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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
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.

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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 3344. SEMICONDUCTOR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

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   24 30 73 104 115 119 183 215 366 410 408 429 468 492 504 467 388 525 626 620 734 846 1019 1164 1708 1709 2171 2297 2756 2969 3190 3754 4029 4267 4535 6433 7244 8139 9206 9887 10241 11014 9781 11489 11216 11788 150150
-- 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   24 30 73 104 115 119 183 215 366 410 408 429 468 492 504 467 388 525 626 620 734 846 1019 1164 1708 1709 2171 2297 2756 2969 3190 3754 4029 4267 4535 6433 7244 8139 9206 9887 10241 11014 9781 11489 11216 11788 150150
JAPAN   24 29 73 103 113 117 183 215 365 409 405 423 466 489 502 465 387 522 625 617 732 844 1014 1158 1694 1687 2129 2217 2585 2773 2894 3339 3414 3517 3507 4726 5065 5414 5975 6761 7063 7404 6357 7164 6522 6421 108909
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 4 6 18 48 123 126 193 273 337 367 534 938 1061 1139 1275 1366 1487 1672 1685 2190 2435 2858 20142
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 4 4 8 12 17 24 39 54 81 117 253 348 438 713 1015 1451 1754 1485 1412 1633 1423 1736 1769 1928 17726
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 9 12 12 11 18 37 40 56 96 139 188 176 168 133 163 155 146 1568
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 4 2 1 4 5 4 5 4 5 6 5 14 27 26 47 51 69 124 214 623
INDIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 4 5 3 6 11 11 11 30 18 45 61 86 93 398
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 3 4 3 7 5 6 8 23 14 17 25 21 34 38 35 33 45 334
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 3 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 7 6 18 17 14 24 36 52 80 72 334
PHILIPPINES   0 1 0 0 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 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 2 3 10 11 11 13 9 8 73
THAILAND   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 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 2 0 4 2 3 2 6 4 3 31
INDONESIA   0 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
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 0 0 0 1 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   1 0 3 8 9 9 1 6 6 3 7 8 3 2 4 5 2 5 4 2 7 3 7 7 13 13 25 32 32 52 60 54 70 82 92 123 126 128 172 197 240 253 257 287 309 329 3054
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
FOREIGN CORPORATION   16 26 61 86 95 98 173 195 345 393 387 404 442 476 485 444 377 510 603 599 703 825 982 1123 1658 1659 2101 2202 2671 2861 3064 3641 3893 4117 4378 6194 7021 7898 8896 9516 9815 10598 9393 11058 10778 11329 144589
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 4 6 10 13 3 10 9 8 8 10 8 3 4 4 6 8 3 1 3 10 3 3 2 1 4 1 160
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   7 4 10 10 10 9 9 12 15 14 14 17 23 14 14 16 7 9 18 17 19 13 21 21 35 28 36 55 45 46 56 56 60 64 59 106 93 110 133 163 183 159 129 144 125 128 2332

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 3344. SEMICONDUCTOR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

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   290 89 112 133 166 218 350 348 363 338 468 451 460 510 503 616 674 838 866 890 991 1155 1336 1530 1706 2360 2585 2861 3499 3692 3637 4839 5553 6740 8118 8507 9049 9714 11302 12163 12594 12092 9065 5013 1320 41 150150
-- 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   290 89 112 133 166 218 350 348 363 338 468 451 460 510 503 616 674 838 866 890 991 1155 1336 1530 1706 2360 2585 2861 3499 3692 3637 4839 5553 6740 8118 8507 9049 9714 11302 12163 12594 12092 9065 5013 1320 41 150150
JAPAN   287 87 111 133 166 218 349 347 358 336 463 450 458 505 503 612 673 836 864 886 988 1149 1325 1515 1669 2289 2447 2676 3217 3307 3195 4087 4482 4857 5873 5696 5826 6889 7801 7918 7757 6798 5010 2690 779 23 108909
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 3 16 42 100 126 200 269 275 386 567 1049 1160 1211 1249 1372 1649 1955 2378 2728 2062 1104 225 6 20142
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 3 2 4 5 9 12 25 29 51 61 86 149 330 452 759 963 1482 1787 1193 1528 1868 2040 2106 1579 926 262 11 17726
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 9 16 10 17 25 57 73 79 131 176 200 230 172 163 119 64 11 0 1568
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 1 3 1 3 6 4 7 5 4 7 9 7 21 35 57 54 108 128 133 22 1 623
INDIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 2 8 3 9 7 12 16 23 51 65 72 72 40 5 0 398
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 3 0 4 6 4 6 9 9 23 14 19 21 30 39 48 36 32 16 4 0 334
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 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 6 3 18 17 26 29 60 68 53 36 9 0 334
PHILIPPINES   1 0 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 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 7 8 14 15 11 7 2 1 0 73
THAILAND   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 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 3 0 4 3 3 5 3 4 1 1 0 31
INDONESIA   2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
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 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   17 4 8 2 2 5 5 2 5 8 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 4 5 11 10 9 16 27 40 40 59 63 69 97 123 121 135 147 167 233 251 304 297 274 255 173 32 2 3054
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
FOREIGN CORPORATION   236 81 92 120 152 206 334 333 344 315 443 440 437 491 481 597 650 812 838 864 957 1105 1300 1492 1649 2274 2489 2767 3388 3556 3504 4677 5340 6521 7882 8252 8746 9308 10840 11682 12111 11682 8704 4798 1260 40 144589
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 3 3 2 4 5 8 14 5 3 12 12 10 6 7 4 3 5 5 8 5 3 5 8 3 1 2 6 0 0 0 0 160
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   36 4 9 11 9 7 11 13 12 14 23 8 19 14 13 13 18 19 18 18 21 26 22 26 29 47 46 49 44 68 61 60 84 89 96 104 130 165 208 176 184 131 106 43 28 0 2332

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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