Data Sets

Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables

Technology links take you to the relevant patent list within the Detail table.

Utility patents by technology class and subclass
Technology class and subclass	Utility patents
	Number
Plant Technologies	2,976
Nutrition, etc	471
Agronomic applications	1,481
Physical structure and plant function	424
Plant organisms, cultivars, germplasm	764
Male sterility/self-incompatability	536
Other plant technologies	656
Patented Organisms, non-plant	1,446
Transformed agricultural animals	15
Cloned agricultural animals	16
Other transgenic animals	17
Microorganisms	816
Fungi	700
Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants	1,571
Plant growth regulators	1,316
Enzymes	12
Timing and control of gene expression	289
Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals	763
Animal growth regulators	421
Enzymes	8
Timing and control of gene expression	328
Animal reproduction	78
Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals	1,884
Biotechnology pest regulation	551
Microorganisms used for biological control	654
Microorganisms used for other plant protection purposes	432
Fertilizer	36
Food and food additives from biotechnology	746
Pharmaceuticals	1,277
Veterinary pharmaceuticals	769
Human pharmaceuticals	81
Antibodies	578
Genetic Transformation	4,129
Transformation platforms	928
Mutagenesis	153
Genetic markers	624
Selectable marker techniques	486
Culture growth, cell differentiation, etc.	1,632
Transformation stability/heritability	33
Diagnostic techniques	1,399
Metabolic Pathways and Biologic Processes, DNA-Scale	1,244
Recombination systems (CRELOX, FLP recombinase)	40
RNA stability	23
Protein stability	28
Protein localization	44
Transcription factor	102
Transcriptional regulator	319
Post-transcriptional regulation	109
Receptor	244
T-DNA (plant only)	143
Ds element, Ac element (plant only)	4
Spm element (plant only)	12
Activation tagging	33
Gene tagging	136
Post-translational modification	303
Genomics	329
DNA microarray	6
Genome or EST sequencing	43
High-throughput DNA sequencing	23
Proteomics (including gene expression systems)	76
Protein sequencing	27
RDA (representational difference analysis)	14
SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression)	3
Subtractive hybridization	44
Chromosome walking	3
Bioinformatics: DNA and protein sequence analysis	111
Bioinformatics: data storage and manipulation	8
Unclassified	1,730
Total utility patents	11,073
Note: Technology classifications are not mutually exclusive.

Date created:5/27/2004 11:33:32 AM

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Updated date: August 26, 2004