United States Patent and Trademark Office Patenting Statistics 2013

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CA 8,915 Patents GB 8,457 Patents DE 20,230 Patents FR 9,006 Patents IT 3,353 Patents MX 301 Patents IN 3,277 Patents SG 1,606 Patents CN 8,718 Patents TW 14,289 Patents SE 3,668 Patents RU 580 Patents KR 16,546 Patents JP 57,633 Patents

US 163,979 Patents

NL 4,658 Patents

BR 383 Patents

SA 287 Patents

AU 2,354 Patents

PATENT

Top Patentees 303,651 Patents Granted in 2013 in 2013

6817 5209 3896 3229 3073 3045 2729 2337 2118 2161 1960 1879 1824 1761 1683 1655 1557 1543 1538 1444 1470 1470 1446 1430 1391 1293 1281 1232

IBM SAMSUNG CANON SONY MICROSOFT PANASONIC TOSHIBA HON HAI QUALCOMM LG APPLE GOOGLE FUJITSU GENERAL ELECTRIC GM AT&T SEIKO RICOH BLACKBERRY HITACHI HP INTEL SIEMENS HEWLETT PACKARD TOYOTA SHARP SAMSUNG DISPLAY HONDA MOTOR

Utility: 278,513

91.7% Utility Patents 7.7% Design Patents

Design: 23,478

<1% Plant Patents <1% ReIssue Patents

Plant: 847 Reissue: 799 Withdrawn: 645

<1% Withdrawn
*14 Total SIRs

347,142 Applications Published in 2013

Annual Patenting Trends
26,379 more patents granted in 2013 than in 2012. A jump of 9.5 percent!

186,928

181,241

157,699

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244,642

248,069 2011

277,272 2012

Shunpei Yamazaki Lowell L. Wood, Jr Roderick A. Hyde Edward K.Y. Jung Bartley K. Andre Jonathan P. Ive Daniel J. Coster Christopher J. Stringer Duncan Robert Kerr Richard P. Howarth

Top Inventors 2013

360 219 155 137 127 127 125 124 123 120

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2013 Median Pendency was 3.08 Years

The average pendency in 2013 remained almost identical to 2008, but the number of patents granted is up by over 55%
No. Patents
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Pendency (in years) US Utility Patents Granted in 2013

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Top University Patents

UNIV CALIFORNIA MIT UNIV TSINGHUA STANFORD UNIV TEXAS UNIV WISCONSIN NAT TAIWAN UNIV CAL TECH UNIV WASHINGTON KAIST UNIV MICHIGAN GEORGIA TECH UNIV PENNSYLVANIA UNIV COLUMBIA UNIV ILLINOIS NAT TSING HUA UNIV 465 318 202 193 182 164 158 155 133 107 107 106 106 105 103 101

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Whats on the menu? "Anatabine citrate." User interface menus were Shortest Claim 1 in 2013 the most popular class of design patents in 2013, overtaking last years favorite, lightbulbs.

By the Numbers (Some patents that stood out in 2013)

404 Claims

Number of Claims in patent US8401902 by Function Media.

525 Members

Largest Patent Family in 2013, by Qualcomm Inc.

Top Design Patent Classes

U.I. MENUS SMART PHONES (WITH DISPLAY) VEHICLE LAMPS TELEPHONE HANDSETS ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS CONNECTORS GRAPHIC U.I. APPAREL (SHOES) AUTO WHEELS 400 207 194 184 156 141 135 133 130

10,386 Words

834,641 Words

Number of words in Claim 1 of patent US US8558011.

Number of words Patent US8431139 (would take about 3 weeks for average reader to read).

6,916 Days Pendency

Filed in 1994 US8357513 took almost 19 years to grant!

36 Inventors

Number of inventors SAP named on patent US8606723.

3,594 Citations

Number of Reverse Citations by patent US8612159!

39 Citations

Number of Forward Citations earned by patent USD673561!

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Percent of Total

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