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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 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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   130 97 133 130 156 161 182 204 267 251 223 255 233 301 199 253 155 247 293 246 205 259 257 275 290 266 329 295 255 271 258 246 284 279 274 405 447 391 430 372 362 338 262 241 224 228 11859
-- 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   130 97 133 130 156 161 182 204 267 251 223 255 233 301 199 253 155 247 293 246 205 259 257 275 290 266 329 295 255 271 258 246 284 279 274 405 447 391 430 372 362 338 262 241 224 228 11859
GERMANY   49 41 38 58 59 61 76 88 110 109 85 107 108 144 89 124 81 121 151 118 100 128 120 125 131 121 128 133 98 125 116 95 131 124 122 148 166 132 154 139 152 133 86 87 82 75 4968
UNITED KINGDOM   36 25 41 31 57 55 54 58 81 64 53 63 51 69 42 52 30 42 53 44 37 51 43 42 45 39 49 38 40 35 45 38 34 34 45 55 62 51 64 43 53 46 34 39 32 31 2126
FRANCE   19 14 22 19 8 19 22 23 33 37 32 46 37 40 28 31 22 37 42 41 30 29 34 38 38 48 61 48 47 54 41 38 39 40 30 64 69 64 61 52 47 39 35 34 30 24 1706
ITALY   10 7 10 8 8 8 10 8 11 12 13 12 7 15 15 8 5 15 15 12 10 12 12 15 23 18 23 25 17 11 15 24 14 20 23 48 35 37 37 30 21 40 35 26 19 33 832
SWEDEN   8 3 6 3 4 3 2 7 12 9 11 8 16 10 7 12 2 9 16 8 8 9 17 19 19 10 11 10 13 14 6 11 23 12 12 31 32 39 50 43 51 30 38 23 19 23 729
NETHERLANDS   4 2 8 5 2 4 10 3 6 4 6 8 5 7 6 5 3 5 4 10 4 8 14 4 10 10 17 15 13 9 18 8 7 14 6 6 12 12 14 15 15 16 12 6 10 9 391
BELGIUM   1 3 5 2 5 5 2 1 3 3 6 2 2 7 5 5 3 5 3 4 5 13 4 8 6 5 13 10 8 5 5 15 9 12 12 14 18 15 25 21 7 13 15 12 9 10 361
AUSTRIA   1 0 1 2 2 2 0 5 6 5 7 0 1 3 2 3 3 2 1 2 3 3 4 6 9 3 11 2 4 6 7 5 10 10 10 13 12 16 9 9 7 7 0 2 9 9 234
DENMARK   1 0 0 1 5 1 2 8 4 2 2 3 1 0 2 6 2 8 4 1 3 2 1 5 1 3 6 4 6 3 3 3 4 8 5 6 27 8 10 5 3 5 2 4 1 4 185
FINLAND   0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 3 3 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 4 6 3 3 3 6 7 3 1 3 4 3 4 4 6 5 1 6 3 4 2 2 3 2 115
SPAIN   1 2 2 1 4 1 1 1 0 2 3 1 4 4 1 4 0 2 1 1 3 0 2 3 1 5 6 3 1 4 0 2 5 0 3 10 4 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 5 3 114
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 29
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 21
GREECE   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 18
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 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 8
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 1 4
BULGARIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
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 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
POLAND   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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ROMANIA   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 0 0 1
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 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   5 8 7 12 10 12 15 11 11 10 16 20 12 17 10 19 9 12 14 26 26 33 25 25 17 15 28 18 22 24 26 25 28 29 37 53 59 54 50 55 73 51 37 33 32 46 1177
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
FOREIGN CORPORATION   98 57 86 88 101 111 137 148 201 195 152 188 173 250 147 195 116 186 232 165 144 182 182 205 205 203 245 233 199 208 194 181 224 210 198 292 323 272 324 277 251 256 201 189 156 157 8737
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 2 4 1 3 4 1 3 2 3 0 4 4 4 3 3 1 2 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 61
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   27 32 38 29 45 37 30 44 54 44 54 46 47 34 42 36 30 46 45 50 34 41 46 44 65 46 53 43 30 34 34 37 29 39 37 58 62 65 55 39 36 31 23 19 36 25 1871

