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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 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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   452 535 720 731 745 788 992 1055 1396 1200 1219 1362 1207 1308 1172 1228 1031 1271 1409 1289 1162 1365 1557 1596 2065 1810 2268 1940 2051 1899 1759 1897 1882 1957 1999 2554 2462 2774 3107 3308 3685 3375 3063 3423 3347 3311 82726
-- 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   452 535 720 731 745 788 992 1055 1396 1200 1219 1362 1207 1308 1172 1228 1031 1271 1409 1289 1162 1365 1557 1596 2065 1810 2268 1940 2051 1899 1759 1897 1882 1957 1999 2554 2462 2774 3107 3308 3685 3375 3063 3423 3347 3311 82726
GERMANY   145 159 226 260 233 239 292 318 443 405 456 480 493 508 462 473 447 566 661 555 553 641 713 662 879 779 978 873 908 823 745 781 769 776 788 1058 1044 1201 1423 1526 1822 1671 1492 1635 1609 1578 35548
UNITED KINGDOM   168 188 219 211 238 223 301 324 357 292 281 321 256 269 240 295 206 211 250 259 189 240 260 312 349 340 448 365 339 322 282 326 320 327 364 418 388 425 495 500 520 493 459 487 468 388 14933
FRANCE   65 87 129 113 124 153 201 188 255 207 215 247 195 217 181 188 162 201 191 204 182 209 257 260 375 287 414 315 366 348 329 322 332 316 323 415 353 402 393 407 430 372 381 412 399 456 12578
SWEDEN   24 24 39 39 45 50 63 53 84 78 60 92 82 96 92 75 63 92 60 76 53 81 82 81 121 95 112 67 73 73 64 92 131 117 111 144 150 181 198 208 188 182 180 196 182 164 4613
NETHERLANDS   25 39 44 37 28 37 49 43 73 49 48 61 38 60 48 59 47 56 61 57 48 57 85 70 104 83 99 92 126 88 72 107 102 114 103 162 151 170 173 189 169 172 129 165 172 227 4188
ITALY   11 5 24 11 27 24 24 40 51 40 46 41 43 52 53 44 26 53 63 60 48 46 56 71 79 86 82 77 76 88 95 101 68 87 85 104 89 93 136 147 166 143 118 142 145 139 3305
BELGIUM   6 16 18 34 18 24 27 30 70 53 49 46 30 38 33 31 20 25 34 14 24 23 21 17 20 30 24 30 33 32 35 38 37 61 67 73 85 80 65 84 74 53 50 65 88 72 1897
FINLAND   0 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 10 5 6 16 9 7 6 10 12 10 25 12 10 19 19 28 55 32 28 37 50 46 41 54 44 63 60 71 67 70 75 87 110 87 75 78 86 74 1602
AUSTRIA   0 8 7 12 11 12 10 22 21 28 20 25 25 18 18 12 15 16 22 20 22 21 22 29 25 32 39 30 29 40 47 29 34 31 33 33 38 40 42 51 66 58 56 75 65 66 1375
DENMARK   5 4 7 6 10 13 14 14 15 20 15 13 16 25 17 18 19 19 14 17 11 13 21 27 29 20 20 22 23 16 28 29 22 24 34 37 62 58 57 54 79 80 53 89 59 49 1297
SPAIN   1 2 2 2 2 0 0 3 2 4 4 5 3 5 3 2 2 3 5 0 3 1 2 3 3 6 3 10 10 8 10 11 9 20 11 16 6 20 14 17 14 13 23 17 22 31 353
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 1 4 0 1 3 7 4 9 4 6 5 4 2 2 8 9 8 11 19 10 16 21 23 20 27 24 23 288
HUNGARY   1 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 3 6 11 6 8 11 6 9 6 8 21 15 7 8 10 6 3 1 1 4 1 3 4 7 1 9 4 5 5 4 4 5 7 256
POLAND   0 0 0 2 1 1 3 8 4 9 6 5 2 0 4 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 5 2 2 1 3 1 0 1 1 1 5 0 2 1 2 0 1 2 4 2 5 6 9 117
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 3 4 0 1 5 3 4 4 3 0 3 0 0 2 5 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 4 4 7 7 0 1 2 77
GREECE   1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 3 4 1 4 3 3 3 3 6 3 4 66
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 3 4 5 3 0 2 3 1 0 1 5 3 2 1 3 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 52
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 3 5 1 1 2 3 2 2 0 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 3 47
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 2 0 3 4 4 2 3 4 1 8 5 6 43
