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


EU 27 Countries
Fractional 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
Fractional 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

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EU 27 Countries
Fractional 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   6384 6659 9296 10097 10281 9477 12074 11671 14490 14467 13805 15546 14835 15315 13707 14038 10544 13608 14345 12603 12145 14075 15398 15561 18066 16612 19401 17781 18012 17088 16299 15983 16178 16799 17597 22811 23606 25082 27192 27088 26841 24906 21125 24364 21956 21864 757072
-- 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   6384 6659 9296 10097 10281 9477 12074 11671 14490 14467 13805 15546 14835 15315 13707 14038 10544 13608 14345 12603 12145 14075 15398 15561 18066 16612 19401 17781 18012 17088 16299 15983 16178 16799 17597 22811 23606 25082 27192 27088 26841 24906 21125 24364 21956 21864 757072
GERMANY   2338 2418 3338 3981 3766 3442 4524 4439 5525 5728 5588 6156 6058 6212 5563 5874 4545 5782 6304 5469 5478 6323 6718 6856 7884 7352 8352 7614 7680 7309 6893 6731 6600 6818 7008 9095 9337 10235 11260 11280 11444 10779 9011 10005 9051 8914 313077
UNITED KINGDOM   1813 1852 2558 2675 2800 2481 3181 2954 3465 3168 2855 3146 3043 2995 2655 2723 1911 2407 2474 2137 1931 2272 2494 2407 2777 2585 3100 2794 2803 2431 2302 2236 2481 2454 2680 3467 3576 3669 3967 3843 3631 3450 3148 3585 3292 3094 129762
FRANCE   853 1013 1372 1435 1558 1446 1809 1731 2215 2230 2144 2569 2367 2408 2108 2119 1604 2087 2181 1975 1895 2163 2400 2369 2874 2661 3140 2866 3030 3029 2909 2779 2821 2788 2958 3674 3820 3819 4041 4035 3868 3380 2866 3431 3130 3163 117133
ITALY   345 308 414 429 471 477 556 571 726 838 759 807 737 754 756 725 595 806 883 753 625 794 919 995 1183 1076 1297 1259 1209 1271 1285 1215 1078 1200 1239 1584 1492 1714 1709 1751 1722 1584 1296 1480 1302 1357 46346
SWEDEN   386 369 562 536 574 569 675 628 842 777 762 925 914 1002 862 826 573 822 766 685 623 701 857 883 948 777 837 768 716 626 636 706 806 854 867 1225 1401 1577 1741 1675 1521 1290 1123 1243 1061 1060 40577
NETHERLANDS   329 356 519 481 507 476 559 544 695 673 686 731 617 744 708 659 525 655 641 619 626 726 766 722 922 806 1061 960 992 855 800 852 799 797 808 1226 1247 1241 1332 1391 1325 1273 993 1323 1250 1330 38147
BELGIUM   85 130 184 185 176 169 220 233 305 319 283 348 277 334 255 264 185 244 263 224 205 240 240 243 295 302 359 313 324 325 350 352 397 488 515 693 648 694 718 722 622 612 519 625 520 510 16514
AUSTRIA   86 91 143 128 151 160 191 189 251 271 237 294 310 296 243 274 223 267 279 229 267 256 318 357 345 337 402 393 359 371 312 289 337 362 376 387 479 505 589 530 592 540 463 577 457 464 14977
FINLAND   18 9 22 27 34 31 43 46 59 69 88 109 98 109 105 125 77 121 140 125 116 167 200 210 275 232 230 304 331 361 293 312 358 444 452 595 649 618 732 809 865 918 720 950 850 824 14270
DENMARK   70 63 88 101 123 82 144 138 170 173 154 176 146 178 155 168 105 157 130 121 125 150 187 182 204 151 221 158 210 193 197 207 199 241 333 392 487 436 479 426 529 414 358 439 388 391 10339
SPAIN   26 19 49 50 46 48 59 57 74 60 87 89 93 102 96 92 49 65 58 49 50 69 78 97 115 126 131 130 153 133 158 141 148 157 177 248 222 270 269 303 309 264 273 295 268 303 6155
HUNGARY   13 20 20 31 23 21 22 37 38 48 46 62 51 75 80 66 63 87 98 112 106 111 108 131 127 94 129 93 85 88 61 46 50 43 25 50 39 36 60 48 72 48 46 49 47 66 2871
IRELAND   2 0 5 9 8 10 13 12 29 18 28 17 15 18 16 21 8 16 17 19 18 26 30 26 36 37 59 49 53 49 46 48 47 77 71 71 90 121 141 127 163 186 156 174 146 164 2492
LUXEMBOURG   5 4 3 6 7 7 2 1 6 8 6 19 16 15 16 16 21 13 27 26 27 24 37 31 22 29 29 17 27 26 28 22 24 18 22 20 22 40 33 37 35 44 41 33 38 24 974
POLAND   3 1 9 10 12 25 31 33 31 21 25 27 36 26 24 33 29 37 38 26 20 15 11 14 13 8 14 17 8 5 8 8 8 15 11 15 19 13 16 11 17 16 23 29 32 54 897
GREECE   7 1 5 5 13 3 11 8 6 16 14 17 9 11 10 6 6 3 5 9 7 9 7 11 4 8 10 8 13 9 7 16 7 18 12 16 23 18 26 20 22 15 15 20 20 23 529
BULGARIA   0 1 1 0 5 1 7 9 11 10 16 13 24 19 33 32 14 23 27 13 19 22 21 21 32 23 16 27 10 5 5 4 1 1 5 1 2 1 3 3 9 3 3 3 6 16 521
ROMANIA   2 2 2 4 6 21 21 37 35 33 25 35 17 15 18 11 10 14 10 5 2 5 3 2 5 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 4 1 3 4 4 10 3 7 9 7 9 11 12 433
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 1 1 5 14 13 24 32 23 31 41 31 25 34 37 48 360
PORTUGAL   3 2 2 4 1 7 6 3 7 7 2 6 7 2 4 4 0 1 4 6 5 1 4 2 5 5 11 7 8 1 2 6 3 3 8 11 5 11 12 11 12 17 10 16 13 11 278
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 3 6 4 10 7 18 10 16 21 16 18 21 12 21 16 14 213
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 3 2 5 4 1 8 6 5 0 4 5 5 49
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 1 0 2 3 1 0 4 2 1 1 3 9 4 11 42
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 3 3 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 4 3 1 41
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 1 1 0 0 1 4 1 4 3 2 5 2 7 2 34
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 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 2 23
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 3 1 1 0 4 2 2 2 1 1 18

