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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
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
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. ALL INDUSTRIES

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   429 567 943 1150 1469 1521 2188 2662 4088 5210 5019 5972 6424 6637 6313 7003 5333 7237 8542 8286 8927 11286 13016 13535 17073 16829 21068 20628 22494 23642 24468 24978 24807 26729 27442 37683 38926 39988 43117 45377 46206 47364 41359 51122 48020 50334 873411
-- 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   429 567 943 1150 1469 1521 2188 2662 4088 5210 5019 5972 6424 6637 6313 7003 5333 7237 8542 8286 8927 11286 13016 13535 17073 16829 21068 20628 22494 23642 24468 24978 24807 26729 27442 37683 38926 39988 43117 45377 46206 47364 41359 51122 48020 50334 873411
JAPAN   407 544 919 1122 1424 1464 2152 2625 4029 5151 4941 5894 6352 6542 6217 6912 5252 7124 8389 8149 8793 11110 12746 13209 16557 16158 20169 19525 21025 21925 22293 22384 21764 23053 23179 30840 31104 31295 33223 34858 35515 35348 30341 36807 33354 33682 725866
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24 33 53 29 39 66 80 88 66 99 174 210 344 457 591 732 906 1001 1189 1443 1620 1897 2057 3100 3693 4667 5371 5431 5298 5938 5118 6361 6128 6339 70643
KOREA, SOUTH   0 3 2 2 0 2 0 3 2 7 5 7 13 7 6 13 5 8 17 14 26 30 41 46 84 96 159 225 405 538 779 943 1161 1493 1891 3259 3562 3314 3538 3786 3944 4428 4352 5908 6295 7548 57967
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   4 3 4 2 9 5 5 6 15 8 10 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 7 23 47 52 47 50 41 53 48 62 46 62 72 90 119 195 289 297 404 402 661 772 1225 5162
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 4 7 6 1 3 3 2 0 3 4 3 5 4 9 3 11 6 18 12 15 32 38 51 53 88 94 120 144 218 296 410 427 449 346 412 393 399 4097
INDIA   4 7 8 5 10 15 18 16 10 19 21 17 13 17 13 15 14 4 6 4 14 12 10 18 12 14 14 23 22 24 30 27 37 35 47 85 112 131 178 249 342 363 384 481 546 634 4080
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   6 5 6 8 12 7 7 8 20 7 15 9 10 21 9 21 14 27 33 18 14 24 25 31 34 41 48 52 50 60 60 57 86 88 81 160 155 179 237 233 276 311 283 308 338 311 3805
MALAYSIA   1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 1 2 0 1 1 2 2 3 4 2 2 2 3 12 5 13 10 7 12 17 23 30 42 39 55 50 80 88 113 158 152 947
PHILIPPINES   7 5 2 4 1 2 4 2 5 11 13 6 7 9 8 8 5 2 7 7 5 1 5 1 5 4 7 4 5 7 4 1 4 4 4 8 11 2 12 14 22 21 18 35 20 16 355
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 1 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 1 5 5 8 11 5 13 20 15 24 44 25 18 16 31 11 22 303
INDONESIA   0 0 0 5 12 25 0 1 2 2 6 8 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 3 0 2 4 3 2 8 4 9 4 1 5 3 5 6 4 7 9 4 10 3 5 5 178
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 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 8

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   15 13 30 44 76 95 45 78 91 96 84 137 74 78 68 94 74 97 91 73 68 80 87 101 145 157 241 245 302 256 306 334 360 449 493 648 670 730 879 940 990 1118 1022 1276 1269 1429 16048
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 7 4 7 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 3 4 3 3 0 1 2 2 3 2 0 2 2 1 0 2 2 1 0 4 3 4 3 86
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 1 0 2 6 6 2 2 5 4 0 2 0 1 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 2 6 2 4 5 2 6 5 6 3 6 4 7 4 6 10 12 6 3 6 9 4 6 6 4 184
FOREIGN CORPORATION   249 378 628 838 1076 1073 1761 2180 3471 4501 4363 5231 5804 6001 5706 6381 4843 6596 7804 7651 8346 10605 12182 12686 15969 15627 19600 19022 20746 21918 22619 23034 22742 24518 25196 34555 35826 36593 39377 41436 42293 43485 38091 47451 44680 47169 802301
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 1 0 7 2 9 13 3 0 1 2 8 18 6 22 41 42 58 56 64 63 75 62 67 82 80 81 100 82 67 37 49 42 58 60 29 36 25 49 44 21 12 12 14 4 1604
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   163 175 282 265 304 345 369 387 511 605 564 597 537 538 529 505 373 501 587 503 445 533 660 681 884 955 1142 1274 1340 1378 1471 1564 1650 1713 1689 2412 2390 2617 2828 2947 2872 2731 2226 2374 2047 1725 53188