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 0 2 2 0 1 2 3 26
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 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 1 7 23
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 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 5 1 1 1 15
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 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 0 0 1 2 1 2 15
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 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 5
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 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2

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   45 77 103 120 105 87 118 119 194 124 137 134 132 152 120 146 95 115 140 155 114 133 173 168 217 187 231 216 241 202 200 230 227 232 271 321 336 354 411 356 376 379 347 382 390 386 9498
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 4 5 4 3 2 2 1 3 6 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 62
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 2 1 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 3 3 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 43
FOREIGN CORPORATION   271 336 471 451 475 540 697 729 985 845 873 942 860 961 868 900 780 939 1081 905 851 990 1102 1151 1497 1367 1682 1436 1513 1435 1316 1428 1413 1524 1493 1928 1879 2199 2417 2689 3068 2786 2567 2883 2789 2783 63095
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   25 19 23 46 38 23 35 44 30 18 35 37 33 27 29 33 24 20 17 54 45 51 62 64 101 50 75 56 75 66 70 40 39 40 38 43 26 10 8 9 6 9 6 6 12 4 1621
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   111 103 117 108 122 132 139 158 183 209 167 242 176 166 152 149 132 195 168 175 150 187 219 213 250 206 277 229 222 195 172 198 201 161 195 259 219 211 270 253 232 199 143 152 155 135 8407

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 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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   2737 504 730 865 849 1040 1077 1045 1086 1083 1158 1220 1179 1233 1380 1417 1404 1535 1358 1453 1329 1580 1640 1817 1879 1933 2025 2036 1896 1828 1896 2299 2423 2483 2872 3075 3409 3806 4249 4662 3723 2720 1658 931 199 5 82726
-- 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   2737 504 730 865 849 1040 1077 1045 1086 1083 1158 1220 1179 1233 1380 1417 1404 1535 1358 1453 1329 1580 1640 1817 1879 1933 2025 2036 1896 1828 1896 2299 2423 2483 2872 3075 3409 3806 4249 4662 3723 2720 1658 931 199 5 82726
GERMANY   892 154 225 262 246 318 336 384 385 377 454 486 455 492 579 639 617 684 634 661 580 685 708 794 807 863 900 887 789 788 724 901 975 1029 1243 1351 1533 1775 1999 2280 1770 1415 874 487 107 4 35548
UNITED KINGDOM   872 156 230 225 258 302 273 266 250 256 259 248 257 269 278 254 275 283 232 254 233 284 305 320 382 361 374 321 302 305 334 397 412 422 472 472 520 619 635 643 510 294 204 101 14 0 14933
FRANCE   443 96 122 180 148 189 206 173 196 210 194 185 182 192 220 220 206 263 205 241 220 272 270 297 322 323 349 382 356 319 322 378 433 370 381 432 449 444 479 571 502 308 190 102 36 0 12578
SWEDEN   140 21 48 58 52 65 57 60 67 65 72 102 87 78 104 73 77 74 73 80 77 79 97 94 85 68 70 80 71 86 137 147 123 132 185 198 220 234 267 268 192 137 68 40 5 0 4613
NETHERLANDS   159 25 33 43 35 42 59 35 45 43 44 52 60 45 67 67 56 67 61 63 60 74 79 105 67 89 109 108 80 98 118 130 120 155 179 172 194 205 238 211 194 160 84 46 11 1 4188
ITALY   59 11 24 31 29 38 29 45 36 39 37 47 49 51 34 62 59 68 60 57 46 62 59 79 77 90 63 89 107 85 97 85 85 117 96 130 136 142 190 205 156 118 71 46 9 0 3305
