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


Asia 10 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
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
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

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
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 3391. MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

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   1 2 5 6 9 6 8 11 14 13 18 17 34 28 27 36 33 56 84 68 59 94 100 90 142 124 170 169 194 193 216 223 236 222 248 327 364 327 362 358 385 335 281 330 361 348 6734
-- 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   1 2 5 6 9 6 8 11 14 13 18 17 34 28 27 36 33 56 84 68 59 94 100 90 142 124 170 169 194 193 216 223 236 222 248 327 364 327 362 358 385 335 281 330 361 348 6734
JAPAN   0 2 4 6 6 6 8 11 12 13 15 17 34 28 27 34 33 55 81 65 56 90 95 87 133 110 156 155 174 167 182 180 177 179 198 263 276 232 259 232 250 207 172 198 237 240 5164
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 2 7 11 13 10 16 18 26 34 49 36 37 40 60 69 74 88 77 84 70 82 77 65 1055
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 6 2 4 7 4 8 16 14 14 19 27 34 29 28 29 27 19 297
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 4 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 3 4 2 3 9 10 4 2 7 5 66
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   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 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 4 4 2 3 6 3 3 7 9 10 61
INDIA   0 0 1 0 2 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 1 2 0 0 0 4 5 2 2 2 4 0 1 7 2 6 41
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 2 4 3 1 5 2 4 30
THAILAND   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 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 7
PHILIPPINES   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 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 3

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   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 6 5 4 2 3 7 3 6 7 10 13 6 13 11 16 15 9 18 6 12 191
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 1
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 9
FOREIGN CORPORATION   0 2 3 6 4 3 4 6 9 8 8 13 17 18 18 23 28 44 66 52 51 84 84 77 115 92 135 134 145 148 156 158 162 164 177 234 252 237 237 238 265 228 192 223 260 263 4842
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   0 0 3 0 5 3 5 5 5 4 8 3 17 10 10 13 5 12 13 14 7 8 13 11 24 29 29 28 41 42 54 59 70 52 63 82 97 82 109 107 103 91 79 88 94 73 1672

Asia 10 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 3391. MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

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   15 5 10 9 5 9 10 15 13 17 27 28 27 47 37 66 67 88 76 96 73 88 112 134 147 158 200 186 198 211 245 265 276 281 366 328 388 438 443 474 406 314 195 110 33 1 6734
-- 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   15 5 10 9 5 9 10 15 13 17 27 28 27 47 37 66 67 88 76 96 73 88 112 134 147 158 200 186 198 211 245 265 276 281 366 328 388 438 443 474 406 314 195 110 33 1 6734
JAPAN   13 3 9 9 5 9 8 14 11 17 27 28 27 45 36 65 65 82 74 90 72 83 104 123 133 143 186 163 171 180 194 208 215 226 293 253 264 303 306 315 246 168 107 51 16 0 5164
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 4 4 8 13 10 13 17 15 25 45 44 49 34 48 55 79 95 80 93 101 99 59 44 14 1 1055
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 3 6 3 4 10 5 14 13 11 27 26 37 49 30 25 18 8 0 0 297
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 3 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 4 5 6 6 6 9 5 4 3 2 0 66
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 1 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 4 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 2 5 6 8 9 7 4 0 0 61
INDIA   2 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 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 5 2 2 3 2 2 9 5 0 1 1 0 41
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 3 4 4 3 3 1 0 0 0 30
THAILAND   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 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
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 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7
PHILIPPINES   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 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
INDONESIA   0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

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   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 1 2 1 0 4 4 1 5 1 4 4 8 5 7 9 9 10 5 13 15 15 19 22 8 4 2 2 0 191
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 9
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11 3 3 3 4 7 5 9 6 12 16 13 19 30 27 58 49 67 67 83 67 72 93 107 114 122 159 146 144 154 173 184 196 197 272 240 259 295 318 336 271 209 131 64 24 0 4842
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 2 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   4 1 7 6 1 2 4 5 5 3 11 14 7 16 9 7 16 17 9 11 6 16 15 21 31 31 36 33 48 49 68 72 70 74 83 82 111 124 110 119 113 96 59 43 8 1 1672

Asia 10 Countries
Fractional Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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