Skip menu navigation Home > Listing of Viewable PTMT Reports


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
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
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.

------------------------------

* 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 3343,3346. OTHER 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   14 14 37 39 55 65 87 124 228 283 285 312 344 356 343 366 303 448 452 502 524 625 806 809 1083 1071 1450 1199 1500 1564 1792 1815 1818 1895 1769 2374 2214 2070 1996 2076 2205 2534 2040 3020 2767 2834 50510
-- 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   14 14 37 39 55 65 87 124 228 283 285 312 344 356 343 366 303 448 452 502 524 625 806 809 1083 1071 1450 1199 1500 1564 1792 1815 1818 1895 1769 2374 2214 2070 1996 2076 2205 2534 2040 3020 2767 2834 50510
JAPAN   14 13 37 39 54 62 87 124 226 282 284 312 344 355 342 365 302 445 452 500 521 623 803 805 1073 1052 1422 1169 1449 1478 1653 1633 1649 1653 1515 2003 1902 1781 1699 1752 1862 2114 1679 2396 2063 2061 44450
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 9 12 19 18 42 75 115 158 159 209 216 310 259 229 227 210 200 229 182 376 414 474 4147
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 4 2 5 8 6 6 8 15 21 8 30 27 47 47 45 50 91 88 100 119 173 215 205 1327
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 3 1 1 6 5 5 10 15 17 42 67 36 41 34 34 325
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 4 5 9 9 16 22 29 105
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 6 1 3 5 2 7 10 9 10 10 14 91
INDIA   0 1 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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 2 7 9 29
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 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 6 1 6 21
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 8
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 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 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
PHILIPPINES   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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   1 1 0 3 5 6 1 7 4 4 2 2 3 0 7 1 5 3 5 2 3 6 2 6 6 6 5 9 7 9 13 16 11 24 21 34 30 46 38 56 66 95 48 56 50 53 775
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   10 8 25 31 41 52 81 111 189 236 262 297 331 339 318 353 285 431 438 486 511 609 789 796 1062 1056 1432 1176 1480 1541 1763 1781 1790 1851 1732 2302 2165 1996 1930 1978 2091 2405 1966 2934 2677 2755 48893
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 14
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   4 6 12 6 10 8 5 7 35 44 21 14 9 16 17 11 13 14 9 14 8 10 13 7 14 7 11 13 13 13 16 18 17 20 17 38 20 27 27 41 46 32 25 30 40 26 825

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 3343,3346. OTHER 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   136 48 67 90 93 143 171 260 255 276 313 314 341 332 394 459 510 563 663 728 723 754 889 1061 1183 1409 1552 1652 1732 1675 1779 2210 2214 2481 2854 2259 2339 2624 2888 2768 2672 2342 1440 656 188 9 50510
-- 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   136 48 67 90 93 143 171 260 255 276 313 314 341 332 394 459 510 563 663 728 723 754 889 1061 1183 1409 1552 1652 1732 1675 1779 2210 2214 2481 2854 2259 2339 2624 2888 2768 2672 2342 1440 656 188 9 50510
JAPAN   134 45 67 90 93 142 170 257 255 276 313 313 340 332 392 458 510 561 659 727 719 750 881 1037 1161 1381 1481 1565 1575 1532 1596 1965 1906 2082 2437 1890 1998 2224 2409 2271 2040 1670 1107 491 142 7 44450
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 6 19 13 22 58 75 134 125 165 214 263 345 346 291 231 262 266 246 372 377 174 110 28 1 4147
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 3 2 4 7 6 5 7 17 16 16 24 33 43 57 57 77 84 111 177 181 224 119 39 11 0 1327
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 2 2 7 3 10 17 25 40 79 37 37 26 19 7 4 0 325
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 10 11 13 19 23 11 6 2 0 105
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 6 1 1 0 0 3 3 5 3 2 5 4 10 17 10 13 5 3 0 0 91
INDIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 5 5 8 2 1 2 1 29
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 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 7 2 3 1 1 0 21
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 8
INDONESIA   0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 5
PHILIPPINES   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 0 0 0 0 0 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   7 4 2 7 3 3 2 5 1 0 4 0 6 1 3 4 4 4 5 3 5 5 6 3 7 4 10 9 18 13 10 17 43 36 39 56 44 77 102 67 60 42 26 7 2 2 775
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   96 40 57 78 84 120 141 220 236 266 295 303 319 321 377 435 495 545 648 711 705 738 876 1050 1165 1388 1529 1630 1694 1647 1752 2174 2147 2411 2782 2178 2249 2507 2738 2662 2578 2279 1390 644 184 7 48893
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   33 4 8 5 5 20 28 36 18 10 13 11 16 10 14 19 11 13 9 13 11 10 6 8 11 15 11 12 18 16 17 19 24 33 32 24 45 39 48 40 34 22 24 5 3 0 825

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


Contact Information -

Questions regarding these reports should be directed to:

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Office of Electronic Information Products - PTMT
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

tel: (571) 272-5600
FAX: (571) 273-0110
e-mail:oeip@uspto.gov

address of PTMT pages at the USPTO Web Site: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/tafp.html
selected PTMT files available for download at : http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/data/


Top

Skip menu navigation Home > Listing of Viewable PTMT Reports