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Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)


Patenting Trends in the United States
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 -

Patenting Trends in the United States
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.


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Patenting Trends in the United States
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 3252. RESIN, SYNTHETIC RUBBER, FIBERS, AND FILAMENTS

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   519 598 948 1247 1301 1119 1282 1156 967 1554 1022 1046 997 1077 988 1223 785 978 1100 933 1084 1062 1158 982 1131 1128 1395 1502 1642 1805 1825 1693 1440 1387 1451 1596 1417 1561 1882 1798 1694 1550 1143 1348 1068 867 57446
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   420 470 744 958 973 798 892 729 573 916 654 597 571 569 583 717 430 559 632 510 628 608 666 589 609 572 699 747 809 919 885 850 699 698 686 709 679 718 813 815 754 662 549 608 490 396 31152
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   100 128 204 289 328 322 390 428 395 638 368 449 426 508 405 506 355 419 468 424 457 455 492 393 522 556 696 755 832 886 940 843 740 689 765 886 738 842 1069 983 940 887 594 740 579 471 26295
ALABAMA   5 4 4 1 5 4 10 2 2 4 2 2 1 1 3 2 3 3 0 1 0 1 4 1 0 0 2 3 0 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 7 2 4 8 2 3 3 5 5 5 119
ALASKA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ARIZONA   0 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 6 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 2 2 4 3 3 4 1 4 1 0 1 0 3 2 1 3 1 1 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 5 4 5 84
ARKANSAS   0 0 1 1 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 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 10
CALIFORNIA   30 27 52 69 59 34 52 40 33 50 56 24 24 28 29 57 30 35 47 19 24 25 25 28 36 30 42 31 38 58 39 42 28 30 43 58 36 38 36 60 46 46 44 52 52 26 1800
COLORADO   1 1 1 4 1 3 2 4 2 6 1 7 1 1 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 3 1 0 2 1 2 3 4 4 1 3 3 3 2 0 3 4 2 2 5 1 4 1 92
CONNECTICUT   11 21 30 21 26 22 19 23 14 25 26 21 27 22 29 40 11 14 19 16 20 26 21 18 13 17 12 16 15 22 26 29 10 11 21 11 16 23 22 14 11 14 10 15 14 6 857
DELAWARE   31 44 58 73 89 67 73 52 31 77 54 44 44 34 38 32 14 23 30 19 31 24 34 26 27 24 28 35 47 48 55 53 49 37 38 38 36 43 46 35 41 29 27 26 7 12 1815
FLORIDA   3 4 5 6 11 7 4 10 9 12 5 7 5 5 7 4 6 3 4 5 5 4 3 4 3 7 11 4 4 7 7 6 2 7 6 9 8 8 5 6 6 10 8 13 4 4 273
GEORGIA   0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 3 4 2 4 3 7 10 14 18 18 5 10 12 7 21 10 9 13 13 14 12 12 12 13 9 260
HAWAII   0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 7
IDAHO   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 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 11
ILLINOIS   12 19 31 44 20 33 31 20 20 30 21 19 32 33 33 32 21 35 36 31 26 32 31 28 25 29 27 22 32 33 25 30 31 26 18 23 24 24 25 16 22 16 16 23 10 7 1165
INDIANA   14 10 15 17 15 10 6 10 11 22 16 9 14 7 13 11 6 16 24 11 19 23 22 16 21 17 13 18 12 6 11 14 14 9 9 7 10 3 2 13 4 5 4 6 6 7 539
IOWA   0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 3 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 3 0 0 1 3 1 49
KANSAS   1 1 8 6 3 2 4 7 2 6 8 8 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 8 6 1 0 0 0 92
KENTUCKY   3 3 1 6 16 11 2 6 3 4 3 2 4 2 6 5 2 4 2 1 4 4 3 4 4 3 2 4 3 4 5 4 1 1 2 1 7 4 4 1 4 0 1 3 1 2 153
LOUISIANA   5 4 5 12 6 7 9 12 5 15 3 5 6 6 6 9 7 0 6 5 7 8 11 7 13 10 6 27 14 14 5 3 6 6 4 8 6 8 12 4 10 9 3 2 5 4 333