BELGIUM   87 19 20 26 37 40 47 35 40 36 33 32 37 35 22 25 29 20 24 18 22 22 17 28 20 28 34 30 35 31 46 64 96 82 74 84 83 90 73 81 72 53 35 30 5 0 1897
FINLAND   1 0 2 1 2 8 6 4 10 11 7 9 3 9 14 13 23 18 11 20 21 41 38 14 45 25 51 39 62 44 45 70 69 72 75 73 94 81 126 122 99 62 38 22 2 0 1602
AUSTRIA   33 8 7 13 16 15 28 15 19 20 19 26 16 14 14 22 19 19 28 17 26 20 26 35 25 31 33 44 47 30 24 47 40 33 36 41 50 71 66 86 65 60 37 31 3 0 1375
DENMARK   25 4 15 11 12 9 19 12 17 12 15 18 16 19 25 21 16 20 12 13 20 18 23 25 24 24 14 32 26 20 24 34 35 40 71 72 73 86 100 97 71 37 12 8 0 0 1297
SPAIN   8 1 0 0 0 2 4 4 4 2 6 2 3 3 5 1 5 1 1 3 4 0 3 6 5 7 8 10 8 9 15 20 14 8 17 16 17 20 18 27 32 16 11 5 2 0 353
IRELAND   1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 3 3 2 0 3 4 4 9 6 6 4 5 4 1 9 7 13 18 17 9 20 22 34 24 22 14 6 3 0 288
HUNGARY   12 3 2 4 4 2 4 2 4 4 5 4 4 13 10 4 11 11 6 13 11 14 6 10 7 10 6 5 3 0 1 3 4 4 6 6 6 3 5 8 6 5 4 0 1 0 256
POLAND   3 2 0 5 4 4 3 9 5 3 2 1 2 4 1 4 3 1 3 4 0 4 1 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 2 5 0 2 0 3 1 2 1 10 4 5 4 2 0 0 117
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 5 1 3 2 3 4 5 2 0 3 0 0 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 4 4 7 4 5 1 3 0 0 0 77
GREECE   2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 3 3 2 0 4 4 3 4 2 5 6 5 1 0 0 0 66
BULGARIA   0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 3 2 3 4 1 3 3 0 1 2 4 0 4 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 52
ROMANIA   0 1 0 1 2 4 5 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 47
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 4 1 3 1 6 1 5 6 3 5 2 4 1 0 43
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 0 3 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 26
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 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 4 9 1 0 0 0 23
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 1 1 2 1 5 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 15
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 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 15
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 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
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 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
CYPRUS   0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

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   384 72 83 124 89 112 146 93 110 110 121 148 142 123 145 131 149 169 138 133 157 169 169 190 194 198 242 208 211 227 222 285 320 342 378 387 406 389 451 485 415 320 245 135 30 1 9498
U.S. GOVERNMENT   13 1 2 2 3 2 0 2 5 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 62
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   4 0 1 2 2 4 3 0 1 0 5 1 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 43
FOREIGN CORPORATION   1725 337 490 573 603 750 741 759 767 771 817 881 862 910 1028 1061 1051 1094 970 1061 968 1124 1208 1348 1396 1432 1494 1525 1440 1376 1442 1746 1825 1878 2219 2439 2698 3120 3529 3899 3152 2308 1348 762 164 4 63095
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   130 24 27 33 27 29 27 17 31 25 33 26 28 32 36 22 30 66 48 66 42 66 71 64 55 50 76 76 62 45 33 51 40 34 26 19 9 8 12 11 8 5 1 0 0 0 1621
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   481 70 127 131 125 143 160 174 172 173 179 163 144 168 171 201 171 206 201 188 162 220 192 215 232 251 209 227 183 180 196 216 236 227 247 230 294 288 255 265 148 86 62 33 5 0 8407

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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