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U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)


EU 27 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 -

EU 27 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.


EU 27 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 336. TRANSPORTATION 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   661 688 997 933 970 932 1073 1029 1251 1176 1299 1419 1383 1337 1064 1125 802 1178 1181 1032 1116 1392 1389 1401 1730 1505 1647 1452 1493 1466 1400 1241 1313 1414 1353 1857 1954 2392 2858 2676 2621 2361 2121 2270 2050 2050 68052
-- 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   661 688 997 933 970 932 1073 1029 1251 1176 1299 1419 1383 1337 1064 1125 802 1178 1181 1032 1116 1392 1389 1401 1730 1505 1647 1452 1493 1466 1400 1241 1313 1414 1353 1857 1954 2392 2858 2676 2621 2361 2121 2270 2050 2050 68052
GERMANY   231 204 336 324 255 268 377 413 489 478 503 600 592 560 463 520 401 559 565 511 573 714 679 698 889 781 857 733 793 787 806 703 723 820 774 1100 1215 1451 1806 1697 1659 1473 1299 1348 1203 1220 35450
UNITED KINGDOM   217 248 354 329 344 346 325 301 353 303 320 316 329 280 223 239 145 231 210 176 186 231 211 188 248 196 218 193 187 183 154 131 175 154 153 173 164 228 274 238 201 182 203 197 189 155 10601
FRANCE   88 133 172 173 228 183 206 182 226 203 246 281 257 254 159 166 120 182 186 144 178 203 223 218 263 231 253 222 235 232 219 195 189 207 180 266 257 311 321 308 289 297 222 296 271 264 10139
SWEDEN   42 41 49 30 54 51 57 48 69 55 84 73 70 101 94 71 40 63 65 63 52 74 89 91 96 81 71 67 75 68 69 61 69 69 62 103 92 125 134 128 133 117 106 114 120 130 3616
ITALY   42 26 38 32 27 26 42 22 39 62 66 54 37 39 50 36 41 52 69 55 39 68 69 90 97 99 104 101 73 99 63 59 56 50 61 77 87 107 113 119 127 112 96 133 107 106 3167
AUSTRIA   16 15 11 8 17 19 25 19 19 29 17 22 35 27 18 25 18 31 37 31 28 31 32 46 43 34 50 44 42 34 24 25 40 29 34 20 41 44 60 55 73 60 55 57 38 44 1522
NETHERLANDS   14 12 16 12 23 22 21 22 17 17 25 30 16 33 19 21 17 27 20 17 24 33 35 25 28 28 34 29 34 20 20 30 18 27 28 29 31 29 51 55 41 45 43 35 29 32 1234
SPAIN   1 3 8 7 6 2 4 4 5 1 5 6 8 10 11 11 5 9 5 3 3 12 11 13 21 17 11 13 10 7 14 7 11 15 12 23 15 24 22 15 20 12 23 19 31 30 525
FINLAND   2 2 1 2 4 4 0 1 2 4 13 6 3 7 8 7 2 4 4 9 12 10 14 9 18 12 16 13 16 14 13 11 16 12 19 19 10 19 22 24 21 21 20 21 15 12 494
BELGIUM   5 2 3 5 5 4 4 7 11 8 8 16 10 16 2 7 4 7 8 3 6 4 9 2 6 8 4 10 8 8 2 7 8 9 11 20 17 25 17 14 22 10 23 24 16 22 447
DENMARK   2 1 4 4 5 1 7 3 8 5 5 5 12 4 3 11 4 4 2 6 4 3 8 7 11 8 12 9 7 9 11 5 4 11 9 13 11 15 19 17 19 13 12 9 17 12 371
HUNGARY   1 1 2 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 4 2 1 6 3 1 1 4 8 4 6 5 6 6 5 7 10 4 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 5 4 3 1 3 2 3 4 1 2 130
IRELAND   0 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 4 1 2 2 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 1 2 2 5 4 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 12 3 2 5 5 4 2 3 101
POLAND   0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 5 4 3 1 5 3 4 2 2 3 6 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 3 5 70
GREECE   0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 39
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 3 2 1 1 2 0 2 3 4 2 0 2 37
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 2 2 3 8 28
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 23
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 18
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 1 0 0 15
SLOVAKIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 9
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
SLOVENIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 1 1 3
ESTONIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 2
LITHUANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2
MALTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
LATVIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 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   29 38 49 52 54 55 62 43 60 64 75 89 65 63 40 44 33 45 58 60 70 79 92 63 92 54 55 65 54 63 69 46 48 67 78 109 146 171 206 165 179 187 163 157 173 162 3891
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 1 2 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3 5 3 1 1 1 1 5 1 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 38
FOREIGN CORPORATION   485 479 714 675 685 707 802 803 971 878 1023 1113 1079 1058 861 898 649 949 948 810 876 1113 1119 1149 1427 1255 1389 1174 1244 1236 1170 1054 1154 1215 1150 1602 1662 2054 2480 2374 2315 2067 1866 2018 1784 1794 56328
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   4 11 17 20 34 8 22 15 9 6 19 6 12 5 7 14 4 22 21 17 26 42 38 32 29 30 28 28 24 25 37 25 15 17 14 5 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 695
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   140 155 213 183 196 161 186 163 210 226 180 210 225 211 156 169 116 161 153 145 143 156 140 157 182 165 175 184 171 142 124 116 96 113 111 141 143 164 171 137 127 106 91 95 93 94 7096

