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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 3251. BASIC 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   55 105 124 152 216 202 300 305 341 609 475 624 705 752 593 540 378 538 612 532 505 577 652 613 677 683 893 1004 1003 1064 1174 997 970 894 952 1232 1225 1072 1190 1261 1127 1027 893 1124 1053 1130 33152
-- 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   55 105 124 152 216 202 300 305 341 609 475 624 705 752 593 540 378 538 612 532 505 577 652 613 677 683 893 1004 1003 1064 1174 997 970 894 952 1232 1225 1072 1190 1261 1127 1027 893 1124 1053 1130 33152
JAPAN   52 105 121 151 215 194 293 297 336 598 461 615 702 742 589 531 372 535 606 528 496 571 642 609 665 674 876 970 975 1020 1129 949 899 816 861 1111 1062 903 992 1000 885 774 676 829 765 813 30008
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 4 5 4 1 4 2 6 7 11 22 16 17 37 44 37 50 79 77 91 100 94 72 75 104 102 114 1179
INDIA   0 0 2 1 1 4 6 6 4 7 10 6 2 7 1 6 6 1 2 1 3 1 3 3 3 2 1 11 8 8 6 5 10 10 16 29 33 39 47 93 92 96 76 95 76 90 921
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 2 3 3 1 4 0 1 1 6 8 5 11 12 20 17 21 27 21 36 31 47 42 29 46 34 47 50 62 589
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 7 3 3 9 4 6 4 10 14 9 20 13 20 21 27 16 25 39 30 291
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 5 0 0 4 2 9 8 13 11 13 77
SINGAPORE   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 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 3 3 8 7 6 40
MALAYSIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 3 2 3 17
PHILIPPINES   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 3 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 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 10
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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
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   2 0 3 3 10 6 11 9 7 14 5 21 7 16 8 14 9 15 15 8 4 10 5 6 12 7 11 14 12 14 11 5 13 7 8 24 23 21 35 25 26 19 14 21 27 28 576
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 19
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   46 92 104 136 185 183 269 265 312 559 439 575 679 715 569 504 353 500 564 495 475 548 626 576 640 649 849 940 954 1013 1131 968 941 866 906 1161 1151 1017 1115 1196 1067 981 863 1070 1002 1078 31330
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 4 5 1 6 13 13 15 11 13 7 10 13 8 16 17 21 15 21 10 8 4 10 16 11 7 9 6 10 6 3 0 0 3 0 313
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6 12 17 14 18 13 20 27 18 34 30 28 16 16 15 15 4 10 19 19 13 13 9 18 18 10 16 30 22 17 21 16 12 12 22 35 45 26 33 30 27 24 15 32 22 24 907

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 3251. BASIC 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   525 155 217 238 320 369 418 475 549 466 572 651 527 511 476 519 551 636 562 597 543 603 689 726 795 935 1078 995 1026 1031 999 1044 1203 1102 1244 1101 1168 1386 1541 1600 1262 883 498 274 87 2 33152
-- 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   525 155 217 238 320 369 418 475 549 466 572 651 527 511 476 519 551 636 562 597 543 603 689 726 795 935 1078 995 1026 1031 999 1044 1203 1102 1244 1101 1168 1386 1541 1600 1262 883 498 274 87 2 33152
JAPAN   517 152 212 232 309 361 414 466 539 460 567 640 524 506 469 513 547 634 552 587 537 596 683 713 782 908 1048 956 986 991 933 940 1098 984 1104 915 980 1128 1208 1211 915 603 353 172 59 2 30008
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 3 7 2 3 3 2 5 9 8 16 16 14 25 54 51 53 56 86 83 109 123 140 110 97 53 36 9 0 1179
INDIA   3 0 4 5 9 6 4 3 7 5 4 7 2 3 5 3 1 1 5 0 3 3 2 3 0 6 10 8 7 9 9 16 14 22 34 43 47 66 134 128 139 86 30 27 5 0 921
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 2 4 2 2 0 1 5 4 7 11 11 11 25 24 26 24 29 36 41 47 32 67 48 53 34 29 9 0 589
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 3 7 5 4 6 4 7 6 12 15 12 18 12 28 34 31 31 23 16 8 3 0 291
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 6 1 4 3 6 13 13 9 11 2 0 0 77
SINGAPORE   0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 3 7 4 9 0 0 2 0 40
MALAYSIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 17
PHILIPPINES   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
INDONESIA   1 2 1 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 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 10
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 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
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   13 6 7 7 13 3 9 10 6 19 8 16 5 7 15 13 17 10 4 8 6 4 12 8 12 17 10 15 6 10 11 11 16 15 26 22 27 37 26 26 15 26 18 9 3 0 576
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 19
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   453 137 193 210 283 338 391 437 519 420 545 621 505 487 441 489 499 596 531 568 512 572 657 689 752 879 1023 945 987 994 969 1007 1145 1040 1170 1037 1106 1307 1464 1540 1215 844 471 258 81 2 31330
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 3 4 3 6 11 10 15 11 10 10 14 10 7 15 14 23 16 16 12 9 8 6 12 19 8 7 7 11 4 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 313
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   56 11 17 20 19 28 15 28 25 24 15 10 14 11 10 8 20 20 18 12 11 15 14 12 18 17 29 19 21 18 11 19 30 28 39 35 29 29 47 29 30 14 9 8 2 0 907

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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