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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 3342. COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

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   12 13 19 28 33 30 56 67 115 134 158 154 189 176 184 193 148 189 237 249 266 314 494 523 822 755 1109 983 1004 1123 1200 1445 1580 1813 1686 2645 2608 2526 2583 2740 2823 3094 3090 4688 4373 5017 53690
-- 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   12 13 19 28 33 30 56 67 115 134 158 154 189 176 184 193 148 189 237 249 266 314 494 523 822 755 1109 983 1004 1123 1200 1445 1580 1813 1686 2645 2608 2526 2583 2740 2823 3094 3090 4688 4373 5017 53690
JAPAN   12 12 19 28 31 28 53 67 115 133 158 152 186 174 183 192 147 187 224 242 261 308 483 517 808 732 1065 941 934 1049 1093 1331 1431 1596 1443 2215 2119 2009 2058 2171 2244 2360 2374 3488 3025 3235 43637
KOREA, SOUTH   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 1 3 5 10 11 35 49 71 80 93 149 154 299 352 337 335 344 349 399 399 622 704 1029 5838
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 7 4 2 1 6 4 10 17 30 26 32 20 29 26 50 50 71 109 110 149 155 171 180 252 226 402 469 502 3116
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 3 2 7 5 21 29 61 66 112 321
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 1 1 0 1 2 3 2 10 12 9 7 11 15 33 18 26 21 33 26 30 263
INDIA   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 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 6 13 14 22 42 57 88 256
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 0 3 5 2 1 6 2 8 10 12 12 4 10 16 17 36 21 17 208
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 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 1 2 5 2 1 2 3 31
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 10
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5
INDONESIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
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 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   0 0 2 1 1 3 4 5 2 5 4 2 1 1 1 5 1 3 0 4 2 5 0 2 7 6 14 10 8 7 7 13 12 20 26 33 16 24 33 41 45 63 92 146 127 160 964
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 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 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11 8 13 23 30 21 45 56 106 120 136 144 178 163 172 183 138 176 214 233 250 303 479 507 788 722 1055 932 956 1083 1162 1406 1519 1755 1613 2543 2528 2432 2485 2626 2705 2966 2925 4434 4162 4780 51289
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 3 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1 5 4 4 1 7 6 5 8 9 18 8 10 12 11 5 10 11 22 11 15 5 12 13 27 25 40 37 37 31 31 26 48 37 46 68 62 69 64 73 71 64 72 106 82 76 1406

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 3342. COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

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   88 25 35 47 63 54 101 113 136 142 164 179 161 205 194 206 248 307 356 461 446 515 635 704 812 1045 1142 1235 1409 1487 1450 2045 2555 2919 3643 3736 3812 3934 4339 3727 3366 2800 1856 645 143 3 53690
-- 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   88 25 35 47 63 54 101 113 136 142 164 179 161 205 194 206 248 307 356 461 446 515 635 704 812 1045 1142 1235 1409 1487 1450 2045 2555 2919 3643 3736 3812 3934 4339 3727 3366 2800 1856 645 143 3 53690
JAPAN   86 25 33 45 62 54 100 113 136 141 161 177 159 203 194 200 237 299 351 448 441 509 625 689 771 1011 1049 1159 1283 1381 1308 1809 2240 2397 3031 2914 3027 3122 3341 2662 2193 1753 1212 389 91 2 43637
KOREA, SOUTH   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 5 9 9 49 50 88 69 94 161 213 377 448 588 509 510 541 544 621 576 271 84 10 0 5838
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 3 5 4 3 5 3 4 7 9 31 20 40 21 32 29 34 55 82 115 136 180 198 216 304 377 362 346 307 145 37 0 3116
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 2 5 7 23 51 59 74 47 28 10 0 1 321
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 2 1 0 1 6 5 12 8 14 10 28 34 29 26 30 27 20 6 3 1 0 263
INDIA   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 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 3 18 14 31 42 62 41 24 6 4 0 256
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 3 5 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 4 1 3 5 7 8 14 14 9 15 42 9 23 13 6 6 0 0 208
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 3 0 1 1 3 1 6 4 2 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 31
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 10
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 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 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5
INDONESIA   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 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
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 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   5 2 3 2 2 3 3 1 6 1 2 0 2 5 0 2 2 4 3 4 0 4 3 8 7 14 9 9 12 11 11 29 30 29 26 47 69 94 133 102 94 99 47 18 7 1 964
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 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 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
FOREIGN CORPORATION   69 22 26 37 53 50 90 105 119 130 154 170 145 191 185 187 228 291 337 440 437 493 613 677 772 997 1084 1191 1362 1444 1404 1974 2469 2821 3544 3632 3653 3731 4093 3520 3203 2647 1760 603 133 2 51289
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   15 2 5 7 8 1 8 7 11 11 8 9 13 9 10 15 17 13 13 16 8 16 19 17 33 33 46 34 35 32 34 42 55 65 72 56 90 108 111 103 68 53 49 23 3 0 1406

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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