MAINE   0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 13
MARYLAND   5 10 12 14 14 9 6 12 11 16 10 9 8 3 5 6 4 3 7 5 7 7 5 5 3 7 6 5 10 7 9 13 10 20 15 11 15 5 7 10 7 3 6 4 4 2 365
MASSACHUSETTS   17 29 52 43 35 26 32 18 19 22 12 15 15 16 15 24 7 16 25 12 27 22 22 32 24 15 27 21 33 30 23 22 13 18 20 23 33 22 27 35 19 29 15 36 30 19 1080
MICHIGAN   18 19 38 58 64 42 44 37 44 65 47 28 27 31 28 49 27 31 41 41 39 37 47 45 54 47 53 57 53 64 59 46 47 46 40 45 45 53 39 42 42 51 30 23 24 21 1918
MINNESOTA   13 9 13 16 11 20 27 24 18 19 20 15 11 13 14 8 9 6 19 8 8 15 10 17 13 17 17 15 11 24 22 37 27 28 29 34 30 24 27 34 35 34 20 29 18 17 875
MISSISSIPPI   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 4 2 43
MISSOURI   4 3 7 19 13 6 11 11 7 8 4 9 6 6 5 15 5 9 9 7 5 8 6 4 5 0 2 1 4 3 4 6 1 4 0 4 6 6 7 2 6 2 1 2 2 4 248
MONTANA   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7
NEBRASKA   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 11
NEVADA   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6
NEW HAMPSHIRE   0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 4 4 3 4 1 3 2 36
NEW JERSEY   67 54 89 128 133 123 130 109 73 119 77 64 66 61 57 68 43 65 66 55 72 72 75 58 67 67 92 97 111 110 79 85 53 60 67 61 44 56 53 50 44 35 26 26 23 26 3242
NEW MEXICO   0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 5 0 1 2 3 1 2 36
NEW YORK   27 38 53 55 97 58 67 58 48 79 83 75 42 62 61 77 38 46 56 56 45 46 44 43 57 55 62 70 80 83 88 69 61 58 51 49 51 51 74 52 53 46 42 34 33 28 2598
NORTH CAROLINA   3 10 13 18 31 30 27 17 12 17 5 10 9 6 6 11 7 3 7 2 4 2 2 2 4 6 10 8 9 10 7 8 9 23 20 17 25 19 18 23 23 19 15 15 8 10 548
NORTH DAKOTA   0 0 0 0 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 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 11
OHIO   24 39 44 60 74 57 80 73 57 88 65 71 86 97 79 81 67 87 73 53 75 73 77 64 81 68 64 64 63 82 68 71 45 50 54 63 57 58 98 77 80 61 50 73 40 32 3029
OKLAHOMA   33 16 57 52 59 47 65 34 42 48 36 39 40 32 41 46 16 29 31 31 46 47 43 20 10 11 17 10 27 37 47 40 22 18 10 7 7 13 23 15 27 11 12 14 11 6 1334
OREGON   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 3 2 1 2 2 5 1 1 2 1 0 4 2 1 2 1 2 42
PENNSYLVANIA   36 50 63 84 71 67 91 71 46 80 46 56 36 42 48 54 45 53 44 37 50 46 45 47 39 47 43 43 35 60 82 75 71 89 61 66 70 66 71 69 63 75 48 46 42 35 2595
RHODE ISLAND   1 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 8 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 11 6 3 3 3 4 3 2 5 0 1 4 1 4 4 6 6 1 2 96
SOUTH CAROLINA   1 1 1 4 2 3 4 2 3 4 3 3 2 1 2 4 1 1 3 14 7 3 4 2 3 1 3 3 12 4 5 4 6 6 5 7 6 5 5 8 5 7 10 11 4 3 187
SOUTH DAKOTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
TENNESSEE   15 17 30 43 28 23 13 15 10 8 6 5 9 5 15 10 13 10 13 16 11 20 20 20 11 17 21 29 30 23 25 23 23 15 23 7 18 23 14 24 18 10 7 8 18 13 761
TEXAS   13 16 17 39 44 41 45 32 18 39 18 23 36 33 30 41 29 38 39 46 63 41 78 69 68 57 88 108 103 112 109 117 109 74 75 77 54 106 110 132 100 86 84 91 74 54 2866
UTAH   0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 3 1 2 4 1 3 1 3 3 2 3 1 2 4 3 2 4 2 1 0 1 53
VERMONT   0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 17
VIRGINIA   7 2 7 14 7 11 12 12 14 19 13 11 8 4 1 11 8 9 7 6 11 7 5 7 4 4 16 14 13 26 26 16 15 12 13 12 17 16 11 8 7 12 9 12 6 16 483
WASHINGTON   0 0 1 1 5 2 3 2 0 0 3 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 3 2 3 5 4 3 4 6 3 8 3 3 5 4 4 104
WEST VIRGINIA   23 23 31 43 32 27 17 11 13 11 7 11 7 9 10 15 8 13 14 8 8 7 13 7 12 8 8 14 12 16 16 13 12 13 25 26 14 13 18 23 19 5 18 5 11 3 662