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. ALL INDUSTRIES

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   3589 999 1399 1743 2311 2883 3805 4421 4834 4646 5930 6411 6176 6676 7172 7602 8559 9731 10150 11520 10998 12682 14732 15936 17740 20781 22969 23727 24982 25323 25385 30104 33804 37858 43859 42425 44619 49521 55349 55356 52711 46128 33341 17364 4989 171 873411
-- 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   3589 999 1399 1743 2311 2883 3805 4421 4834 4646 5930 6411 6176 6676 7172 7602 8559 9731 10150 11520 10998 12682 14732 15936 17740 20781 22969 23727 24982 25323 25385 30104 33804 37858 43859 42425 44619 49521 55349 55356 52711 46128 33341 17364 4989 171 873411
JAPAN   3479 960 1358 1708 2279 2842 3752 4370 4759 4589 5867 6327 6074 6579 7078 7480 8418 9561 10020 11319 10795 12430 14334 15372 16964 19875 21663 22126 22868 22920 22515 26230 29058 30955 35832 33211 34155 38775 42699 40431 36884 30658 22170 10876 3161 90 725866
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 11 30 44 45 36 68 85 100 66 119 117 159 253 352 517 557 725 934 1116 1260 1574 1922 2257 2941 3547 4522 5694 5050 5917 6829 7106 6897 5284 3356 1097 52 70643
KOREA, SOUTH   7 1 1 1 2 1 3 4 6 7 7 11 9 8 9 8 19 17 22 37 39 36 69 86 141 207 410 510 795 910 1039 1617 2125 3486 3858 3949 3691 4188 4754 5798 6510 6514 4399 2167 475 14 57967
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   15 3 6 7 7 7 8 8 12 13 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 8 13 51 42 51 45 43 53 50 73 52 64 70 100 125 184 326 476 596 607 724 629 532 138 12 5162
SINGAPORE   0 2 0 2 1 3 4 1 5 6 2 1 4 3 1 1 5 3 4 5 7 5 10 7 10 14 21 19 32 60 55 99 101 138 173 234 361 459 519 544 412 360 245 125 32 2 4097
INDIA   27 9 13 12 15 14 14 12 17 12 15 19 11 17 11 8 5 5 16 10 10 14 14 18 10 20 27 25 24 35 34 42 53 83 121 138 205 330 468 629 614 465 262 143 33 1 4080
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   26 4 10 9 3 12 13 11 9 8 13 13 18 13 28 28 21 28 14 24 22 23 26 40 43 46 62 50 64 65 69 110 102 139 156 189 236 257 365 377 392 316 217 101 33 0 3805
MALAYSIA   5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 4 1 2 0 0 3 2 2 0 4 3 1 4 2 9 5 14 8 11 13 20 24 42 25 55 57 86 85 139 144 99 55 16 0 947
PHILIPPINES   18 2 0 3 2 4 7 11 11 8 3 6 10 10 4 5 4 8 3 3 3 1 5 6 3 4 5 7 5 3 3 5 5 7 9 9 7 19 31 30 22 28 10 3 3 0 355
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 3 0 4 1 3 2 0 5 4 2 7 10 14 10 18 16 22 53 30 23 20 15 21 5 1 0 303
INDONESIA   12 18 11 1 1 0 2 2 12 1 1 1 1 0 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 3 7 10 4 3 5 5 2 7 8 7 3 13 4 6 5 1 0 0 178
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 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 8

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   143 56 57 59 60 59 74 77 97 104 87 67 69 86 89 100 85 87 68 80 82 94 138 161 162 233 309 272 282 387 381 496 632 643 723 824 949 1235 1353 1352 1289 1112 772 456 100 7 16048
U.S. GOVERNMENT   3 0 0 1 2 5 5 2 5 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 5 2 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 0 3 2 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 86
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   5 2 7 2 4 5 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 5 4 2 4 3 1 5 2 7 4 7 3 7 6 2 8 6 11 9 8 4 7 8 3 7 7 1 0 0 184
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2476 801 1025 1338 1874 2422 3275 3796 4238 4037 5331 5820 5589 6011 6532 6937 7796 9017 9535 10838 10329 11899 13798 14910 16453 19353 21312 22035 23198 23374 23270 27668 31184 34991 40613 39129 40715 45126 50684 50708 48455 42807 30938 15934 4575 155 802301
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   4 5 3 4 11 5 3 0 0 5 9 15 8 18 41 44 52 56 72 68 60 71 52 70 82 84 95 76 76 47 40 50 64 60 41 23 44 67 28 26 14 9 0 1 1 0 1604
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   958 135 307 339 360 387 447 543 493 495 499 506 509 558 509 519 625 566 471 529 519 611 738 788 1039 1103 1248 1335 1419 1506 1687 1885 1915 2157 2468 2439 2903 3086 3275 3261 2944 2192 1624 971 311 9 53188

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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