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   642 767 1090 1268 1135 1086 1205 1224 1511 1339 1306 1434 1368 1445 1239 1281 900 1101 1217 1158 1153 1429 1594 1545 1716 1503 1942 1792 1826 1703 1677 1676 1858 1958 2158 3020 3212 3219 3413 3171 3062 3103 2717 3241 3063 3162 83629
U.S. GOVERNMENT   4 5 16 12 20 25 26 6 3 11 10 7 7 3 5 6 3 1 5 0 5 6 3 2 3 2 6 4 1 3 3 3 0 3 5 6 1 5 4 5 3 3 7 6 5 3 272
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   29 32 26 28 20 13 20 25 31 25 11 8 14 9 4 11 0 10 12 6 5 9 9 9 4 6 4 4 7 4 1 2 6 4 6 4 10 5 5 4 6 6 0 3 5 3 465
FOREIGN CORPORATION   4231 4410 6098 6698 6984 6518 8615 8322 10439 10426 10077 11295 10925 11659 10398 10711 8171 10320 11017 9422 9176 10453 11507 11612 13634 12778 14812 13631 13878 13287 12828 12562 12636 13188 13686 17638 18288 19799 21659 21978 22021 20332 17322 19909 17844 17714 580908
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   115 127 173 224 253 112 213 162 123 82 119 159 167 170 185 177 110 174 168 263 223 308 334 341 411 307 302 287 289 320 296 212 152 162 163 153 82 45 40 32 16 25 25 15 25 15 7856
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   1363 1318 1893 1867 1869 1723 1995 1932 2383 2584 2282 2643 2354 2029 1876 1852 1360 2002 1926 1754 1583 1870 1951 2052 2298 2016 2335 2063 2011 1771 1494 1528 1526 1484 1579 1990 2013 2009 2071 1898 1733 1437 1054 1190 1014 967 83942

