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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
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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
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 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   73 100 226 284 346 364 540 715 1276 1495 1507 1693 1758 1779 1794 1901 1537 2202 2647 2663 2941 3554 4390 4832 6551 6524 8745 8305 9340 10130 11032 11784 12261 13385 13366 19392 19924 20641 22296 23907 25336 26913 24262 31456 29874 32425 428466
-- 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   73 100 226 284 346 364 540 715 1276 1495 1507 1693 1758 1779 1794 1901 1537 2202 2647 2663 2941 3554 4390 4832 6551 6524 8745 8305 9340 10130 11032 11784 12261 13385 13366 19392 19924 20641 22296 23907 25336 26913 24262 31456 29874 32425 428466
JAPAN   73 97 225 280 336 349 533 713 1269 1486 1496 1682 1752 1765 1780 1889 1533 2187 2622 2641 2921 3529 4355 4786 6482 6411 8553 8068 8927 9608 10254 10821 11005 11777 11362 15959 15936 16013 17033 18445 19622 20272 17873 22677 20380 21129 348906
KOREA, SOUTH   0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 4 4 5 5 6 18 30 55 96 244 318 488 628 746 932 1160 2089 2257 2275 2430 2519 2643 3025 3016 4271 4697 5785 39759
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 7 4 2 8 13 14 10 8 25 26 40 66 104 108 141 161 229 275 444 574 720 1188 1524 2077 2447 2398 2447 2842 2596 3413 3493 3809 31222
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 15 26 25 27 50 71 82 100 163 221 324 321 352 269 324 305 311 3013
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 4 9 13 12 14 6 8 13 16 19 12 19 22 17 31 67 77 143 158 310 419 728 2134
INDIA   0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 1 2 3 3 4 3 5 7 9 10 13 18 22 34 46 103 122 167 231 319 405 1555
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 1 3 2 1 5 2 2 1 5 11 4 3 8 3 7 5 5 11 9 3 13 19 10 14 18 21 33 44 49 62 56 73 98 106 124 122 124 1083
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 5 1 5 4 1 1 7 4 12 18 30 33 31 39 57 81 119 117 568
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 13 15 12 11 105
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 5 15 7 6 5 7 7 6 80
INDONESIA   0 0 0 3 4 7 0 0 0 0 3 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 38
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 9 20 22 32 11 27 28 28 29 38 14 15 20 20 12 21 12 15 19 22 17 24 50 57 94 94 95 100 144 142 157 247 249 340 322 359 443 526 624 750 732 914 947 1119 8964
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 2 1 22
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 35
FOREIGN CORPORATION   49 66 169 226 278 278 474 619 1138 1340 1364 1556 1657 1671 1681 1788 1451 2091 2523 2542 2819 3432 4237 4675 6320 6285 8403 7952 9015 9784 10635 11399 11812 12853 12839 18604 19206 19851 21397 22814 24097 25638 23039 29978 28426 30877 409348
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 7 9 7 12 13 10 18 28 25 13 24 24 27 32 26 22 8 23 11 18 20 9 5 6 20 15 9 6 8 8 1 482
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   21 33 47 38 43 48 50 62 110 126 113 97 85 91 92 86 64 83 100 93 91 81 108 107 168 156 223 230 197 218 228 233 267 272 257 426 384 424 447 545 599 516 485 556 489 426 9615

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 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   840 287 358 435 565 775 1063 1292 1408 1368 1683 1721 1664 1929 2072 2426 2696 3343 3559 4017 3945 4624 5449 6077 6934 8709 9618 10403 11675 11895 11945 15198 17611 20179 23691 23431 24387 27021 30556 30632 30436 27672 19881 10180 2730 86 428466
-- 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   840 287 358 435 565 775 1063 1292 1408 1368 1683 1721 1664 1929 2072 2426 2696 3343 3559 4017 3945 4624 5449 6077 6934 8709 9618 10403 11675 11895 11945 15198 17611 20179 23691 23431 24387 27021 30556 30632 30436 27672 19881 10180 2730 86 428466
JAPAN   826 274 352 429 563 771 1057 1284 1397 1362 1673 1713 1647 1915 2065 2408 2675 3317 3538 3980 3921 4589 5393 5983 6773 8493 9201 9884 10876 11003 10868 13510 15350 16404 19311 18074 18602 21295 23648 22297 21104 17874 12967 6357 1829 54 348906
KOREA, SOUTH   2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 2 3 4 5 6 6 15 32 43 90 248 325 539 579 678 1010 1347 2365 2604 2838 2583 2843 3262 3735 4502 4830 3211 1686 346 9 39759
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 6 6 3 8 11 15 10 22 11 20 30 46 91 99 134 152 204 242 330 567 778 1238 1517 2206 2713 2137 2719 3491 3693 3838 2836 1582 442 18 31222
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 18 35 31 56 64 102 133 182 262 359 404 400 325 286 199 98 22 0 3013
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 2 3 9 12 12 9 13 9 11 17 21 15 17 22 28 43 118 176 258 269 376 341 288 46 4 2134
INDIA   3 1 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 3 5 5 3 8 8 13 12 21 29 77 126 158 250 294 233 167 88 20 1 1555
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 3 4 3 2 8 8 5 3 8 3 4 6 4 9 6 11 10 15 18 8 22 31 31 58 52 60 83 128 122 125 109 68 35 8 0 1083
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 3 4 6 2 4 1 7 3 19 11 39 34 41 51 99 106 79 43 14 0 568
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 18 15 15 7 2 2 0 105
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 18 7 7 8 4 6 1 1 0 80
INDONESIA   5 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 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 38
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   49 20 20 18 16 17 20 24 27 27 21 7 21 25 16 17 16 22 19 20 16 33 44 58 54 86 112 101 137 175 167 251 371 327 368 469 532 792 910 903 863 798 572 327 71 5 8964
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 22
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 35
FOREIGN CORPORATION   633 242 281 366 487 696 957 1158 1281 1253 1572 1643 1547 1811 1952 2309 2555 3204 3430 3882 3815 4446 5269 5878 6661 8386 9243 10054 11291 11460 11508 14612 16900 19446 22866 22548 23322 25571 28926 29080 28990 26438 18987 9702 2610 80 409348
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2 2 1 2 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 6 11 11 12 11 17 18 22 25 15 8 27 30 32 22 24 16 11 20 20 21 11 4 15 27 8 4 10 7 0 0 0 0 482
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   155 23 52 48 55 61 85 109 99 86 89 68 96 87 93 88 112 106 91 97 92 119 121 131 192 204 230 223 221 242 255 313 317 382 443 409 517 630 709 644 572 427 322 150 49 1 9615

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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