WISCONSIN   1 0 2 5 3 4 2 2 1 6 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 5 2 5 1 3 2 6 1 11 7 5 2 4 4 5 8 12 5 13 6 15 15 12 11 7 2 3 5 208
WYOMING   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA   0 0 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19
PUERTO RICO   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
JAPAN   14 8 29 30 44 57 77 98 94 194 114 140 157 168 119 169 121 146 185 188 207 191 264 179 264 244 300 355 404 443 475 448 372 330 336 381 318 360 449 434 391 346 248 299 250 195 10624
GERMANY   44 48 77 105 132 120 140 145 126 184 105 132 114 143 142 154 120 128 121 102 127 140 105 114 131 164 186 183 192 221 204 183 159 187 210 230 183 197 241 207 229 213 141 152 116 80 6867
FRANCE   7 9 8 9 17 26 29 34 41 57 27 33 36 43 30 32 20 28 37 36 23 22 25 22 28 29 47 51 54 55 51 34 38 32 30 53 28 38 49 43 58 41 36 42 30 26 1531
UNITED KINGDOM   11 15 30 47 47 35 47 52 41 67 42 44 38 47 43 42 23 19 34 28 35 32 23 17 20 22 20 37 38 33 31 21 30 13 31 34 23 25 32 30 24 36 15 32 17 13 1424
ITALY   10 22 21 45 30 24 36 37 19 52 24 35 28 24 12 21 16 16 18 18 11 15 19 10 14 23 30 33 36 30 42 37 28 40 37 33 27 41 51 40 35 42 18 30 23 20 1264
NETHERLANDS   2 10 15 13 16 18 13 12 18 24 10 10 9 14 6 12 5 14 10 20 15 15 11 8 11 25 51 31 46 35 44 28 19 14 24 32 29 24 31 42 32 27 11 18 17 7 888
SWITZERLAND   9 9 13 18 19 21 17 15 17 21 20 17 18 23 14 21 12 22 24 12 16 12 16 15 16 16 24 19 11 11 15 18 6 11 14 23 21 13 25 19 16 22 11 8 12 8 731
CANADA   2 6 5 7 9 4 7 14 10 9 9 6 4 7 7 4 7 8 5 5 2 8 8 3 10 10 14 10 14 15 22 15 30 14 15 13 12 28 32 37 17 35 23 23 12 16 565
BELGIUM   2 2 3 8 8 7 9 13 11 12 5 7 5 15 8 11 15 12 12 0 5 3 5 5 5 5 11 8 11 10 17 14 11 10 19 22 22 21 43 28 25 22 15 25 16 17 551
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 5 6 4 10 9 18 12 12 18 15 39 30 33 41 41 31 38 26 35 428
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 3 3 7 14 5 10 13 15 16 13 18 16 14 9 9 11 11 9 197
AUSTRIA   0 0 1 1 0 1 3 4 2 4 1 2 1 2 2 4 3 3 2 2 4 3 2 3 4 3 6 3 6 12 6 3 5 2 7 2 4 5 7 6 5 3 1 8 4 3 146
FINLAND   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 7 1 3 0 3 6 6 8 3 7 9 8 10 17 12 9 10 6 4 7 8 143
AUSTRALIA   1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 7 4 5 1 3 3 5 3 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 5 2 3 6 7 2 11 8 5 7 3 6 3 2 126
U.S.S.R.   0 0 1 0 3 2 3 0 5 5 6 11 7 6 6 11 6 11 6 6 4 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 105
INDIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 3 3 0 0 2 4 6 3 8 6 6 10 8 11 6 8 95
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   0 0 3 1 2 2 1 1 5 4 2 2 4 11 10 15 2 2 3 2 0 2 1 2 3 3 0 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 87
SWEDEN   0 1 0 5 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 3 1 1 3 3 8 5 2 1 0 5 3 2 73
ISRAEL   0 1 0 0 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 4 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 5 1 1 3 1 1 66
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   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 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 4 5 5 6 2 6 8 13 59
IRELAND   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 3 2 2 1 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 38
NORWAY   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 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 3 1 10 5 5 3 2 2 37
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2 4 9 4 1 2 1 0 1 6 2 33
SAUDI ARABIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 3 2 4 1 0 27
