5 5 7 5 10 7 11 8 11 6 6 5 8 2 337

EU 27 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 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
    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   878 184 233 268 284 321 318 270 254 280 267 297 334 275 284 304 258 261 264 265 229 236 273 341 390 444 519 491 448 423 406 422 624 476 571 453 496 482 571 628 419 236 76 39 11 1 15804
-- 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   878 184 233 268 284 321 318 270 254 280 267 297 334 275 284 304 258 261 264 265 229 236 273 341 390 444 519 491 448 423 406 422 624 476 571 453 496 482 571 628 419 236 76 39 11 1 15804
GERMANY   425 101 132 112 134 162 154 125 122 129 136 155 186 150 171 180 138 144 141 155 132 144 163 201 210 232 278 255 234 230 221 239 349 263 317 220 262 224 290 329 238 117 38 14 3 1 8356
FRANCE   56 22 23 30 38 39 49 38 35 32 43 38 41 30 40 34 39 34 32 28 24 25 37 42 47 61 57 59 58 46 41 46 66 54 64 54 39 63 78 70 58 28 8 7 2 0 1855
UNITED KINGDOM   158 27 34 56 47 54 51 55 44 49 42 57 54 46 25 26 32 28 42 38 25 21 30 22 27 37 46 55 31 26 28 35 56 34 27 38 39 37 32 47 16 24 5 7 1 0 1711
ITALY   151 17 17 42 29 32 28 34 26 40 26 26 21 18 23 19 21 23 16 9 19 14 13 30 37 41 45 38 41 49 42 40 68 46 62 42 47 43 48 55 38 19 11 3 0 0 1509
NETHERLANDS   53 11 14 16 16 19 20 10 15 14 9 13 9 13 10 17 11 18 22 19 18 9 12 29 41 43 65 46 41 47 25 27 30 31 47 32 38 36 64 36 17 17 5 0 2 0 1087
BELGIUM   23 5 6 10 11 11 12 5 9 12 9 7 17 10 7 20 8 6 7 5 2 6 10 3 11 13 14 16 21 9 24 24 25 25 27 38 35 43 25 47 32 21 5 6 2 0 684
AUSTRIA   3 0 2 0 5 2 4 2 2 2 1 0 2 2 4 3 2 5 0 6 3 6 2 6 9 7 3 11 12 4 5 3 7 6 5 8 8 10 6 9 5 4 0 0 0 0 186
FINLAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 6 1 5 2 3 8 10 4 11 12 12 12 15 13 14 21 3 2 1 1 1 0 164
SWEDEN   6 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 4 2 0 1 2 1 0 4 1 0 3 2 3 6 0 3 3 3 1 5 3 6 7 3 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 91
IRELAND   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 1 2 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 46
SPAIN   0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 4 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 30
DENMARK   1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 4 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 24
POLAND   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
LUXEMBOURG   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 14
HUNGARY   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
GREECE   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 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 4
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 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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   100 13 19 18 27 26 18 15 12 9 9 19 19 14 21 22 19 25 20 26 12 13 22 28 48 44 71 68 65 63 38 52 69 45 84 67 68 61 80 65 54 50 18 6 4 0 1646
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   738 168 208 238 248 281 289 242 228 258 254 270 301 252 260 279 231 231 235 234 211 212 244 300 327 392 435 408 372 348 362 366 545 420 477 379 418 409 479 553 359 183 57 33 7 1 13742
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 4 2 4 4 4 7 1 1 6 1 5 2 0 3 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   35 3 6 7 8 12 10 13 14 13 4 7 12 8 2 2 8 4 4 1 4 4 3 8 8 7 12 9 10 7 4 4 7 10 9 4 10 12 12 10 6 3 1 0 0 0 337

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


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