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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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