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 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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   550 108 152 181 162 186 212 230 229 199 249 235 220 212 220 254 274 260 218 230 238 253 267 274 299 340 285 268 238 243 272 325 363 411 474 409 451 441 449 399 285 176 81 25 12 0 11859
-- 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   550 108 152 181 162 186 212 230 229 199 249 235 220 212 220 254 274 260 218 230 238 253 267 274 299 340 285 268 238 243 272 325 363 411 474 409 451 441 449 399 285 176 81 25 12 0 11859
GERMANY   208 39 62 80 65 85 83 102 83 90 119 103 106 94 111 126 133 122 109 114 115 119 113 123 130 144 127 103 108 102 121 152 145 159 175 138 170 191 168 142 97 58 22 8 4 0 4968
UNITED KINGDOM   155 40 54 55 43 47 68 49 60 52 58 47 48 47 43 43 50 48 38 39 39 48 43 39 38 44 45 47 35 38 42 36 54 50 57 63 56 71 61 46 47 25 12 4 2 0 2126
FRANCE   79 11 12 20 25 14 31 37 40 28 39 31 32 30 32 34 39 42 33 25 27 36 38 52 49 59 45 52 45 42 36 43 48 61 79 56 69 53 56 51 33 28 9 3 2 0 1706
ITALY   39 3 9 8 8 7 7 15 11 10 7 19 8 10 8 13 18 13 7 9 13 15 17 16 26 25 23 12 19 14 13 22 31 44 36 40 31 39 43 52 35 20 13 3 1 0 832
SWEDEN   20 4 3 4 4 10 10 6 10 5 9 15 8 10 4 8 22 10 6 13 13 13 18 12 11 13 11 13 6 15 17 18 24 34 48 42 53 33 59 47 24 13 10 1 0 0 729
NETHERLANDS   22 1 3 1 8 7 5 1 8 6 6 4 6 6 4 7 2 9 9 8 10 7 9 6 15 19 12 12 13 7 10 12 9 9 15 12 18 14 24 10 17 6 2 0 0 0 391
BELGIUM   11 2 4 5 1 3 0 5 5 2 2 8 3 4 3 8 2 4 8 9 8 3 8 7 8 13 8 8 5 7 11 12 16 15 19 19 20 17 20 23 16 7 2 0 0 0 361
AUSTRIA   6 1 0 1 3 5 3 5 6 1 1 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 5 5 6 7 7 5 3 6 3 9 7 11 13 13 13 13 12 6 4 13 4 6 4 2 2 0 234
DENMARK   4 6 1 3 3 3 3 2 2 0 3 0 2 7 2 7 5 3 0 2 2 3 4 1 4 9 3 5 0 3 6 7 11 6 17 14 9 4 3 6 4 1 3 2 0 0 185
FINLAND   0 0 2 0 1 4 0 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 6 3 1 4 6 3 4 6 6 1 2 4 5 4 5 5 5 3 6 5 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 115
SPAIN   6 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 4 3 1 3 2 0 2 3 0 2 2 2 3 7 4 2 2 1 1 2 5 3 9 5 2 4 4 3 2 3 2 3 2 0 0 114
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 3 3 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 29
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 21
GREECE   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18
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 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 8
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
BULGARIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
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 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
POLAND   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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
ROMANIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 1 0 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   38 9 6 11 13 6 11 8 13 12 24 12 10 14 19 10 14 29 33 28 25 19 19 19 15 25 19 23 25 22 29 41 43 46 72 63 47 80 68 53 45 29 22 4 4 0 1177
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
FOREIGN CORPORATION   374 76 116 130 109 141 160 170 168 156 176 183 175 161 161 189 212 170 149 164 169 196 187 204 229 261 234 203 178 184 211 237 273 313 334 285 341 313 333 304 204 128 49 19 8 0 8737
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 6 1 3 0 4 2 1 4 1 3 6 4 0 5 0 3 1 3 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 61
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   134 23 30 39 40 39 41 49 47 30 48 40 35 35 38 52 47 55 35 35 44 34 59 50 51 52 29 35 31 37 27 47 44 50 65 60 62 46 48 42 35 19 10 2 0 0 1871

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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