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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 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   32 38 95 130 159 152 226 283 466 523 523 553 599 614 629 595 496 661 792 797 916 1057 1284 1458 2097 2113 2655 2780 3308 3575 3835 4428 4759 4987 5347 7580 8358 9406 10622 11459 11920 12878 11571 13858 13514 14126 178254
-- 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   32 38 95 130 159 152 226 283 466 523 523 553 599 614 629 595 496 661 792 797 916 1057 1284 1458 2097 2113 2655 2780 3308 3575 3835 4428 4759 4987 5347 7580 8358 9406 10622 11459 11920 12878 11571 13858 13514 14126 178254
JAPAN   32 37 95 129 156 149 226 283 465 522 518 546 596 611 627 591 495 658 790 793 914 1054 1279 1449 2080 2086 2605 2685 3114 3350 3499 3974 4079 4162 4220 5699 6004 6435 7118 8036 8405 8841 7688 8821 8055 7870 131841
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 5 7 20 56 133 143 216 298 372 406 587 1047 1169 1277 1426 1525 1634 1856 1899 2522 2809 3301 22716
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 4 6 8 16 20 29 49 63 92 130 278 378 475 768 1069 1543 1857 1600 1563 1837 1610 2029 2075 2268 19775
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 4 4 1 11 16 13 14 20 42 46 63 104 148 201 189 185 145 188 177 164 1740
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 2 3 2 4 3 1 4 5 6 7 5 6 6 5 17 30 35 57 66 96 152 252 765
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 2 2 1 2 4 6 3 6 13 12 14 39 23 63 81 101 119 501
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 3 0 2 3 4 4 8 7 6 10 26 18 21 28 25 38 46 43 43 56 406
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 4 1 2 2 0 0 4 1 8 8 20 18 18 27 40 58 89 84 384
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 75
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 1 4 2 3 3 6 4 4 37
INDONESIA   0 0 0 1 3 2 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 13
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   2 0 3 9 12 10 1 8 8 5 9 10 3 2 5 6 3 5 4 2 8 4 7 10 18 21 36 45 42 64 75 63 84 105 120 156 159 163 205 238 279 306 312 347 358 389 3721
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 6
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 13
FOREIGN CORPORATION   21 32 78 107 133 127 211 255 439 498 495 518 569 594 605 565 478 641 763 771 877 1029 1239 1407 2023 2040 2560 2656 3195 3442 3683 4292 4594 4796 5152 7289 8086 9106 10256 11012 11416 12373 11100 13324 12991 13578 171416
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 4 2 2 4 6 8 13 14 5 12 11 9 13 13 11 4 8 5 7 11 4 1 4 13 4 4 2 1 5 1 212
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   9 6 14 14 13 11 12 18 19 20 18 24 26 17 18 20 11 13 23 20 24 16 25 27 51 40 48 70 58 55 63 69 72 80 68 123 109 134 156 195 221 195 157 186 160 158 2886

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 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   370 125 136 168 208 281 434 446 470 443 586 580 585 642 647 771 845 1047 1091 1123 1220 1421 1651 1903 2092 2867 3124 3443 4165 4417 4343 5726 6575 7883 9445 9906 10510 11394 13385 14359 14870 14219 10645 6029 1610 54 178254
-- 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   370 125 136 168 208 281 434 446 470 443 586 580 585 642 647 771 845 1047 1091 1123 1220 1421 1651 1903 2092 2867 3124 3443 4165 4417 4343 5726 6575 7883 9445 9906 10510 11394 13385 14359 14870 14219 10645 6029 1610 54 178254
JAPAN   366 122 135 168 208 281 433 445 464 440 580 579 583 635 647 766 843 1044 1088 1119 1216 1413 1635 1886 2050 2784 2961 3234 3838 3986 3847 4888 5390 5829 6994 6811 6994 8260 9445 9545 9369 8185 6014 3323 967 31 131841
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 6 3 17 47 112 139 230 295 305 432 630 1166 1280 1399 1390 1548 1862 2225 2699 3082 2319 1256 259 7 22716
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 3 2 5 6 11 15 30 36 59 72 99 168 361 494 806 1031 1565 1916 1302 1705 2098 2315 2405 1825 1109 316 14 19775
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 4 5 3 10 21 12 21 30 62 84 86 142 186 223 254 190 185 132 71 12 0 1740
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 1 1 2 5 1 4 1 3 6 5 9 6 5 7 9 12 24 46 78 64 137 152 156 28 2 765
INDIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 3 8 3 9 8 14 18 30 63 83 91 92 52 10 0 501
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 4 0 5 7 4 9 10 10 27 17 22 26 35 47 58 42 39 21 5 0 406
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 4 3 1 1 1 3 2 8 5 19 19 28 31 70 78 61 38 11 0 384
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 15 15 11 7 2 1 0 75
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 4 0 4 3 3 6 3 4 1 1 0 37
INDONESIA   2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 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 13
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   21 6 8 2 3 6 8 3 8 9 3 2 6 5 6 4 5 5 7 5 6 15 16 13 24 36 55 53 69 77 81 124 159 153 174 182 206 271 298 368 351 323 297 202 44 2 3721
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 6
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 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
FOREIGN CORPORATION   300 112 111 152 189 264 410 425 445 413 556 567 556 615 618 747 813 1014 1055 1090 1175 1356 1597 1850 2017 2754 2995 3321 4032 4252 4184 5519 6305 7616 9147 9596 10136 10918 12830 13770 14293 13727 10221 5767 1534 52 171416
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 3 4 3 7 6 11 15 6 4 15 14 13 8 10 7 3 10 8 9 6 4 7 9 4 1 4 6 0 0 0 0 212
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   49 6 14 13 12 11 16 18 16 20 26 10 23 19 17 17 23 25 21 22 28 35 32 36 36 63 61 60 52 80 73 73 103 104 117 123 160 196 252 220 222 163 127 60 32 0 2886

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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