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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
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
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 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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   17 33 75 93 104 107 162 226 437 501 528 607 581 585 571 678 531 807 1062 955 1020 1305 1450 1699 2025 2004 2734 2580 2704 2778 3000 2821 2792 2966 2834 3866 3779 3899 4221 4794 5279 5185 4696 5750 5352 5642 95835
-- 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   17 33 75 93 104 107 162 226 437 501 528 607 581 585 571 678 531 807 1062 955 1020 1305 1450 1699 2025 2004 2734 2580 2704 2778 3000 2821 2792 2966 2834 3866 3779 3899 4221 4794 5279 5185 4696 5750 5352 5642 95835
JAPAN   17 33 74 91 100 102 159 224 433 497 525 604 581 580 563 671 531 800 1053 946 1012 1293 1435 1675 1999 1966 2674 2526 2631 2686 2870 2684 2617 2756 2597 3392 3285 3353 3640 4077 4455 4262 3809 4646 4221 4327 85472
KOREA, SOUTH   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 3 2 5 4 8 19 26 55 50 81 109 132 264 250 247 266 312 326 397 372 487 507 613 4547
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 4 4 8 4 5 12 10 19 24 41 34 44 50 60 73 79 76 93 172 204 241 253 305 366 379 367 456 417 418 4226
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 5 8 7 8 4 2 6 4 8 2 9 9 5 7 11 18 34 28 64 71 135 457
SINGAPORE   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 0 2 0 0 1 4 3 7 9 4 17 17 33 27 39 52 46 44 29 41 46 423
INDIA   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 7 9 6 9 11 30 36 35 33 48 53 303
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 4 1 0 3 1 5 1 2 4 3 0 7 6 1 2 4 2 2 3 9 12 18 20 20 27 24 27 31 250
MALAYSIA   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 4 13 9 7 11 10 16 17 101
PHILIPPINES   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 3 1 20
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 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 8 2 1 1 0 0 1 19
INDONESIA   0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 17

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 0 4 7 6 11 5 8 16 15 11 21 7 11 6 8 4 7 4 4 4 6 6 4 11 14 22 18 14 11 27 29 15 41 40 38 46 67 65 100 115 141 127 137 150 171 1575
U.S. GOVERNMENT   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 15
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   7 19 51 70 82 76 130 184 375 438 461 535 532 534 523 624 495 755 1006 907 973 1243 1381 1635 1931 1904 2590 2448 2593 2663 2864 2690 2650 2812 2684 3669 3577 3679 4005 4507 4966 4869 4409 5442 5049 5339 90376
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 5 3 7 5 2 9 8 8 8 10 12 16 18 12 11 5 16 6 10 8 4 4 2 7 6 6 2 6 1 0 233
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   9 14 19 16 15 17 24 29 46 47 56 49 41 39 41 44 26 42 45 39 40 46 55 51 75 76 110 97 79 92 98 96 109 107 99 151 150 149 148 179 191 169 158 165 149 131 3628

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 3345. NAVIGATIONAL, MEASURING, ELECTROMEDICAL, AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS

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   251 96 106 115 186 276 338 430 526 469 554 600 532 668 774 903 953 1213 1187 1380 1217 1550 1820 1851 2191 2590 2812 2923 3006 2906 2758 3176 3462 3841 4191 4261 4383 5292 5845 5975 5773 5333 4050 2385 670 17 95835
-- 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   251 96 106 115 186 276 338 430 526 469 554 600 532 668 774 903 953 1213 1187 1380 1217 1550 1820 1851 2191 2590 2812 2923 3006 2906 2758 3176 3462 3841 4191 4261 4383 5292 5845 5975 5773 5333 4050 2385 670 17 95835
JAPAN   247 89 105 112 185 273 335 427 522 467 554 597 523 663 770 898 946 1199 1180 1364 1206 1534 1799 1821 2142 2533 2752 2821 2889 2768 2601 2947 3195 3360 3709 3630 3718 4522 4987 4868 4609 4114 3195 1752 531 13 85472
KOREA, SOUTH   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 3 9 16 30 47 56 63 130 145 277 247 287 273 335 368 476 542 564 352 267 40 0 4547
TAIWAN   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2 2 5 9 3 10 5 8 13 19 33 35 36 53 55 65 82 76 99 172 190 275 312 311 337 436 447 482 344 237 64 3 4226
CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF   0 1 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 5 7 8 4 9 3 5 5 6 7 6 10 4 10 15 34 45 38 60 67 81 16 1 457
SINGAPORE   0 1 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 1 2 5 5 8 9 16 20 36 34 53 50 49 47 26 37 14 6 0 423
INDIA   1 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 4 2 4 9 11 12 22 30 49 50 37 27 21 4 0 303
CHINA,HONG KONG S.A.R.   1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 4 3 1 2 1 3 4 1 5 4 5 0 4 3 3 5 10 13 16 25 35 29 31 15 9 3 0 250
MALAYSIA   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 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 9 8 10 11 10 16 12 4 5 0 101
PHILIPPINES   0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 20
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 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 10 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 19
INDONESIA   1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 17

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   17 7 7 7 8 6 10 16 9 16 9 5 7 11 7 6 4 5 4 8 3 4 8 23 9 17 17 11 20 39 20 33 61 34 44 74 74 108 154 148 141 146 120 81 17 0 1575
U.S. GOVERNMENT   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 15
U.S. INDIVIDUAL   0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 8
FOREIGN CORPORATION   171 77 80 87 145 243 297 372 464 406 503 558 489 608 716 855 889 1155 1131 1321 1167 1487 1746 1761 2071 2471 2685 2798 2880 2764 2628 2994 3275 3658 3992 4030 4132 4978 5485 5608 5445 5025 3824 2248 640 17 90376
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT   2 2 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 4 5 5 5 8 9 7 5 7 4 12 16 15 14 15 10 7 12 11 10 5 0 6 13 4 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 233
FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL   60 10 18 20 28 26 31 41 53 45 42 35 36 46 47 36 54 48 43 42 40 53 59 63 99 85 95 100 91 92 101 136 114 139 148 157 171 192 201 218 180 159 106 55 13 0 3628

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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