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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 335. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, APPLIANCE AND 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   554 606 954 1011 947 886 1206 1263 1568 1284 1418 1495 1178 1189 1167 1138 879 1105 1138 1194 1106 1249 1428 1280 1618 1551 1635 1407 1395 1261 1185 1266 1176 1347 1359 1839 2039 2208 2300 2356 2351 2323 2018 2181 1901 1872 65831
-- 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   554 606 954 1011 947 886 1206 1263 1568 1284 1418 1495 1178 1189 1167 1138 879 1105 1138 1194 1106 1249 1428 1280 1618 1551 1635 1407 1395 1261 1185 1266 1176 1347 1359 1839 2039 2208 2300 2356 2351 2323 2018 2181 1901 1872 65831
GERMANY   160 182 296 386 317 285 381 426 542 451 540 593 496 457 450 458 342 455 491 510 477 554 596 531 691 670 733 592 598 521 515 510 471 535 551 760 843 980 1060 1078 1116 1195 1003 1013 896 906 27613
FRANCE   83 91 156 165 195 159 212 193 240 224 263 249 190 195 238 219 169 212 227 213 216 239 233 225 313 298 281 246 281 291 241 308 248 274 266 351 416 413 380 400 350 312 269 314 279 253 11590
UNITED KINGDOM   166 184 288 279 238 243 360 368 431 311 305 299 258 255 219 222 183 186 190 199 161 186 247 222 240 230 248 222 214 159 144 154 171 186 182 255 262 232 262 248 251 226 244 234 212 192 10768
ITALY   22 21 35 31 36 31 44 52 77 73 84 81 49 59 39 40 38 51 62 55 49 60 76 81 104 101 102 94 75 85 96 80 60 93 101 132 97 146 145 155 155 154 140 168 133 137 3799
SWEDEN   45 52 73 57 70 69 78 73 97 72 70 101 69 83 90 74 46 64 67 83 59 62 69 71 62 65 75 64 55 47 45 62 45 75 61 76 130 114 140 151 129 91 78 100 78 69 3506
NETHERLANDS   47 40 62 49 55 50 63 70 89 62 79 92 58 72 71 66 50 73 51 68 70 71 94 76 90 89 82 81 84 71 58 57 70 71 58 103 113 107 91 107 107 88 67 94 93 101 3460
AUSTRIA   10 7 6 11 6 15 17 19 28 25 19 12 10 8 11 12 9 11 6 17 18 18 33 21 27 20 24 26 22 18 24 21 23 25 27 25 41 40 33 38 47 61 49 68 42 43 1093
FINLAND   2 0 2 4 3 1 3 5 5 6 4 7 5 10 6 6 3 4 8 7 9 14 16 17 13 16 25 21 22 20 17 26 26 26 35 46 46 53 59 64 60 46 48 61 60 44 981
BELGIUM   13 15 18 9 7 10 15 12 14 15 9 21 12 13 11 8 12 12 5 13 15 14 19 13 22 15 19 18 15 11 13 12 31 31 27 39 39 49 37 30 41 37 31 26 24 23 895
DENMARK   3 9 6 9 7 9 16 19 27 25 26 14 7 12 16 17 13 22 15 17 11 8 23 12 23 11 16 8 13 12 13 13 12 8 14 15 18 26 26 23 33 36 30 23 34 36 786
SPAIN   2 4 7 7 7 6 5 4 3 6 9 12 8 9 6 6 2 2 4 3 5 6 7 5 9 14 8 12 12 10 9 11 6 13 22 14 15 21 28 29 25 33 27 32 20 30 535
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 2 2 3 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 1 4 1 8 5 10 8 2 8 5 6 4 5 8 10 11 14 24 17 15 17 11 24 9 15 264
HUNGARY   1 1 2 3 1 2 4 3 4 4 3 3 2 6 6 2 7 2 3 3 7 8 6 4 5 8 9 9 0 5 2 3 5 1 3 5 2 2 3 4 6 2 5 4 4 3 177
POLAND   0 0 2 0 2 2 3 7 2 1 1 0 3 0 1 2 2 4 4 1 2 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 1 1 64
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 1 4 3 8 5 4 2 5 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 61
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 6 3 1 5 1 2 2 0 2 2 1 1 7 5 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 55
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 2 3 3 3 6 4 5 1 8 8 44
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 1 3 2 5 1 4 1 2 32
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 0 31
GREECE   0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 2 1 29
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 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 1 4 2 4 3 4 26
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 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 8
CYPRUS   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 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
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 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 4
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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
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 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 0 0 1 0 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   95 91 167 163 147 141 170 166 204 165 162 175 136 153 147 132 112 119 111 153 128 171 213 171 203 161 203 177 173 139 127 132 155 188 196 291 313 323 266 235 237 277 254 245 230 235 8352
U.S. GOVERNMENT   2 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 21
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 3 5 4 1 3 1 4 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 38
FOREIGN CORPORATION   361 400 607 641 610 605 844 908 1128 895 1066 1099 860 879 859 863 671 824 873 864 820 915 1021 929 1228 1183 1265 1062 1086 983 948 1012 910 1043 1053 1405 1605 1749 1880 1976 1999 1944 1675 1848 1593 1554 50543
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   4 1 6 16 18 11 27 12 14 13 10 10 19 24 25 15 17 19 18 23 22 30 29 36 31 34 17 24 17 27 17 25 14 16 12 12 6 1 3 4 2 3 4 2 1 2 693
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   90 110 169 186 170 123 163 172 220 209 178 210 162 133 135 128 79 142 134 153 135 133 163 144 156 173 150 141 117 112 93 97 97 100 97 131 114 135 151 141 112 98 85 85 77 81 6184