SPAIN   0 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 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 27
BRAZIL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 0 18
DENMARK   0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 17
SOUTH AFRICA   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 15
SINGAPORE   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 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 3 0 13
POLAND   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 13
HUNGARY   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
LIECHTENSTEIN   0 0 0 0 0 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 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 11
CHINA,HONG KONG 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 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 9
GREECE   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 7
LUXEMBOURG   0 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 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 7
MEXICO   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 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 6
TURKEY   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
NEW ZEALAND   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 4
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 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3
GUATEMALA   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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 0 1 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 2
VENEZUELA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 2
COLOMBIA   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
PERU   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 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
THE BAHAMAS   0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
COSTA RICA   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 0 0 0 0 0 1
CROATIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
EGYPT   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 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
MALI   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MOROCCO   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 0 1
UKRAINE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
ARGENTINA   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 0 1
LEBANON   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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   417 471 745 954 965 796 870 706 573 868 630 575 567 575 568 717 435 557 630 513 620 611 657 589 618 583 747 774 828 927 897 831 714 700 680 733 688 742 829 828 760 693 545 635 501 397 31256
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 4 12 14 10 14 14 22 11 29 15 17 11 15 13 14 14 12 10 12 22 11 17 15 9 10 12 16 20 29 28 22 14 21 16 13 17 13 13 12 9 10 14 8 5 10 641
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   10 9 13 27 38 19 21 22 17 49 31 21 10 15 21 28 8 20 32 12 16 13 21 12 14 16 13 14 24 23 27 27 15 12 19 29 24 16 23 20 24 14 15 13 17 11 884
FOREIGN CORPORATION   88 110 169 239 274 278 364 390 342 581 327 400 386 460 372 447 312 375 411 382 411 415 455 353 475 506 602 683 750 804 845 800 684 646 720 804 671 776 994 921 884 819 561 683 535 442 23943
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 1 0 0 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 3 5 7 3 4 9 8 5 12 3 5 6 7 3 3 1 5 5 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 115
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3 3 10 14 14 11 12 14 25 28 19 33 22 13 15 15 14 14 15 10 10 10 5 5 9 9 10 13 15 17 22 10 11 8 12 12 16 14 22 15 18 13 9 10 11 6 607

