Skip menu navigation Home > Listing of Viewable PTMT Reports > NAICS Report Table of Contents > Table of Contents for This Set of Tables

U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

Patenting By NAICS Industry Classification
Breakout By Ownership Category
-- Whole Counts --

- this report was created with support from the National Science Foundation -

Count (*) of 1963 - 2012 Utility Patent Grants,
As Distributed By Calendar Year of Grant

- Explanation of Data -

Listing of Ownership Categories For 0.5 or More Utility Patents During the Period
Having Primary Classification Corresponding To

NAICS Classification 3342
Communications Equipment

( North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) classification is determined by
the primary U.S. Patent Classification System (USPC) patent classification and a USPC to NAICS concordance - see 'Explanation of Data' )
( this Whole Counts report allocates a patent to each matched industry -- see 'Explanation of Data' )

The following table displays Ownership Categories and WHOLE counts of utility patents associated with each of them; patents are distributed by year of patent grant.
Counts Sequence ID NAICS Classification Classification Title (U.S. or Foreign) Assignment ID Ownership Category PRE_1964 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 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (U.S. Ownership) 2 U.S. CORPORATION 651 677 1007 1051 909 800 1042 1313 1562 1373 1285 1256 1108 1049 1029 928 671 917 841 906 891 1030 1192 1393 1678 1453 1814 1706 1709 1705 2059 2357 2758 3402 3406 4821 5259 5563 5780 5897 5957 6883 6516 10045 8558 9123 10088 12601 13667 16708 176394
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (U.S. Ownership) 4 U.S. INDIVIDUAL 162 180 246 257 206 187 251 242 329 344 319 317 313 282 269 313 233 288 281 226 202 202 223 261 332 311 440 379 410 349 295 350 428 536 533 663 651 671 632 544 460 577 506 743 623 630 625 901 687 775 20184
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (U.S. Ownership) 6 U.S. GOVERNMENT 39 36 72 55 58 58 79 119 122 90 110 84 101 87 93 81 63 82 50 53 50 59 72 50 46 37 34 28 41 32 42 38 61 48 49 30 46 59 54 50 46 39 50 61 57 52 42 56 50 75 2986
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (U.S. Ownership)   -- Subtotal -- 852 893 1325 1363 1173 1045 1372 1674 2013 1807 1714 1657 1522 1418 1391 1322 967 1287 1172 1185 1143 1291 1487 1704 2056 1801 2288 2113 2160 2086 2396 2745 3247 3986 3988 5514 5956 6293 6466 6491 6463 7499 7072 10849 9238 9805 10755 13558 14404 17558 199564
 
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (Foreign Ownership) 3 FOREIGN CORPORATION 104 103 152 241 193 163 260 316 441 459 492 438 503 520 539 553 409 551 602 697 625 718 1098 1110 1536 1466 2026 1744 1775 1947 2066 2424 2646 3167 2942 4612 4829 4834 5061 5509 5807 6586 6230 9155 8278 9414 10291 13469 15347 19928 164376
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (Foreign Ownership) 5 FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL 22 30 42 36 31 35 45 52 79 82 82 68 74 66 74 47 43 77 96 87 79 54 81 95 108 99 155 128 126 112 107 95 127 136 147 195 198 206 201 211 168 170 180 268 225 189 287 300 250 324 6189
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (Foreign Ownership) 7 FOREIGN GOVERNMENT 3 1 6 2 6 2 4 6 10 2 2 6 12 5 11 12 4 17 18 16 10 20 18 17 17 11 20 27 26 20 24 14 9 10 10 10 11 1 4 4 2 5 7 6 4 3 5 11 14 24 509
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (Foreign Ownership)   -- Subtotal -- 129 134 200 279 230 200 309 374 530 543 576 512 589 591 624 612 456 645 716 800 714 792 1197 1222 1661 1576 2201 1899 1927 2079 2197 2533 2782 3313 3099 4817 5038 5041 5266 5724 5977 6761 6417 9429 8507 9606 10583 13780 15611 20276 171074
 
Whol / YoG 18 3342 Communications Equipment (ALL Ownership) A All Ownership Categories 981 1027 1525 1642 1403 1245 1681 2048 2543 2350 2290 2169 2111 2009 2015 1934 1423 1932 1888 1985 1857 2083 2684 2926 3717 3377 4489 4012 4087 4165 4593 5278 6029 7299 7087 10331 10994 11334 11732 12215 12440 14260 13489 20278 17745 19411 21338 27338 30015 37834 370638


PTMT Contacts

Questions regarding these reports should be directed to:

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Electronic Information Products Division - PTMT
P.O Box 1450
Alexandria VA 22313-1450

tel: (571) 272-5600
fax: (571) 273-0110
email: oeip@uspto.gov

address of PTMT pages at the USPTO Web Site: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/reports.htm
selected PTMT materials available for download at : http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/data/

Top

Skip menu navigation Home > Listing of Viewable PTMT Reports > NAICS Report Table of Contents > Table of Contents for This Set of Tables