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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

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
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 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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   90 71 92 97 111 112 130 148 184 171 155 180 169 201 134 171 103 168 188 167 136 167 178 184 189 177 214 179 156 166 156 156 176 183 172 258 277 256 276 233 211 203 161 157 149 157 7771
-- 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   90 71 92 97 111 112 130 148 184 171 155 180 169 201 134 171 103 168 188 167 136 167 178 184 189 177 214 179 156 166 156 156 176 183 172 258 277 256 276 233 211 203 161 157 149 157 7771
GERMANY   35 32 29 44 43 41 54 62 72 72 61 73 77 96 57 81 53 78 93 82 65 83 76 79 85 78 88 84 60 73 67 61 80 76 75 86 98 86 101 85 85 76 51 50 50 49 3183
UNITED KINGDOM   23 17 27 23 39 37 38 46 58 46 34 44 39 44 26 37 17 31 34 27 24 30 32 29 29 25 29 23 23 19 26 24 18 24 27 37 39 34 42 30 35 32 23 27 23 25 1421
FRANCE   15 10 14 14 6 14 16 16 25 26 22 34 28 29 18 21 16 23 28 30 23 20 27 27 26 33 39 28 32 35 27 23 23 26 21 44 46 41 40 35 31 24 23 25 24 19 1172
ITALY   6 5 6 6 6 6 8 6 8 7 11 10 6 12 14 7 5 11 11 9 6 10 11 12 16 14 16 15 10 9 9 16 10 14 18 36 23 27 26 20 13 27 27 20 12 22 597
SWEDEN   5 2 5 2 3 1 1 4 8 5 7 5 8 5 5 8 1 7 10 5 6 5 11 13 11 6 6 5 7 7 4 5 12 7 5 16 13 20 23 17 23 13 16 13 8 10 380
BELGIUM   1 3 4 1 5 5 2 1 1 1 4 1 2 4 4 3 3 4 3 4 2 7 1 6 4 4 8 5 4 3 2 11 6 8 7 9 11 10 20 17 4 10 11 9 7 8 250
NETHERLANDS   3 2 4 3 2 3 8 3 4 4 3 6 3 5 6 4 2 5 2 4 4 6 10 2 7 7 11 9 6 6 14 2 6 9 3 3 7 9 7 7 9 7 5 4 7 5 247
AUSTRIA   1 0 1 2 2 2 0 5 5 4 6 0 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 5 6 1 7 1 2 4 4 4 7 8 7 8 10 12 6 7 5 3 0 2 6 8 171
DENMARK   0 0 0 1 2 0 1 4 2 2 1 3 1 0 2 4 1 5 3 1 1 1 1 3 0 3 3 2 4 2 1 2 3 7 4 4 20 7 7 2 2 3 2 2 1 3 121
SPAIN   1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 2 3 1 3 2 1 3 0 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 3 4 2 1 4 0 1 3 0 2 7 3 3 1 4 1 4 1 2 5 3 85
FINLAND   0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 3 2 5 6 3 1 3 3 2 2 2 4 2 1 4 1 4 1 2 1 1 76
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 21
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 14
GREECE   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 13
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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 5
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
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 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 1 3
BULGARIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
POLAND   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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   3 5 5 7 6 9 11 9 6 7 12 15 9 11 8 15 5 10 9 18 16 25 15 15 12 10 17 11 15 16 16 18 19 20 23 32 35 36 33 35 39 27 24 23 23 35 772
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
FOREIGN CORPORATION   68 39 56 65 71 77 98 104 139 130 101 129 120 168 96 128 74 124 146 113 94 110 127 136 130 133 158 138 119 124 115 116 136 136 125 185 195 168 203 168 143 154 117 121 99 105 5604
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 2 0 2 2 2 0 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 38
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   19 26 30 23 34 24 21 34 38 32 41 36 39 22 30 26 23 32 31 33 25 31 34 33 45 32 37 29 19 24 22 21 20 27 23 40 44 53 40 29 26 22 19 13 27 17 1347

