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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
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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
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 3251. BASIC 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   58 108 131 160 232 215 313 326 360 647 497 666 758 817 634 573 403 576 651 575 557 633 722 680 738 773 1002 1103 1104 1170 1289 1122 1073 974 1029 1327 1333 1147 1271 1338 1201 1114 948 1191 1118 1201 35858
-- 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   58 108 131 160 232 215 313 326 360 647 497 666 758 817 634 573 403 576 651 575 557 633 722 680 738 773 1002 1103 1104 1170 1289 1122 1073 974 1029 1327 1333 1147 1271 1338 1201 1114 948 1191 1118 1201 35858
JAPAN   54 108 128 159 230 207 304 318 355 635 483 657 753 806 630 563 396 571 643 570 545 626 710 675 725 763 983 1068 1075 1124 1241 1073 997 890 934 1201 1164 971 1068 1064 948 847 721 884 818 868 32553
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 5 5 4 1 4 2 6 7 11 22 17 17 37 47 37 52 82 79 93 104 98 78 79 106 106 118 1227
INDIA   0 0 2 1 1 4 8 6 4 8 10 6 3 8 1 6 6 2 2 1 4 1 3 4 3 3 2 11 8 8 6 5 10 10 16 30 34 40 47 96 93 99 78 99 81 95 965
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 3 3 3 1 5 0 2 1 6 9 6 12 12 20 20 23 28 22 37 33 49 45 33 48 38 50 52 66 632
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 7 3 3 11 4 6 4 11 14 9 20 13 22 23 29 16 26 40 31 308
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 5 0 0 4 2 9 8 14 11 14 80
SINGAPORE   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 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 3 3 8 7 6 41
MALAYSIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 3 2 3 17
PHILIPPINES   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
INDONESIA   0 0 0 0 1 3 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 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 12
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 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6
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 0 3 3 10 6 11 9 7 15 5 22 8 19 8 15 10 16 17 8 4 10 5 6 12 7 12 14 12 14 12 6 14 7 11 25 24 25 37 26 28 20 14 22 27 29 618
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 20
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   48 94 111 142 201 195 281 284 330 595 460 612 727 775 609 535 374 534 599 532 521 603 694 641 698 738 955 1036 1053 1115 1242 1090 1040 944 978 1250 1253 1086 1191 1266 1134 1063 916 1134 1065 1146 33890
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 4 5 1 6 14 13 15 13 16 7 11 13 8 16 17 21 16 22 10 8 4 10 17 12 7 9 6 10 6 3 0 0 3 0 331
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   6 13 17 15 18 14 21 28 19 35 31 31 19 18 16 16 4 13 20 22 16 13 10 19 20 11 18 32 23 19 24 17 14 13 23 39 49 27 36 36 32 28 16 33 22 25 991

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 3251. BASIC 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   554 162 234 248 340 393 434 505 578 499 624 704 571 538 506 555 595 675 609 662 599 674 758 812 886 1031 1199 1101 1127 1150 1096 1151 1306 1194 1346 1184 1256 1476 1638 1707 1326 942 527 290 93 3 35858
-- 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   554 162 234 248 340 393 434 505 578 499 624 704 571 538 506 555 595 675 609 662 599 674 758 812 886 1031 1199 1101 1127 1150 1096 1151 1306 1194 1346 1184 1256 1476 1638 1707 1326 942 527 290 93 3 35858
JAPAN   545 159 228 242 328 385 429 495 568 492 618 692 568 532 498 547 589 672 597 651 592 665 751 796 872 1002 1168 1061 1084 1106 1027 1042 1196 1070 1201 992 1059 1206 1291 1294 968 651 376 182 64 2 32553
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 3 7 2 3 3 2 5 9 8 16 17 15 25 58 52 54 58 89 85 112 129 149 115 100 54 37 9 0 1227
INDIA   3 0 5 5 9 6 5 4 7 5 5 8 2 3 5 4 1 1 6 0 3 4 2 5 1 6 10 8 7 9 9 16 14 24 35 43 48 67 138 136 140 90 31 30 5 0 965
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 4 0 2 4 2 2 1 1 5 5 7 11 12 11 27 26 28 25 30 37 45 52 34 70 52 56 36 30 10 1 632
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 3 7 5 4 6 6 7 6 12 16 12 18 13 31 34 34 32 23 16 8 3 0 308
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 6 1 4 3 6 14 13 9 12 2 0 0 80
SINGAPORE   0 1 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 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 3 7 4 9 0 0 2 0 41
MALAYSIA   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 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 17
PHILIPPINES   4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
INDONESIA   1 2 1 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 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 12
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 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
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   14 6 7 7 13 3 9 10 7 19 11 18 5 7 15 14 19 12 4 8 6 4 12 9 12 18 10 15 6 11 12 12 18 17 27 25 30 39 27 26 16 27 19 9 3 0 618
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 20
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   477 144 209 220 301 360 406 465 545 448 592 670 549 513 468 522 538 629 574 629 567 640 723 773 841 972 1140 1049 1085 1107 1063 1112 1243 1127 1267 1113 1186 1390 1554 1643 1274 900 499 273 87 3 33890
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   1 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 2 3 4 3 6 12 10 15 12 13 12 14 11 7 15 14 23 18 16 13 9 8 6 14 19 8 7 7 11 4 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 331
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   60 11 17 20 21 29 15 30 26 28 17 12 14 11 11 9 23 22 18 13 11 17 16 14 19 18 31 20 23 22 13 20 31 30 43 39 33 34 53 31 32 15 9 8 2 0 991

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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