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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 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   74 105 153 232 251 232 280 297 260 399 213 264 232 287 245 282 204 222 237 209 222 234 194 184 218 277 351 354 388 402 403 328 300 306 368 418 331 365 480 414 425 399 247 320 235 178 13013
-- 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   74 105 153 232 251 232 280 297 260 399 213 264 232 287 245 282 204 222 237 209 222 234 194 184 218 277 351 354 388 402 403 328 300 306 368 418 331 365 480 414 425 399 247 320 235 178 13013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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   6 8 17 31 33 20 14 18 23 30 10 10 10 14 11 22 18 10 16 17 20 12 12 9 16 24 52 39 48 58 66 35 36 37 34 54 43 49 51 54 50 44 27 43 38 25 1301
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 0 0 1 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 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   65 94 131 188 209 204 261 269 224 354 194 243 212 269 228 254 182 211 216 187 198 214 178 167 196 248 288 308 331 331 327 290 260 265 325 359 279 310 419 353 366 350 214 273 190 152 11377
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 1 4 3 2 5 1 1 4 3 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   3 3 5 12 9 7 5 8 12 15 10 12 9 3 7 5 5 1 5 3 3 6 3 3 3 3 7 6 8 10 8 3 3 4 6 5 8 6 10 7 10 5 6 5 7 2 276

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 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   757 157 196 233 235 272 267 225 218 236 224 241 269 225 234 256 208 218 207 208 181 188 216 275 312 363 419 394 357 345 317 341 508 389 464 372 423 399 469 532 357 205 62 34 10 1 13013
-- 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   757 157 196 233 235 272 267 225 218 236 224 241 269 225 234 256 208 218 207 208 181 188 216 275 312 363 419 394 357 345 317 341 508 389 464 372 423 399 469 532 357 205 62 34 10 1 13013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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   89 9 14 14 20 24 16 13 10 7 7 16 15 11 18 19 14 20 13 19 8 9 16 20 39 37 53 56 55 53 33 42 54 34 64 52 53 45 63 52 43 41 13 5 4 0 1301
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FOREIGN CORPORATION   635 146 178 210 208 236 245 201 195 217 214 218 245 207 215 235 189 194 187 186 168 170 195 245 263 322 354 327 293 284 280 296 446 347 392 315 362 345 395 471 310 162 48 30 6 1 11377
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 4 3 2 4 3 3 4 1 1 5 1 4 1 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   29 3 5 7 7 10 6 12 13 12 4 7 8 7 2 2 5 4 3 1 4 3 2 7 6 4 11 7 9 5 3 3 6 8 9 4 8 10 11 10 5 3 1 0 0 0 276

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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