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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 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   65 88 198 256 308 322 473 622 1100 1282 1319 1479 1542 1586 1608 1709 1372 1948 2294 2320 2554 3081 3868 4233 5808 5788 7766 7325 8302 8992 9788 10578 11108 12221 12170 17777 18298 18924 20449 21938 23221 24756 22258 29054 27617 30072 389838
-- 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   65 88 198 256 308 322 473 622 1100 1282 1319 1479 1542 1586 1608 1709 1372 1948 2294 2320 2554 3081 3868 4233 5808 5788 7766 7325 8302 8992 9788 10578 11108 12221 12170 17777 18298 18924 20449 21938 23221 24756 22258 29054 27617 30072 389838
JAPAN   65 85 197 253 299 309 467 621 1093 1274 1310 1469 1537 1574 1596 1699 1368 1935 2273 2302 2537 3061 3838 4196 5749 5689 7594 7111 7928 8509 9071 9684 9937 10703 10277 14528 14520 14539 15460 16769 17860 18499 16250 20817 18708 19406 314968
KOREA, SOUTH   0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 4 3 5 5 5 17 27 53 88 227 299 457 591 701 888 1097 1977 2135 2150 2293 2384 2499 2855 2838 4010 4401 5469 37491
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 3 2 7 11 11 8 5 21 21 33 56 90 95 121 146 206 248 410 535 680 1128 1453 1977 2335 2260 2282 2672 2443 3193 3277 3583 29323
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 7 7 2 14 22 23 25 47 67 79 94 155 212 317 308 334 253 309 286 295 2867
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 2 3 4 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 8 11 11 13 5 7 11 14 17 11 17 19 17 28 64 67 131 144 283 393 693 1984
INDIA   0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 3 2 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 5 7 8 9 11 14 19 32 43 96 116 160 223 306 388 1474
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 3 2 1 5 1 2 1 5 10 4 3 7 3 7 5 5 10 9 3 11 18 9 13 16 20 30 41 44 54 52 64 91 97 118 113 110 987
MALAYSIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 5 4 1 1 5 4 11 16 28 31 27 38 55 78 113 110 534
PHILIPPINES   0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 4 6 1 2 3 11 13 12 15 12 11 100
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 1 1 0 1 0 4 1 1 3 5 4 14 6 5 4 7 7 6 74
INDONESIA   0 0 0 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 34
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 1 0 1 1 0 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   3 1 8 18 21 28 8 24 20 21 22 25 10 11 19 16 10 17 12 15 18 19 16 22 44 50 81 79 86 92 129 126 146 227 222 312 292 321 403 491 585 705 693 871 906 1077 8320
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 17
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 34
FOREIGN CORPORATION   44 58 148 202 248 246 420 541 982 1150 1195 1363 1456 1493 1508 1611 1299 1853 2185 2212 2452 2979 3737 4099 5616 5584 7468 7023 8020 8683 9438 10244 10704 11749 11698 17067 17660 18215 19647 20945 22099 23581 21125 27688 26262 28603 372602
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 7 8 7 11 10 8 15 25 23 9 22 22 23 27 22 19 7 19 9 17 16 8 5 6 16 14 8 6 7 7 1 417
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   19 29 41 36 36 41 41 51 97 110 101 88 75 80 80 75 54 72 87 83 74 67 91 89 139 130 195 198 168 193 199 199 236 234 230 380 335 381 391 485 524 461 434 488 440 389 8449

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 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   752 256 316 373 497 658 912 1118 1209 1202 1490 1529 1488 1733 1836 2153 2393 2915 3120 3543 3493 4052 4796 5376 6147 7717 8518 9229 10453 10680 10794 13872 16171 18599 21910 21659 22546 24832 28133 28179 27886 25414 18129 9242 2446 71 389838
-- 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   752 256 316 373 497 658 912 1118 1209 1202 1490 1529 1488 1733 1836 2153 2393 2915 3120 3543 3493 4052 4796 5376 6147 7717 8518 9229 10453 10680 10794 13872 16171 18599 21910 21659 22546 24832 28133 28179 27886 25414 18129 9242 2446 71 389838
JAPAN   741 245 311 368 495 654 907 1110 1200 1196 1481 1522 1473 1721 1829 2138 2374 2894 3102 3513 3472 4023 4747 5296 5999 7524 8133 8756 9713 9853 9787 12294 14031 15018 17723 16569 17050 19438 21618 20328 19083 16205 11684 5684 1616 44 314968
KOREA, SOUTH   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 2 3 3 5 6 5 14 29 42 84 232 307 502 547 642 950 1284 2235 2495 2685 2456 2685 3093 3516 4240 4537 2971 1577 324 8 37491
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 5 3 7 10 11 8 18 9 16 25 37 80 85 121 131 186 216 302 525 729 1184 1452 2110 2579 2000 2542 3295 3483 3611 2658 1459 401 15 29323
SINGAPORE   0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 6 9 7 17 31 30 52 59 98 127 174 251 347 386 380 308 268 188 95 21 0 2867
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   2 1 1 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 8 11 10 8 12 8 9 15 19 14 15 21 26 40 114 162 236 257 349 320 267 41 3 1984
INDIA   3 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 4 5 3 8 7 12 11 17 26 74 119 151 240 281 224 159 81 19 1 1474
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 3 3 3 2 7 7 5 3 6 3 4 6 4 9 6 11 8 14 16 8 20 30 29 52 48 54 73 121 110 114 99 61 33 7 0 987
MALAYSIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 2 4 1 6 2 17 10 36 32 40 48 95 102 73 42 13 0 534
PHILIPPINES   1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 4 4 3 1 8 12 17 15 15 7 2 2 0 100
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 2 0 1 0 2 4 1 2 7 4 16 7 6 7 4 6 1 1 0 74
INDONESIA   3 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 34
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 1 0 1 0 1 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   44 19 16 15 12 15 15 16 19 19 15 6 18 21 12 14 15 22 17 18 15 29 39 52 46 75 98 93 126 155 152 231 336 299 333 431 487 747 867 856 816 759 547 310 66 5 8320
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 17
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 1 3 0 2 3 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 34
FOREIGN CORPORATION   565 217 253 315 432 591 821 1005 1102 1102 1394 1461 1385 1631 1735 2048 2271 2793 3009 3429 3381 3904 4643 5210 5907 7435 8193 8925 10109 10294 10403 13355 15537 17933 21170 20861 21584 23501 26630 26747 26549 24278 17292 8801 2334 65 372602
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2 2 1 2 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 6 10 11 10 9 15 14 19 22 13 7 22 27 28 19 20 13 11 15 17 20 10 3 12 25 6 4 8 7 0 0 0 0 417
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   140 19 42 41 46 51 75 97 86 78 80 60 84 75 79 79 96 91 76 83 78 96 101 106 171 177 198 189 195 216 224 269 279 344 394 363 463 559 627 571 512 369 290 131 46 1 8449

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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