Patenting Trends in the United States
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 3252. RESIN, SYNTHETIC RUBBER, FIBERS, AND FILAMENTS

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   4258 859 873 968 975 959 1046 989 1023 859 968 1003 1065 942 934 1024 977 1002 1012 1018 977 1025 1173 1212 1265 1509 1757 1785 1589 1590 1584 1529 2005 1540 1815 1541 1714 1723 1841 1997 1605 1046 597 204 69 4 57446
-- Subtotal -- U.S. Origin   3295 627 598 651 642 546 631 611 643 485 554 546 603 561 520 569 565 546 583 606 581 586 683 628 630 718 847 915 782 791 806 742 969 692 830 712 768 763 769 790 727 540 344 115 42 2 31152
-- Subtotal -- Foreign Origin   963 232 276 317 334 413 415 379 380 374 414 457 462 381 415 456 412 457 429 412 396 439 489 584 635 791 911 870 807 798 778 787 1036 847 985 828 946 960 1072 1207 878 506 253 89 27 3 26295
ALABAMA   22 5 3 4 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 2 3 2 0 2 0 2 1 3 1 7 5 4 2 8 5 6 3 3 2 1 0 119
ALASKA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ARIZONA   2 1 0 1 2 2 5 1 2 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 3 7 2 2 2 3 0 0 1 2 2 3 1 3 1 2 3 3 2 1 5 3 6 5 2 1 0 0 84
ARKANSAS   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 10
CALIFORNIA   223 27 40 36 33 32 27 38 41 33 22 29 29 35 43 38 34 33 32 17 26 23 32 42 41 34 48 43 40 40 33 33 71 32 41 38 40 56 57 53 56 51 26 7 3 0 1800
COLORADO   11 0 2 3 2 2 2 5 3 5 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 3 1 2 3 1 2 6 0 4 1 3 4 1 4 1 3 2 3 3 5 1 0 0 0 92
CONNECTICUT   90 27 12 18 23 14 14 19 29 13 17 28 29 28 28 14 15 18 11 25 21 27 12 22 10 13 15 24 15 27 23 15 21 18 17 15 24 10 15 19 21 6 4 1 1 0 857
DELAWARE   272 63 44 49 48 33 49 49 49 43 41 33 36 20 24 17 32 18 33 25 32 24 29 26 27 35 44 49 48 41 49 40 54 42 48 40 42 39 40 42 22 20 11 2 0 0 1815
FLORIDA   21 7 4 6 6 13 7 11 4 6 4 5 6 4 7 3 4 5 4 5 3 2 9 5 7 5 5 8 4 7 6 3 9 9 11 6 4 7 11 6 12 13 0 1 1 0 273
GEORGIA   3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 1 3 2 3 3 5 5 6 19 16 13 12 10 9 13 19 16 7 13 14 13 13 16 14 8 2 1 0 260
HAWAII   0 0 0 0 0 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 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7
IDAHO   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 3 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 11
ILLINOIS   128 13 20 21 23 22 14 20 23 19 21 33 36 37 21 31 29 35 32 27 25 23 34 25 24 29 24 39 27 29 27 32 29 19 29 27 21 16 16 26 20 19 8 1 0 1 1165
INDIANA   65 3 8 7 12 10 14 9 15 10 12 14 14 7 6 12 30 9 15 25 18 16 23 20 15 17 9 13 8 9 18 13 8 7 7 6 3 6 10 5 5 9 8 0 0 0 539
IOWA   2 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 4 3 2 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 49
KANSAS   15 4 1 4 4 4 3 4 12 4 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 6 8 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 92
KENTUCKY   16 3 13 6 7 4 2 4 4 2 3 2 6 2 3 5 2 1 0 7 2 3 5 4 3 2 4 5 3 6 2 2 2 1 7 3 4 4 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 153
LOUISIANA   29 8 7 6 8 5 9 8 3 5 6 3 7 7 7 3 6 4 4 12 5 8 11 16 7 18 18 14 7 6 7 3 8 6 9 7 6 14 5 7 7 2 1 2 2 0 333
MAINE   0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 13
MARYLAND   50 12 5 3 11 11 9 6 13 8 6 4 4 6 7 4 3 8 6 7 5 4 5 7 8 5 10 8 7 10 11 11 31 7 13 15 4 7 4 13 3 4 1 0 0 0 365
MASSACHUSETTS   164 19 23 23 20 19 16 9 14 11 17 17 14 17 13 18 15 24 20 25 17 31 26 27 20 20 33 23 21 19 25 17 25 27 33 25 31 22 28 26 27 36 18 7 3 0 1080
