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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 325. CHEMICALS

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   99 145 192 256 340 329 497 556 613 1109 851 1051 1231 1355 1109 1170 822 1133 1361 1241 1273 1416 1694 1550 1712 1756 2302 2487 2571 2773 2961 2691 2628 2558 2701 3353 3285 3147 3528 3520 3248 2939 2377 3025 2844 2807 82604
-- 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   99 145 192 256 340 329 497 556 613 1109 851 1051 1231 1355 1109 1170 822 1133 1361 1241 1273 1416 1694 1550 1712 1756 2302 2487 2571 2773 2961 2691 2628 2558 2701 3353 3285 3147 3528 3520 3248 2939 2377 3025 2844 2807 82604
JAPAN   94 145 188 253 337 316 488 545 607 1094 832 1039 1225 1338 1095 1153 809 1124 1347 1235 1256 1402 1668 1534 1687 1730 2257 2426 2508 2686 2840 2565 2459 2377 2486 3049 2890 2732 3007 2902 2594 2297 1814 2286 2113 2060 74892
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 3 1 4 1 3 5 1 5 7 8 2 5 5 13 18 26 37 50 51 84 99 99 130 176 185 217 246 271 243 204 280 298 282 3059
INDIA   1 0 3 2 1 4 8 8 5 8 13 7 3 12 6 11 11 3 3 1 8 5 6 11 8 9 6 14 10 16 23 13 20 18 28 55 75 86 118 175 200 173 168 198 161 170 1878
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 1 3 3 3 4 2 9 2 3 5 11 15 16 22 31 48 40 51 57 67 103 88 122 117 101 116 101 128 119 149 1543
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 13 8 8 10 13 8 15 11 25 32 21 36 44 56 55 71 51 67 88 79 725
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 6 1 3 7 7 7 10 12 8 21 20 33 40 37 225
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 2 4 3 3 10 7 8 7 4 11 12 10 21 18 16 143
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 5 3 7 5 6 8 44
THAILAND   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 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 5 3 1 5 1 1 1 6 1 6 37
PHILIPPINES   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 0 36
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 20
CHINA, MACAU S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

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 3 4 3 17 20 12 15 20 24 12 40 23 32 21 33 26 39 39 23 17 26 21 19 35 32 42 41 55 47 53 38 53 42 56 95 92 95 143 100 91 94 58 88 78 81 1998
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 3 3 3 42
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 21
FOREIGN CORPORATION   82 128 167 225 289 289 450 497 549 1022 786 948 1169 1286 1054 1095 757 1044 1254 1164 1202 1343 1621 1467 1622 1665 2179 2349 2431 2639 2820 2588 2511 2438 2553 3129 3067 2941 3256 3293 3016 2731 2233 2821 2661 2649 77481
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 5 7 2 9 16 18 19 14 20 12 16 19 16 26 27 28 26 30 20 12 7 21 21 19 13 15 10 14 13 6 4 2 5 2 497
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   13 13 21 28 31 20 34 40 39 59 51 62 34 29 31 33 22 33 50 40 33 34 33 44 37 32 53 67 59 56 66 51 56 57 71 108 112 93 118 113 127 106 77 111 98 72 2565

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 325. CHEMICALS

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   855 242 371 396 535 650 736 819 917 789 1031 1203 1094 1012 1073 1119 1265 1415 1377 1463 1438 1554 1719 1870 2058 2418 2728 2671 2592 2723 2651 2972 3395 3103 3453 3156 3464 3961 4341 4418 3330 2189 1239 608 180 10 82604
-- 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   855 242 371 396 535 650 736 819 917 789 1031 1203 1094 1012 1073 1119 1265 1415 1377 1463 1438 1554 1719 1870 2058 2418 2728 2671 2592 2723 2651 2972 3395 3103 3453 3156 3464 3961 4341 4418 3330 2189 1239 608 180 10 82604
JAPAN   842 236 364 389 523 639 730 808 903 779 1024 1185 1082 997 1060 1107 1253 1409 1360 1442 1421 1539 1700 1837 2026 2359 2656 2589 2499 2595 2493 2743 3132 2822 3081 2725 2981 3245 3489 3368 2452 1580 885 408 126 7 74892
KOREA, SOUTH   0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 2 4 3 5 7 5 4 4 5 8 23 27 29 39 51 70 118 124 128 147 191 209 300 338 419 329 229 142 72 13 1 3059
INDIA   6 0 5 5 10 9 5 3 9 7 5 12 5 10 9 6 3 2 8 5 7 8 8 13 3 10 17 15 13 27 17 25 30 50 82 86 103 176 256 295 243 163 62 41 9 0 1878
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 3 5 1 3 7 4 3 2 3 11 9 15 22 29 36 51 54 71 57 94 93 110 133 111 180 150 122 75 60 21 2 1543
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 7 12 10 12 8 9 16 14 30 31 23 43 35 75 93 89 93 49 39 15 7 0 725
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 2 8 1 4 12 7 10 11 24 36 42 24 22 9 1 0 225
SINGAPORE   0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 9 6 5 8 6 10 16 16 21 12 14 5 1 2 0 143
MALAYSIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 2 8 4 6 5 5 2 0 0 44
THAILAND   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 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 2 4 2 5 4 2 2 4 0 0 0 37
PHILIPPINES   3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 36
INDONESIA   2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 20
CHINA, MACAU S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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

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 16 15 9 16 8 21 16 16 38 22 28 20 25 31 39 37 26 17 26 25 11 38 38 31 47 45 67 30 56 49 56 74 74 101 96 130 125 105 130 82 59 47 27 5 1 1998
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 3 2 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 42
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 21
FOREIGN CORPORATION   738 213 328 350 483 590 685 755 853 696 973 1145 1041 948 998 1031 1163 1326 1310 1387 1358 1491 1621 1773 1955 2279 2592 2528 2469 2593 2539 2826 3203 2911 3231 2942 3199 3700 4043 4117 3134 2064 1163 560 168 9 77481
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 4 6 4 6 16 15 20 17 14 15 19 17 14 24 23 34 25 25 22 15 11 17 18 24 16 12 14 17 10 14 2 1 0 1 0 0 497
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   90 13 27 37 31 51 26 47 45 51 30 24 29 32 29 35 46 47 35 33 34 34 42 34 49 56 65 50 70 57 52 72 98 93 101 105 121 117 182 152 105 65 29 20 5 0 2565

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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