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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables
Utility patents by year and technology class
Year Unclassified Plant Technologies Patented Organisms, non-plant Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals Pharmaceuticals Genetic Transformation Metabolic Pathways and Biologic Processes, DNA-Scale Genomics All
 Number
1976 10 8 2 15 5 15 11 2 0 0 54
1977 9 15 2 34 5 15 13 4 0 0 75
1978 5 9 2 37 14 14 9 3 0 0 72
1979 9 10 1 31 6 14 23 2 0 0 76
1980 14 12 7 39 9 18 16 14 0 0 99
1981 12 16 6 40 5 21 18 12 1 0 107
1982 10 15 18 38 3 22 19 15 0 0 111
1983 12 15 17 25 3 35 10 18 0 0 100
1984 13 18 16 44 8 36 15 20 1 0 124
1985 23 27 19 34 6 40 27 35 3 0 156
1986 20 39 29 44 8 40 22 28 12 0 169
1987 47 51 35 42 21 52 29 64 7 3 242
1988 39 48 36 51 20 53 39 68 15 1 264
1989 49 56 58 58 14 69 39 112 25 3 318
1990 49 50 56 68 16 63 21 92 20 3 305
1991 58 93 67 67 33 107 49 139 23 7 417
1992 87 95 63 47 36 89 38 170 35 5 442
1993 87 97 81 45 38 122 68 179 47 13 493
1994 103 148 63 49 28 104 41 212 39 14 532
1995 120 143 73 47 31 90 52 208 55 15 542
1996 143 253 102 97 52 122 70 370 92 35 839
1997 146 236 143 103 88 135 148 436 153 47 1,028
1998 235 471 184 162 101 208 167 627 206 70 1,491
1999 229 543 191 193 108 196 176 639 268 55 1,582
2000 201 508 175 161 105 204 157 660 242 58 1,435
All 1,730 2,976 1,446 1,571 763 1,884 1,277 4,129 1,244 329 11,073
Note: Technology classifications are not mutually exclusive.
Date created:5/26/2004 7:56:19 AM

 
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