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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables

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Utility patents held by U.S. universities and nonprofits, by technology class and subclass
			Utility patents
U.S. universities and nonprofits and technology			All	Technology class	Technology subclass
			Number
Total utility patents held by U.S. universities and nonprofits			2,344
	Plant Technologies			437
		Nutrition, etc			114
		Agronomic applications			206
		Physical structure and plant function			65
		Plant organisms, cultivars, germplasm			15
		Male sterility/self-incompatability			28
		Other plant technologies			100
	Patented Organisms, non-plant			314
		Transformed agricultural animals			8
		Cloned agricultural animals			6
		Other transgenic animals			9
		Microorganisms			170
		Fungi			151
	Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants			231
		Plant growth regulators			168
		Enzymes			3
		Timing and control of gene expression			69
	Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals			213
		Animal growth regulators			91
		Enzymes			2
		Timing and control of gene expression			107
		Animal reproduction			27
	Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals			392
		Biotechnology pest regulation			91
		Microorganisms used for biological control			172
		Microorganisms used for other plant protection purposes			107
		Fertilizer			5
		Food and food additives from biotechnology			121
	Pharmaceuticals			374
		Veterinary pharmaceuticals			232
		Human pharmaceuticals			27
		Antibodies			177
	Genetic Transformation			893
		Transformation platforms			245
		Mutagenesis			42
		Genetic markers			93
		Selectable marker techniques			99
		Culture growth, cell differentiation, etc.			294
		Transformation stability/heritability			12
		Diagnostic techniques			332
	Metabolic Pathways and Biologic Processes, DNA-Scale			367
		Recombination systems (CRELOX, FLP recombinase)			13
		RNA stability			6
		Protein stability			5
		Protein localization			21
		Transcription factor			37
		Transcriptional regulator			88
		Post-transcriptional regulation			24
		Receptor			75
		T-DNA (plant only)			31
		Ds element, Ac element (plant only)			2
		Spm element (plant only)			5
		Activation tagging			7
		Gene tagging			42
		Post-translational modification			85
	Genomics			87
		DNA microarray			2
		Genome or EST sequencing			10
		High-throughput DNA sequencing			4
		Proteomics (including gene expression systems)			16
		Protein sequencing			9
		RDA (representational difference analysis)			7
		SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression)			2
		Subtractive hybridization			18
		Bioinformatics: DNA and protein sequence analysis			28
		Bioinformatics: data storage and manipulation			1
	Unclassified			426
Note: Technology classifications are not mutually exclusive.

Date created: 5/27/2004 12:22:16 PM

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Updated date: August 26, 2004