MICHIGAN   164 40 31 31 40 36 50 46 37 23 32 29 39 26 42 33 29 41 45 31 42 46 54 49 50 55 61 52 61 48 37 61 58 41 49 45 49 49 44 47 37 30 13 4 0 0 1918
MINNESOTA   67 7 17 21 20 17 17 15 13 10 14 9 11 11 5 12 16 11 14 5 13 12 16 12 18 14 20 18 20 29 36 31 39 31 37 31 26 29 30 32 29 32 11 5 2 0 875
MISSISSIPPI   0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 4 2 0 1 1 1 1 2 5 0 1 1 3 2 2 1 3 1 0 0 43
MISSOURI   44 7 9 5 3 10 6 5 5 6 7 10 4 9 4 9 10 11 3 5 9 3 5 3 1 1 2 5 3 3 4 3 2 3 5 9 3 4 6 3 1 1 2 4 0 0 248
MONTANA   1 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7
NEBRASKA   1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11
NEVADA   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 6
NEW HAMPSHIRE   0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 2 2 5 5 2 4 1 0 0 0 36
NEW JERSEY   439 90 95 98 77 64 89 88 73 52 61 57 61 56 53 52 65 63 63 77 68 60 71 75 87 77 125 109 76 84 66 68 73 59 60 46 56 55 25 53 37 22 16 5 4 0 3242
NEW MEXICO   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 4 2 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 36
NEW YORK   234 35 51 58 48 49 61 60 81 48 64 57 60 56 47 49 49 52 56 33 51 46 55 52 54 76 73 85 80 72 61 59 68 54 61 51 58 50 78 63 37 29 33 8 1 0 2598
NORTH CAROLINA   57 25 26 22 15 11 12 8 11 9 5 5 7 9 6 5 5 6 2 2 0 5 5 5 7 6 6 10 13 8 11 12 32 16 28 20 20 17 27 20 18 8 11 3 3 0 548
NORTH DAKOTA   0 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 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
OHIO   224 45 41 51 69 54 74 51 67 63 69 89 89 66 75 86 79 46 61 90 60 56 91 70 68 70 68 67 71 64 61 44 69 64 77 56 83 74 77 85 77 45 35 14 6 0 3029
OKLAHOMA   208 63 37 35 28 23 36 31 38 33 41 32 38 43 25 22 26 32 39 47 35 33 16 9 14 15 14 41 36 40 34 20 23 5 12 18 23 16 11 10 17 16 6 1 1 0 1334
OREGON   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 0 2 1 0 3 6 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 42
PENNSYLVANIA   283 51 39 74 80 40 50 55 49 40 44 36 45 42 41 68 40 44 36 52 45 33 47 48 38 39 49 56 73 56 82 82 97 73 65 70 78 57 69 94 66 38 26 11 4 0 2595
RHODE ISLAND   7 0 1 2 1 3 2 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 7 6 5 6 4 4 1 4 2 2 4 2 3 1 4 7 5 3 3 0 0 0 96
SOUTH CAROLINA   8 1 1 4 2 3 3 1 6 0 3 0 1 4 3 1 1 8 12 6 3 3 2 2 3 2 10 7 4 5 6 4 6 8 5 5 5 7 7 9 13 8 3 1 0 0 187
SOUTH DAKOTA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 2
TENNESSEE   129 10 8 13 14 13 9 6 4 3 10 4 13 12 13 9 13 8 16 7 24 18 18 12 20 30 30 28 21 21 23 24 26 13 16 27 14 24 19 9 15 13 7 6 1 0 761
TEXAS   116 31 37 25 21 31 18 28 24 15 34 22 36 37 29 46 28 43 55 42 49 81 86 63 70 96 101 138 83 111 125 89 139 79 95 78 100 119 90 90 120 67 63 19 9 0 2866
UTAH   2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 1 1 1 2 0 2 1 2 3 3 3 0 4 4 2 2 1 3 1 5 2 2 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 53
VERMONT   2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 17
VIRGINIA   32 7 11 9 6 11 16 10 14 9 5 5 5 4 7 10 11 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 7 17 22 20 20 18 15 19 15 11 15 13 12 6 13 16 8 13 8 4 2 1 483
WASHINGTON   5 0 3 5 1 1 0 0 5 4 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 2 0 2 2 6 1 3 0 2 4 6 2 4 3 6 4 3 5 4 7 4 2 4 0 0 104
WEST VIRGINIA   153 22 11 11 11 9 6 12 5 9 8 8 8 15 8 14 13 15 8 4 10 9 10 12 7 9 14 17 11 12 16 16 16 28 21 20 18 23 15 9 14 10 6 0 0 0 662
WISCONSIN   9 2 0 0 5 1 4 4 0 3 2 1 0 3 0 2 2 4 3 5 2 3 5 4 6 9 4 6 4 3 2 10 10 8 20 8 11 16 15 8 6 4 1 1 0 0 208
WYOMING   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA   2 1 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 19