EU 27 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 336. TRANSPORTATION 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   3332 294 767 908 1037 1182 1173 1113 1199 1168 1322 1275 1154 1180 1183 1264 1241 1201 1232 1240 1092 1270 1341 1443 1444 1468 1462 1503 1487 1344 1364 1477 1597 1845 2140 2294 2674 2745 2995 3300 2998 2052 1441 646 163 2 68052
-- 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   3332 294 767 908 1037 1182 1173 1113 1199 1168 1322 1275 1154 1180 1183 1264 1241 1201 1232 1240 1092 1270 1341 1443 1444 1468 1462 1503 1487 1344 1364 1477 1597 1845 2140 2294 2674 2745 2995 3300 2998 2052 1441 646 163 2 68052
GERMANY   1115 81 205 285 342 478 456 470 459 482 572 536 503 528 578 598 592 614 637 643 517 609 689 752 747 716 759 845 811 774 752 839 937 1073 1319 1405 1698 1716 1896 2006 1781 1240 879 409 107 0 35450
UNITED KINGDOM   1172 105 265 321 322 327 355 267 308 263 307 281 246 228 234 247 215 202 221 192 166 170 195 197 203 195 178 197 179 133 151 185 174 170 183 220 253 263 242 278 254 179 101 48 9 0 10601
FRANCE   571 69 180 174 211 208 207 192 225 221 249 236 203 177 168 214 174 187 173 190 190 198 197 222 214 255 233 212 231 208 236 198 208 287 286 274 311 316 300 407 377 297 181 63 9 0 10139
SWEDEN   166 11 42 53 50 64 57 60 77 57 77 86 81 99 56 70 76 61 58 63 70 100 72 74 63 68 73 72 66 68 70 73 80 87 107 117 128 131 153 178 170 88 87 46 11 0 3616
ITALY   138 8 29 18 38 33 34 52 52 63 36 40 39 49 51 51 81 61 39 63 60 80 79 86 91 104 88 77 89 65 64 54 64 82 99 96 101 125 149 137 157 102 92 36 15 0 3167
AUSTRIA   50 6 16 16 22 24 22 25 18 16 25 26 21 33 26 32 42 24 35 21 28 44 32 38 39 37 42 37 36 28 27 41 28 37 28 54 55 52 75 101 74 44 32 6 5 2 1522
NETHERLANDS   54 7 13 25 25 23 14 18 26 19 20 29 21 19 32 19 27 18 31 23 24 26 29 20 35 28 34 20 25 26 22 31 30 28 36 30 41 56 55 73 52 26 12 11 1 0 1234
SPAIN   19 1 4 3 6 4 4 0 8 6 5 7 9 11 11 9 5 5 5 9 12 17 8 16 13 14 11 7 8 12 10 19 15 20 18 19 25 18 25 22 31 27 16 6 5 0 525
FINLAND   7 3 2 3 1 1 0 4 9 10 4 4 9 6 6 3 7 9 12 11 8 5 20 14 14 10 14 19 10 14 13 12 28 17 12 21 15 25 30 30 26 13 11 2 0 0 494
BELGIUM   15 1 5 5 6 8 4 11 6 14 10 11 10 5 8 7 7 3 4 8 6 5 5 6 4 6 10 4 10 3 10 7 9 19 27 21 19 13 26 19 37 13 10 9 1 0 447
DENMARK   11 2 3 1 7 5 5 6 4 8 6 8 4 8 6 5 3 5 3 7 5 6 7 9 9 12 7 6 16 8 3 6 14 11 11 21 16 17 22 22 18 9 6 3 0 0 371
HUNGARY   5 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 3 2 2 7 1 3 5 7 6 5 5 3 4 3 5 13 8 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 2 5 1 5 4 1 4 1 3 0 0 0 130
IRELAND   5 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 2 2 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 5 2 2 2 0 2 5 2 2 5 4 7 4 4 8 4 1 2 2 0 0 101
POLAND   3 0 1 0 0 2 6 2 3 1 4 5 3 2 2 4 6 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 3 4 2 0 0 70
GREECE   1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 3 4 1 0 3 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 39
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 2 0 3 3 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 37
CZECH REPUBLIC   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2 3 3 0 1 1 2 4 6 3 1 0 0 28
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 23
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 18
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 15
SLOVAKIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 9
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
SLOVENIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 1 0 0 0 3
ESTONIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 2
LITHUANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 2
MALTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1
LATVIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 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   168 13 45 52 57 54 49 63 59 78 71 56 52 48 48 47 64 66 86 66 68 78 57 62 62 57 40 62 71 62 54 53 81 108 167 166 193 187 196 230 230 166 116 69 14 0 3891
U.S. GOVERNMENT   3 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   12 0 2 1 1 3 2 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 38
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2398 197 552 668 799 907 916 854 916 911 1050 1006 911 959 937 1033 999 948 967 1008 867 1033 1101 1209 1175 1218 1224 1257 1261 1127 1175 1292 1377 1585 1827 1969 2314 2415 2639 2906 2621 1815 1283 555 145 2 56328
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   54 19 12 12 20 13 12 3 20 7 11 5 8 11 13 20 19 27 25 33 41 25 24 29 31 22 28 24 28 35 19 14 15 8 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 695
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   697 65 156 175 160 205 194 190 203 170 190 207 183 162 185 163 158 160 152 133 115 134 159 143 175 171 169 160 127 120 116 117 123 144 141 157 167 142 160 164 146 70 42 22 4 0 7096

EU 27 Countries
Whole Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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