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 335. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, APPLIANCE AND 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   3364 526 793 966 1031 1106 1215 1178 1210 1277 1321 1289 1186 1131 1178 1188 1250 1245 1158 1203 1135 1240 1382 1419 1398 1450 1482 1330 1343 1294 1264 1411 1606 1742 2102 2132 2444 2580 2914 3173 2593 1794 1033 595 151 9 65831
-- 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   3364 526 793 966 1031 1106 1215 1178 1210 1277 1321 1289 1186 1131 1178 1188 1250 1245 1158 1203 1135 1240 1382 1419 1398 1450 1482 1330 1343 1294 1264 1411 1606 1742 2102 2132 2444 2580 2914 3173 2593 1794 1033 595 151 9 65831
GERMANY   1115 161 272 305 333 384 414 433 431 507 536 532 463 425 456 496 568 518 503 521 471 496 596 627 612 646 623 560 569 516 492 570 656 736 811 933 1151 1204 1363 1555 1260 860 544 291 95 3 27613
FRANCE   546 111 140 180 163 172 182 190 229 233 211 187 239 235 215 236 237 232 225 227 201 221 245 242 267 269 282 284 277 321 290 284 299 335 435 393 397 432 426 410 389 249 146 86 18 2 11590
UNITED KINGDOM   983 139 189 277 319 312 323 302 263 266 272 281 223 224 250 194 191 202 186 197 196 214 228 206 222 203 218 178 171 159 157 202 237 227 273 249 293 263 308 390 258 180 75 54 11 3 10768
ITALY   113 17 30 34 41 44 70 61 76 70 53 71 45 38 47 57 61 57 53 64 53 84 85 95 82 93 102 91 98 80 82 85 104 120 134 114 129 185 214 218 184 133 84 38 9 1 3799
SWEDEN   232 48 64 65 57 69 76 64 74 64 89 82 95 79 66 65 72 81 62 54 62 66 58 65 46 65 64 54 53 65 46 71 77 73 129 160 142 159 141 141 92 62 32 23 2 0 3506
NETHERLANDS   212 31 52 52 59 52 77 58 61 73 73 75 59 71 80 73 67 82 53 69 63 81 79 75 85 68 93 69 79 55 75 76 84 87 122 94 108 105 141 138 120 90 24 17 3 0 3460
AUSTRIA   35 3 12 12 19 17 19 23 19 8 17 6 10 13 13 11 9 13 20 24 23 18 20 26 22 26 21 20 24 24 22 27 32 22 38 30 42 47 68 74 69 52 22 18 3 0 1093
FINLAND   8 2 1 4 3 5 4 3 3 7 8 7 7 5 5 5 8 11 12 10 14 11 16 14 24 13 27 19 20 26 34 21 42 51 45 42 64 62 87 57 65 48 39 22 0 0 981
BELGIUM   59 3 11 12 7 15 10 10 10 13 15 16 12 10 12 15 3 15 15 8 22 17 11 22 7 20 17 8 17 19 24 35 28 43 44 49 32 38 43 34 49 22 14 7 2 0 895
DENMARK   27 4 10 12 11 21 18 22 23 14 16 6 18 16 15 22 15 18 13 8 14 15 15 18 11 16 7 17 18 6 18 7 17 10 26 22 34 24 43 51 33 29 13 9 4 0 786
SPAIN   22 2 7 4 5 4 4 3 7 11 11 7 7 5 4 2 5 3 6 6 6 6 7 10 7 7 15 14 7 12 10 15 17 13 21 16 24 27 30 45 35 35 14 15 2 0 535
IRELAND   0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 0 0 2 2 1 4 0 1 2 3 8 5 3 11 5 9 5 2 5 12 8 11 15 15 13 14 23 24 15 14 13 5 1 0 264
HUNGARY   7 2 0 2 3 2 7 1 4 1 3 8 6 3 5 3 6 2 6 8 3 4 8 5 6 9 4 4 3 2 4 3 2 5 1 4 3 7 4 8 3 4 2 0 0 0 177
POLAND   3 1 0 3 7 1 3 1 2 0 2 1 0 1 3 4 2 5 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 64
ROMANIA   0 1 3 3 4 6 3 3 4 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 61
BULGARIA   0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 4 5 1 3 3 2 2 0 2 2 2 0 5 5 3 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 55
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 1 3 2 5 4 8 6 2 5 6 1 0 44
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 2 0 5 4 2 3 1 1 0 0 32
LUXEMBOURG   1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 31
GREECE   1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 3 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 29
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 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 3 3 2 6 1 2 0 0 26
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 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 8
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
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 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
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 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 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   565 77 131 157 140 122 146 160 135 131 152 177 133 150 144 128 137 175 127 153 170 175 175 161 164 158 195 170 127 134 162 205 235 260 340 294 296 256 280 354 311 227 155 82 21 5 8352
U.S. GOVERNMENT   4 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   14 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 38
FOREIGN CORPORATION   2172 352 519 644 708 835 869 835 880 975 948 958 896 827 876 902 943 893 847 904 821 883 1049 1075 1071 1130 1129 1027 1076 1047 979 1093 1247 1335 1621 1715 2003 2187 2470 2677 2167 1505 840 488 121 4 50543
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   32 13 8 24 15 3 12 11 16 9 16 17 26 20 24 22 14 31 32 17 21 38 26 24 25 22 21 24 23 23 13 12 14 18 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 1 0 1 0 0 693
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   577 82 130 139 166 141 187 171 177 161 203 137 131 133 134 135 154 146 150 129 121 144 132 159 137 138 135 109 117 90 110 101 109 129 137 119 141 134 159 138 110 61 38 24 9 0 6184

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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