EU 27 Countries
Fractional 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   35423 5461 8961 10441 10732 11831 12495 12399 12618 12764 13987 14357 13710 13668 14114 14483 14442 14323 13574 13651 13005 14638 15441 16292 17009 17779 18037 17698 16605 16628 17086 19226 22198 22341 26038 26165 29471 31442 33705 33900 25879 17344 9862 4689 1117 43 757072
-- 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   35423 5461 8961 10441 10732 11831 12495 12399 12618 12764 13987 14357 13710 13668 14114 14483 14442 14323 13574 13651 13005 14638 15441 16292 17009 17779 18037 17698 16605 16628 17086 19226 22198 22341 26038 26165 29471 31442 33705 33900 25879 17344 9862 4689 1117 43 757072
GERMANY   13229 1976 3377 3866 3926 4525 4777 5030 4997 5056 5764 5877 5498 5592 6004 6222 6206 6245 6128 6060 5541 6337 6892 7206 7360 7628 7769 7513 6935 7014 6932 7662 8636 8864 10251 10365 12173 12878 13928 14521 11130 7727 4708 2206 530 16 313077
UNITED KINGDOM   9685 1467 2382 2693 2780 2894 2945 2731 2581 2668 2787 2886 2670 2622 2641 2527 2498 2378 2211 2216 2159 2372 2404 2481 2766 2723 2827 2611 2364 2293 2552 2962 3482 3393 3932 4001 4376 4560 4937 4798 3531 2113 1166 564 122 11 129762
FRANCE   5106 865 1328 1583 1663 1763 1896 1855 2022 2115 2214 2225 2151 2129 2103 2272 2228 2305 2080 2134 2084 2257 2365 2581 2725 2948 2933 3055 2997 2951 2978 3192 3766 3565 4089 3983 4394 4752 4674 4724 3598 2397 1329 614 140 5 117133
ITALY   1657 251 388 527 535 590 628 716 671 697 645 741 704 747 765 811 918 857 717 800 726 945 955 1098 1139 1267 1233 1285 1251 1280 1199 1304 1499 1518 1677 1666 1760 1902 2129 2135 1751 1134 681 351 93 3 46346
SWEDEN   1946 267 516 633 578 684 729 652 729 709 864 957 893 856 843 805 825 748 689 672 743 809 789 771 749 724 749 660 698 726 841 1016 1126 1174 1736 1781 1831 1894 1884 1714 1218 718 413 183 33 2 40577
NETHERLANDS   1856 297 424 471 515 540 607 552 647 578 638 655 680 655 704 710 653 717 671 703 645 725 772 798 842 982 1005 919 815 862 918 953 1083 1216 1415 1267 1400 1569 1779 1721 1392 1119 426 193 57 1 38147
BELGIUM   666 110 159 209 222 246 252 236 279 249 284 278 295 241 230 267 239 246 231 214 215 244 262 308 307 301 346 336 349 345 411 530 713 697 689 733 783 783 792 793 669 387 223 114 31 0 16514
AUSTRIA   486 76 152 152 184 196 238 230 226 218 279 268 255 282 274 313 293 262 270 271 283 277 312 335 338 381 367 397 332 312 330 408 454 406 467 536 588 605 688 809 593 427 224 152 29 2 14977
FINLAND   79 14 34 30 43 56 52 72 79 91 87 91 103 114 122 135 141 127 155 156 181 200 218 211 264 262 310 350 354 333 369 475 551 693 757 728 990 1183 1269 1114 807 501 241 111 17 0 14270
DENMARK   353 70 95 104 113 149 147 134 157 148 157 140 171 144 155 158 139 149 136 148 160 155 170 170 190 200 154 232 203 183 238 290 457 360 475 484 558 544 682 617 421 243 117 57 11 1 10339
SPAIN   156 15 39 56 56 63 67 63 67 76 89 79 104 86 76 71 69 51 60 63 66 98 92 118 117 124 146 146 133 166 156 191 209 229 270 255 267 331 438 378 349 251 139 58 22 0 6155
HUNGARY   93 14 12 31 28 28 41 38 53 47 60 59 74 77 84 74 103 123 122 112 105 118 111 102 101 98 87 86 67 44 46 45 51 36 38 53 55 72 70 88 54 34 29 3 5 0 2871
IRELAND   18 7 5 12 9 20 23 22 19 14 22 10 14 22 16 14 15 24 22 24 26 23 33 39 45 58 46 51 50 48 49 98 78 81 108 155 139 185 207 234 156 116 82 34 18 1 2492
LUXEMBOURG   19 3 6 5 2 2 8 5 9 11 22 11 13 17 21 22 28 22 25 30 31 28 20 29 23 21 23 25 29 25 18 32 20 25 32 32 34 41 47 60 45 36 13 4 0 0 974
POLAND   28 13 13 30 28 27 26 18 26 22 27 31 21 29 34 36 46 26 20 14 9 21 5 9 9 17 8 8 9 6 13 15 9 18 14 15 21 21 25 45 32 25 15 11 2 0 897
GREECE   19 6 9 8 8 4 14 9 12 11 14 9 12 5 9 5 4 12 10 5 3 11 4 8 8 11 6 10 9 19 11 17 15 19 17 31 29 20 24 23 23 11 11 3 1 0 529
BULGARIA   3 0 5 5 9 8 9 11 10 17 16 21 30 34 19 24 21 22 20 22 22 9 30 23 17 24 15 9 5 3 1 2 5 2 3 0 2 4 7 8 7 12 3 2 0 0 521
ROMANIA   12 9 15 19 27 28 32 21 32 33 12 14 19 10 13 15 10 4 3 4 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 5 3 0 3 7 8 7 8 13 6 7 9 4 6 2 0 433
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 1 2 9 24 12 23 28 22 33 54 39 41 29 23 15 4 1 360
PORTUGAL   12 1 2 7 5 7 4 4 2 4 6 5 3 5 1 1 6 4 4 1 3 6 4 4 7 6 9 4 2 3 3 7 7 11 10 12 13 11 14 25 17 10 4 2 0 0 278
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 1 6 10 7 7 15 17 18 17 23 16 28 22 20 3 3 0 0 213
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 2 4 2 4 3 4 7 4 7 5 3 4 0 0 0 49
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 1 2 1 0 3 1 2 3 6 1 5 15 1 1 0 0 42
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 2 0 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 4 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 41
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 2 0 0 2 4 4 3 8 4 0 2 3 1 0 0 34
MALTA   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 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 3 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 23
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 1 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 18

