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  1. <text id=93AC0051>
  2. <title>
  3. Patents & Trademarks:1980-92
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics         
  7.  Corporations                                        
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Almanac</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. Patents & Trademarks: 1980 - 1992
  13. [In thousands.]
  14. </hdr>
  15. <body>
  16. <table>
  17. <tblhdr><cell>Item<cell>1980<cell>1985<cell>1989<cell>1990<cell>1991<cell>1992
  18. <row><cell type=a>PATENT APPLICATIONS FILED<cell type=n>113.0<cell type=n>127.1<cell type=n>166.3<cell type=n>176.7<cell type=n>178.4<cell type=n>187.2
  19. <row><cell>Inventions<cell>104.3<cell>117.0<cell>152.8<cell>164.6<cell>164.3<cell>173.1
  20. <row><cell>Designs<cell>7.8<cell>9.6<cell>12.6<cell>11.3<cell>13.1<cell>13.1
  21. <row><cell>Botanical plants<cell>.2<cell>.2<cell>.4<cell>.4<cell>.4<cell>0.4
  22. <row><cell>Reissues<cell>.6<cell>.3<cell>.5<cell>.5<cell>.6<cell>0.6
  23. <row><cell>PATENTS ISSUED<cell>66.2<cell>77.3<cell>102.5<cell>99.2<cell>106.8<cell>107.4
  24. <row><cell>Inventions<cell>61.8<cell>71.7<cell>95.5<cell>90.4<cell>96.5<cell>97.4
  25. <row><cell>Individuals<cell>13.3<cell>12.9<cell>17.9<cell>17.3<cell>18.1<cell>17.3
  26. <row><cell>Corporations:<cell><cell><cell><cell><cell><cell>
  27. <row><cell>U.S.<cell>29.4<cell>31.3<cell>38.7<cell>36.1<cell>39.2<cell>40.3
  28. <row><cell>Foreign(1)<cell>18.2<cell>26.4<cell>38.0<cell>36.0<cell>38.1<cell>38.7
  29. <row><cell>U.S. Government<cell>1.0<cell>1.1<cell>.9<cell>1.0<cell>1.2<cell>1.2
  30. <row><cell>Designs<cell>3.9<cell>5.1<cell>6.1<cell>8.0<cell>9.6<cell>9.3
  31. <row><cell>Botanical plants<cell>.1<cell>.2<cell>.6<cell>.3<cell>.4<cell>0.3
  32. <row><cell>Reissues<cell>.3<cell>.3<cell>.3<cell>.4<cell>.3<cell>0.4
  33. <row><cell>Foreign country residents(3)<cell>24.7<cell>33.9<cell>47.9<cell>46.2<cell>49.0<cell>48.7
  34. <row><cell>CERTIFICATES OF TRADEMARKS ISSUED<cell>24.7<cell>71.7<cell>63.1<cell>60.8<cell>52.4<cell>86.8
  35. <row><cell>Trademarks<cell>18.9<cell>65.8<cell>55.3<cell>53.6<cell>46.6<cell>80.2
  36. <row><cell>Trademark renewals<cell>5.9<cell>5.9<cell>7.8<cell>7.2<cell>5.8<cell>6.6
  37. </table>
  38. <list style=hang>
  39. <item>Z= Less than 50.
  40. <item>NA=Not available.
  41. <item>1. Includes patents to foreign governments.
  42. <item>2. Abstracts of technical disclosure of patent published at request of applicant or owner. The practice called "Defensive Publications" began Nov. 1968, and ended July 1986. The current practice, called "Statutory Invention Registrations," began May 1985.
  43. <item>3. Includes patent inventions and patents for designs, botanical plants and reissues. Beginning 1986, also includes published applications.
  44. </list>
  45. <p>Source:U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
  46. </p>
  47. </body>
  48. </article>
  49. </text>
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