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 313-316. TEXTILES, APPAREL AND LEATHER

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   389 75 108 129 119 128 152 150 164 140 176 161 151 139 149 169 180 174 144 153 155 166 175 185 191 217 172 164 145 149 168 214 220 252 297 261 294 272 273 255 180 127 58 21 8 0 7771
-- 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   389 75 108 129 119 128 152 150 164 140 176 161 151 139 149 169 180 174 144 153 155 166 175 185 191 217 172 164 145 149 168 214 220 252 297 261 294 272 273 255 180 127 58 21 8 0 7771
GERMANY   153 27 42 56 50 56 55 64 60 64 82 68 71 59 72 84 79 84 71 73 72 74 73 82 85 96 79 63 61 62 75 96 86 92 108 87 107 113 94 85 57 38 15 5 3 0 3183
UNITED KINGDOM   106 30 37 40 29 32 52 33 42 36 40 32 30 31 28 27 36 30 23 26 25 31 30 24 23 28 26 25 23 19 27 23 35 33 34 42 36 49 41 35 31 20 10 4 1 0 1421
FRANCE   57 7 9 13 20 11 23 26 30 18 30 22 24 20 23 22 25 31 26 16 20 26 25 38 30 36 28 35 30 25 22 29 30 42 49 37 49 34 41 35 24 22 8 3 1 0 1172
ITALY   24 3 8 5 6 6 4 11 9 8 5 17 7 9 7 9 14 9 5 7 11 12 13 11 19 17 15 6 10 11 10 17 20 32 25 27 25 24 30 37 24 15 9 3 1 0 597
SWEDEN   14 2 3 2 1 7 6 3 6 4 4 9 5 7 3 5 15 6 4 10 8 10 8 8 5 8 5 7 3 9 8 9 12 13 25 19 25 14 25 22 12 6 5 0 0 0 380
BELGIUM   8 2 4 4 1 2 0 2 3 2 2 5 2 2 3 6 2 4 3 6 3 2 6 5 4 8 3 5 3 7 6 8 8 10 12 15 16 13 15 17 11 7 2 0 0 0 250
NETHERLANDS   13 1 3 1 7 5 5 0 5 3 5 3 6 4 3 5 2 5 7 6 6 5 5 5 11 12 5 8 9 4 5 9 3 6 10 8 10 8 11 4 10 5 1 0 0 0 247
AUSTRIA   5 1 0 1 3 4 3 4 5 1 0 2 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 5 4 3 4 4 3 2 3 3 6 5 8 9 8 11 9 11 4 4 8 2 6 3 2 2 0 171
DENMARK   2 2 1 3 1 2 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 4 1 4 4 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 4 2 3 0 2 3 6 9 4 12 10 6 3 3 4 2 1 2 1 0 0 121
SPAIN   5 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 1 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 2 4 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 6 4 2 4 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 0 0 85
FINLAND   0 0 2 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 2 0 2 4 2 3 5 5 1 2 3 3 2 2 4 3 1 4 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 76
IRELAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 21
LUXEMBOURG   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14
GREECE   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 13
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 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 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 5
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 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
PORTUGAL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
BULGARIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
POLAND   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ROMANIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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   24 5 4 9 12 4 7 5 11 8 18 8 7 11 13 7 11 17 22 22 14 11 13 14 9 16 14 13 16 15 21 27 25 29 41 39 30 46 39 35 31 23 17 3 4 0 772
U.S. GOVERNMENT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
FOREIGN CORPORATION   258 54 81 92 77 96 115 109 118 106 117 123 118 102 108 126 135 114 97 101 111 129 117 136 144 163 137 124 106 111 127 156 163 189 208 175 214 194 195 186 125 90 33 16 5 0 5604
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 2 2 1 2 1 3 3 2 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 38
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   104 16 23 28 31 29 30 33 34 25 39 30 26 25 27 34 34 39 25 28 29 24 44 35 36 36 18 23 21 23 17 31 30 32 45 47 50 31 39 34 22 13 8 2 0 0 1347

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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