# Links to USPTO Patent Statistics

Patent statistics and links to patent statistics may be found in various areas of the USPTO Web Site. Links to some of those areas are provided below:

## General Patent Statistics

Calendar Year (CY) Patent Statistics (CY: January 1 through December 31)
  General calendar year patent statistics are available at the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/reports.htm .

Fiscal Year (FY) Workload Patent Statistics (FY: October 1 through September 30)
  General fiscal year workload patent statistics are contained in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .

Four Office Statistical Reports (formerly the Trilateral Statistical Reports)
  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) work together to produce an annual Four Office Statistical Report that profiles patenting activity in the four regions. These reports may be accessed from the Trilateral Web Site, available at the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/tws/index.html .

Five Intellectual Property Office Statistical Reports
  The Five IP Offices (IP5) is the name given to a forum of the five largest intellectual property offices in the world that is being set up to improve the efficiency of the examination process for patents worldwide. The members of IP5 are: the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Various statistics that describe the patenting activity in these five offices may be accessed from the IP5 Web Site, available at the following web page: http://www.fiveipoffices.org/index.html .

Patent Statistics From Other Intellectual Property Offices
  For statistics profiling patenting activity at intellectual property offices outside the United States, the web sites of those offices should be consulted. Please note that patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provide patent protection only within the United States. Links to other intellectual property offices and other related sites of possible interest may be viewed at the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/faq/other.jsp . See, in particular, the link on this page labeled, "World Intellectual Property Organization's Directory of Intellectual Property Offices", for links to other intellectual property offices.

## Other Patent Statistics

Accelerated Examination
  Accelerated patent examination information and statistics may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/file/accelerated/index.jsp . In particular, see the link on the web page labeled, "Accelerated Examination Statistics ".

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Statistics
  Several sets of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences fiscal year workload statistics may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/appeal/index.jsp . In particular, see the links in the web page section titled, "Board Statistics".
  Some additional selected statistics relating to Fiscal Year 2007 work performed by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences may be viewed on the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/exam/presentation/ca_bar_0607.jsp .

Business Method-Related Arts (Class 705)
  General fiscal year workload statistics relating to patenting activity in Class 705 (business method-related arts) may be viewed at the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/methods/applicationfiling.jsp .
  A short article in "USPTO Today" discussed fiscal year 2001 patenting activity in Class 705. The article may be viewed on the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/pbmethod/fy2001strport.html .

Examiner Staffing
  General fiscal year workload statistics relating to patent examiner staffing may be viewed in workload table 28 of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports and workload tables may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .
  Additional fiscal year workload statistics relating to patent examiner staffing may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/index.jsp . See, in particular, the link to the "USPTO Data Visualization Center -- Patents Dashboard", which contains some examiner staffing statistics.

Green Technologies
  General information and fiscal year workload statistics relating to patenting activity in Green Technologies may be viewed at the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/green_tech.jsp . See, in particular, the links on this page under the section titled, "Statistics".

Maintenance Fees
  Selected USPTO maintenance fee payment statistics are available in Chapter 4 of the Four Office Statistical Report (see entry, above).
  Detailed information relating to patent maintenance fee payments for each patent subject to the fees is contained in a (very large) maintenance fee events file that can be downloaded from the following web page: https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/ .

Operational and Workload Statistics
  General fiscal year operational and workload patent statistics are contained in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .
  Some fiscal year patent operational and workload statistics that relate to examiner staffing, patent pendency, quality of product, and the patent application backlog also are presented on web pages that may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/index.jsp . See, in particular, the link to the "USPTO Data Visualization Center -- Patents Dashboard", which contains various related statistics.
  Additional fiscal year operational and workload patent statistics may be contained in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents relating to the USPTO Strategic Plan, accessible from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/index.jsp , and to USPTO plans and budgets, accessible from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/budget/index.jsp .

Pendency
  General fiscal year workload statistics relating to patent pendency (usually considered as the length of time between patent application filing and the issue of the patent or the abandonment of the application) may be viewed in workload tables 1 and 4 of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports and workload tables may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .
  Additional fiscal year workload statistics relating to patent pendency may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/index.jsp . See, in particular, the link to the "USPTO Data Visualization Center -- Patents Dashboard", which contains various related pendency statistics.

Pending Applications
  General fiscal year workload statistics relating to the quantity of pending patent applications may be viewed in workload tables 3 and 5 of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports and workload tables may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .
  Additional fiscal year workload statistics relating to pending applications may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/index.jsp . See, in particular, the link to the "USPTO Data Visualization Center -- Patents Dashboard", which contains various related statistics.
  A table containing a fiscal year 2009 inventory count of patent applications by examination technology center may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/appbacklog.jsp .

Prioritized (Track 1) Examination
  Very general prioritized examination statistics and information may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/patents.jsp#heading-5 .

Term Extensions
  Detail information relating to patents receiving term extensions under 35 USC § 155 and 35 USC § 156 may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/terms/index.jsp .

Reexamination
  General fiscal year workload statistics relating to patent reexamination activity may be viewed in workload tables 13A and 13B of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Annual Reports / Performance and Accountability Reports. Those reports and workload tables may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/ann_rpt_intermed.htm .
  Detailed fiscal year workload statistics and information relating to patent reexamination activity may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information.jsp .
  A reexamination authority listing of all Reexamination Certificates for U.S. patent documents (including the following data fields: Document Number, Publication Date, and a code describing the Kind of Document) may be accessed from the following web page: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/authority/reexam/reexamcertificate.jsp .

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