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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
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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 -

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 326. PLASTICS AND RUBBER 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   29 17 38 38 63 75 86 110 139 228 184 244 308 344 274 337 245 283 420 382 433 492 549 546 664 725 857 837 945 1044 1087 1087 967 941 993 1251 1303 1325 1378 1445 1418 1339 925 897 829 795 28917
-- 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   29 17 38 38 63 75 86 110 139 228 184 244 308 344 274 337 245 283 420 382 433 492 549 546 664 725 857 837 945 1044 1087 1087 967 941 993 1251 1303 1325 1378 1445 1418 1339 925 897 829 795 28917
JAPAN   27 16 37 37 61 72 83 109 138 226 179 241 303 339 269 335 240 274 412 377 428 484 536 530 642 692 815 788 892 978 995 987 849 815 862 1071 1094 1096 1133 1180 1157 1068 723 686 630 618 25529
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 3 1 1 5 5 4 3 7 8 11 15 26 31 37 39 48 65 77 76 98 92 123 148 161 171 178 161 162 128 123 108 97 2216
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 4 7 8 9 8 20 17 28 20 29 43 46 53 53 57 67 70 50 54 59 52 767
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 3 4 5 3 6 9 10 9 8 5 8 8 5 115
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 3 1 2 0 4 0 3 4 4 7 8 7 6 10 10 13 90
INDIA   0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 2 3 0 1 1 5 3 1 2 2 1 4 3 4 8 6 5 7 3 73
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 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 2 1 1 3 1 0 2 4 3 3 7 9 10 4 5 5 4 67
MALAYSIA   1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 1 1 0 1 1 5 1 3 2 3 31
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 13
THAILAND   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 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 11
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

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 1 2 5 6 2 3 1 5 11 5 4 3 3 14 9 9 8 4 5 5 10 8 6 11 11 8 18 18 11 13 15 19 28 26 28 20 29 25 23 32 23 20 25 20 555
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
FOREIGN CORPORATION   20 12 31 28 44 53 67 94 123 200 146 214 279 313 244 301 210 251 373 356 402 459 503 497 613 659 778 769 855 951 980 989 865 824 871 1090 1145 1165 1209 1272 1273 1182 802 785 720 713 25730
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 2 1 5 2 5 4 2 1 6 4 4 2 4 4 6 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 70
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   8 4 6 9 14 16 16 13 13 22 28 25 25 26 26 21 24 22 33 21 20 23 31 38 38 52 64 58 68 71 90 81 86 97 94 133 128 136 138 147 121 125 99 91 85 62 2549

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 326. PLASTICS AND RUBBER 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   161 50 56 77 106 112 164 159 207 190 278 311 304 294 285 309 385 392 428 478 451 553 646 694 791 908 1023 988 1034 999 1026 1091 1210 1279 1441 1349 1418 1467 1659 1575 1188 778 397 169 38 1 28917
-- 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   161 50 56 77 106 112 164 159 207 190 278 311 304 294 285 309 385 392 428 478 451 553 646 694 791 908 1023 988 1034 999 1026 1091 1210 1279 1441 1349 1418 1467 1659 1575 1188 778 397 169 38 1 28917
JAPAN   155 48 54 75 105 110 163 158 202 188 273 308 299 288 281 304 375 385 422 471 444 538 624 673 753 861 977 928 961 906 911 956 1064 1101 1253 1117 1158 1188 1363 1250 901 550 272 93 19 1 25529
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 3 2 3 5 5 5 6 5 8 12 14 28 33 32 42 56 65 86 93 101 117 125 161 188 181 179 186 178 133 84 58 14 0 2216
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 4 1 8 7 9 13 10 21 17 33 28 50 48 52 46 67 76 97 71 58 27 10 4 0 767
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   3 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 4 3 4 4 3 7 8 10 10 11 9 9 4 0 0 0 115
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 4 2 2 0 4 1 4 2 5 4 10 11 10 12 7 5 1 0 90
INDIA   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 5 0 1 0 1 4 2 4 1 0 5 3 4 2 10 8 8 1 1 0 0 73
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 3 6 8 10 6 6 7 1 1 1 0 67
MALAYSIA   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 2 5 1 4 0 2 2 0 0 31
INDONESIA   1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
THAILAND   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 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 11
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

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   8 2 4 3 2 2 2 4 10 4 6 3 3 12 11 10 6 3 7 5 6 7 10 8 10 13 16 14 15 13 17 22 25 35 28 26 22 25 29 37 34 21 9 7 1 0 555
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
FOREIGN CORPORATION   119 40 43 59 90 97 146 133 175 164 245 283 279 254 246 273 344 361 397 448 415 512 594 643 717 834 939 902 934 908 916 968 1079 1124 1284 1182 1243 1305 1476 1386 1020 661 335 127 29 1 25730
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 4 4 3 3 3 3 0 7 4 1 4 4 6 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   33 7 8 15 14 12 16 22 21 22 25 23 22 25 27 24 31 24 20 21 27 30 40 36 60 59 64 68 79 74 90 100 105 117 128 140 152 135 152 152 134 95 53 35 8 0 2549

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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