PUERTO RICO   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
JAPAN   115 50 50 62 71 100 111 124 126 100 140 163 150 120 143 144 168 206 190 182 188 218 245 266 283 374 449 425 405 396 392 380 441 377 404 357 379 436 458 503 357 218 116 32 10 2 10624
GERMANY   366 88 110 95 112 134 131 102 107 109 111 123 152 126 139 152 109 116 106 117 107 118 128 163 167 188 221 199 183 186 173 194 292 215 257 186 230 189 237 280 203 105 32 13 3 1 6867
FRANCE   44 17 20 27 31 34 41 32 29 27 37 32 31 23 35 28 33 30 28 23 19 21 31 35 38 55 50 52 50 38 32 36 51 43 49 39 33 50 64 62 50 25 7 6 2 0 1531
UNITED KINGDOM   139 23 29 49 37 44 39 46 38 42 36 48 45 37 22 22 27 26 35 33 19 17 24 17 22 34 36 45 24 20 22 28 46 28 23 32 33 34 27 42 13 20 4 6 1 0 1424
ITALY   130 14 14 38 24 29 26 30 20 35 23 22 17 14 19 17 18 21 15 8 16 10 11 23 29 30 42 30 33 42 32 33 55 42 54 34 39 34 38 47 35 17 9 3 0 0 1264
NETHERLANDS   48 10 13 14 13 18 17 9 14 9 9 10 6 11 8 14 8 17 16 16 12 7 9 25 35 34 49 37 35 41 22 22 23 25 37 26 32 29 53 31 15 13 5 0 2 0 888
SWITZERLAND   57 16 15 12 11 15 20 16 19 13 25 22 12 13 16 25 16 15 21 11 8 21 13 14 24 23 11 15 13 13 11 15 15 20 31 13 24 13 23 25 12 6 4 3 1 0 731
CANADA   21 6 7 7 8 13 7 4 8 8 5 7 5 3 8 5 8 5 5 4 7 4 5 13 7 17 11 22 13 16 23 30 20 16 16 18 31 31 31 36 30 17 14 2 1 0 565
BELGIUM   21 5 6 10 10 10 11 4 8 11 8 7 15 8 6 17 6 4 5 4 2 4 7 3 9 11 11 12 16 7 19 20 18 19 23 32 28 34 21 35 26 16 4 5 2 0 551
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 7 4 10 9 12 16 16 18 21 31 32 34 40 51 56 26 28 9 2 0 428
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 3 4 11 11 3 19 7 20 17 15 17 14 15 16 6 5 6 3 0 197
AUSTRIA   2 0 2 0 5 2 3 1 2 2 1 0 2 2 4 3 2 4 0 5 3 4 2 5 5 6 2 11 10 3 4 3 5 5 4 5 7 8 6 8 5 4 0 0 0 0 146
FINLAND   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 6 1 5 1 3 7 9 4 10 10 10 12 13 12 12 18 3 2 1 1 1 0 143
AUSTRALIA   2 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 5 6 6 1 2 3 5 4 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 0 3 0 2 2 6 1 6 5 7 5 11 6 6 8 4 4 0 0 1 0 126
U.S.S.R.   1 3 3 0 3 3 4 7 4 5 8 8 7 9 9 13 4 9 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 105
INDIA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 3 1 0 3 0 1 0 4 1 1 2 4 8 1 4 6 7 12 15 11 7 1 0 0 95
CZECHOSLOVAKIA   5 0 3 0 3 4 3 1 3 6 5 7 16 7 2 4 1 2 0 2 0 1 3 5 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 87
SWEDEN   6 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 4 2 0 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 2 3 4 0 2 3 3 1 5 3 4 7 2 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 73
ISRAEL   4 1 2 2 1 3 0 2 2 3 2 4 1 2 0 2 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 2 3 0 2 3 1 0 4 3 4 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 66
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 5 8 6 4 7 9 8 2 0 0 59
IRELAND   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 38
NORWAY   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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 7 2 8 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 37
RUSSIAN FEDERATION   0 0 0 0 0 0 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 4 4 7 5 2 1 1 1 2 5 0 0 0 33
SAUDI ARABIA   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 27
SPAIN   0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 4 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 27
BRAZIL   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 18
DENMARK   1 0 2 1 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 1 2 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 17