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   4179 675 973 1088 1105 1102 1201 1139 1114 1158 1278 1423 1267 1192 1247 1199 1261 1390 1280 1427 1360 1475 1472 1550 1564 1730 1859 1793 1708 1753 1977 2250 2872 2972 3601 3345 3565 3755 3994 4023 3381 2372 1571 772 200 17 83629
U.S. GOVERNMENT   54 9 16 25 14 9 0 4 10 6 7 5 5 3 3 4 2 0 2 7 3 5 0 1 6 3 5 2 2 3 2 6 4 6 4 2 2 5 5 6 6 5 2 2 0 0 272
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   123 7 14 14 16 31 31 17 9 4 11 12 6 4 8 10 12 4 7 10 4 10 6 6 5 4 5 4 2 2 8 6 3 8 6 7 6 5 6 4 4 1 2 1 0 0 465
FOREIGN CORPORATION   23566 3764 6216 7287 7582 8576 9055 8938 9212 9384 10246 10759 10399 10390 10798 10982 10936 10680 10197 10243 9703 10900 11759 12406 12989 13742 13894 13643 12993 13093 13347 15011 17313 17295 20203 20806 23656 25486 27531 27961 21172 14258 7900 3732 880 25 580908
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   707 128 157 170 167 117 99 83 119 129 155 154 166 174 187 191 188 311 252 293 298 332 319 316 290 252 279 329 282 239 172 185 167 136 89 56 38 30 29 26 26 14 4 1 0 0 7856
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6794 878 1585 1857 1848 1996 2109 2218 2154 2083 2290 2004 1867 1905 1871 2097 2043 1938 1836 1671 1637 1916 1885 2013 2155 2048 1995 1927 1618 1538 1580 1768 1839 1924 2135 1949 2204 2161 2140 1880 1290 694 383 181 37 1 83942

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


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