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


Asia 10 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
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
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.


Asia 10 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 3343,3346. OTHER COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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   18 20 46 52 75 81 107 165 300 364 386 412 459 479 469 498 421 597 645 669 689 875 1108 1106 1427 1427 1938 1624 1952 2037 2298 2351 2334 2454 2295 3149 2964 2772 2705 2820 3026 3528 2931 4160 3873 4140 68246
-- 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   18 20 46 52 75 81 107 165 300 364 386 412 459 479 469 498 421 597 645 669 689 875 1108 1106 1427 1427 1938 1624 1952 2037 2298 2351 2334 2454 2295 3149 2964 2772 2705 2820 3026 3528 2931 4160 3873 4140 68246
JAPAN   18 18 46 52 73 78 107 165 298 362 385 412 459 477 468 497 420 594 644 667 685 873 1104 1101 1415 1403 1903 1586 1885 1923 2111 2115 2114 2153 1966 2682 2548 2386 2303 2361 2539 2933 2430 3325 2943 3064 60091
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 10 15 24 24 56 98 156 201 205 262 278 389 331 295 298 293 284 341 258 493 544 668 5526
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 4 2 6 9 7 8 12 22 29 11 34 36 61 73 70 79 138 140 153 172 246 288 283 1893
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 5 2 1 8 8 9 15 18 20 47 72 41 49 41 45 392
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   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 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 4 5 10 11 22 30 39 134
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 6 1 3 6 2 9 12 11 12 16 17 116
INDIA   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 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 0 0 2 5 5 4 8 12 42
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 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 1 0 1 2 9 2 10 33
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 11
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 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 6
PHILIPPINES   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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   1 1 0 3 7 7 1 8 7 4 3 2 4 0 8 3 6 3 5 2 4 6 2 7 7 7 6 11 9 11 16 18 14 31 26 41 36 57 48 67 75 117 62 74 71 79 977
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   11 10 32 41 58 65 101 148 254 310 356 395 444 459 438 481 399 578 627 649 670 855 1083 1089 1399 1406 1911 1587 1923 2007 2257 2309 2299 2398 2248 3063 2898 2682 2621 2701 2892 3366 2838 4042 3753 4024 66177
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 0 1 2 1 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 25
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6 9 14 8 10 9 5 9 39 50 27 15 11 20 23 14 16 15 12 17 12 13 20 10 20 11 19 22 19 18 23 24 21 25 21 45 30 33 35 52 58 44 30 44 49 37 1064

Asia 10 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 3343,3346. OTHER COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

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   178 60 79 115 123 192 232 330 346 368 411 424 467 448 552 615 694 766 884 983 986 1034 1191 1384 1591 1858 2061 2123 2276 2181 2311 2866 2959 3377 3871 3134 3282 3721 3974 3851 3691 3174 1944 884 244 11 68246
-- 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   178 60 79 115 123 192 232 330 346 368 411 424 467 448 552 615 694 766 884 983 986 1034 1191 1384 1591 1858 2061 2123 2276 2181 2311 2866 2959 3377 3871 3134 3282 3721 3974 3851 3691 3174 1944 884 244 11 68246
JAPAN   175 56 79 115 123 191 231 327 346 368 411 422 466 447 550 613 693 764 879 982 981 1029 1181 1354 1565 1822 1967 2011 2067 1993 2069 2556 2578 2855 3327 2627 2799 3144 3338 3160 2826 2292 1479 646 180 7 60091
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 7 23 17 28 77 97 179 163 214 274 322 446 442 383 322 372 358 346 513 496 255 148 38 2 5526
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 1 3 2 5 7 7 8 9 23 21 23 27 44 61 81 98 119 139 163 258 256 288 157 67 16 1 1893
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 4 3 8 7 14 23 31 46 87 39 43 34 24 10 4 0 392
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 11 13 18 23 33 14 6 3 0 134
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 6 1 1 0 0 4 4 5 4 2 6 5 13 20 12 16 7 4 0 0 116
INDIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 6 7 10 3 1 2 1 42
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 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 1 2 11 5 3 1 1 0 33
THAILAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 11
INDONESIA   0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
PHILIPPINES   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 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   10 5 2 7 5 4 3 5 2 0 5 0 7 2 5 4 5 4 5 4 5 5 7 3 9 6 12 11 23 14 10 22 55 44 47 68 56 96 123 82 78 60 40 12 3 2 977
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   125 51 68 102 111 163 197 287 320 357 391 411 439 432 531 587 674 745 864 959 962 1015 1172 1367 1562 1828 2029 2092 2225 2146 2277 2821 2874 3289 3781 3036 3169 3572 3792 3718 3568 3085 1872 865 237 9 66177
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   43 4 9 6 7 25 32 38 24 11 15 13 21 14 16 22 14 16 12 18 17 13 11 13 18 21 18 19 26 21 24 23 30 44 43 30 56 50 59 51 45 29 32 7 4 0 1064

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


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