SOUTH AFRICA   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 15
SINGAPORE   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 13
POLAND   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
HUNGARY   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
LIECHTENSTEIN   0 0 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 2 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 11
CHINA,HONG KONG 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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 9
GREECE   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7
LUXEMBOURG   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 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 7
MEXICO   1 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 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6
TURKEY   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5
BULGARIA   0 0 0 0 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
NEW ZEALAND   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
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 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
GUATEMALA   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 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
INDONESIA   0 1 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 2
VENEZUELA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
COLOMBIA   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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
PERU   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 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
THE BAHAMAS   0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
COSTA RICA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
CROATIA   0 0 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
EGYPT   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
MALI   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MOROCCO   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 0 0 0 0 1
UKRAINE   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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
ARGENTINA   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 1
LEBANON   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 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   3305 616 589 623 631 542 613 580 608 465 554 558 597 545 513 586 551 550 582 604 567 587 683 638 660 739 871 947 789 789 799 757 964 706 859 725 795 758 792 822 753 546 341 113 43 1 31256
U.S. GOVERNMENT   36 10 8 15 14 16 13 16 16 15 7 14 18 11 12 14 16 7 19 19 13 14 15 14 11 14 22 24 19 30 16 18 22 16 9 12 15 13 10 15 7 12 6 2 2 1 641
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   72 18 20 28 16 18 23 31 32 17 15 12 16 20 27 14 26 21 13 14 17 17 15 12 19 20 19 19 26 24 20 20 28 17 26 19 17 23 22 17 15 18 10 3 0 0 884
FOREIGN CORPORATION   807 212 246 288 296 365 380 340 347 335 376 399 420 348 368 391 371 410 384 374 369 398 447 528 559 717 825 773 733 727 738 720 972 781 905 773 864 906 996 1123 821 465 237 86 25 3 23943
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 3 6 4 5 8 6 6 9 9 4 6 2 7 3 3 5 2 3 3 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 115
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   38 3 9 13 17 18 17 23 20 27 17 19 13 19 11 20 11 13 9 4 7 3 6 14 9 11 16 17 21 14 8 12 15 17 14 11 24 20 20 19 9 5 3 1 0 0 607

Patenting Trends in the United States
Fractional Counts
PARTS A1, A2
Granted: 01/01/1963 - 12/31/2008
A Patent Technology Monitoring Team Report


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