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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables
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Utility patents held by non-U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries), by technology class and subclass
 Utility patents
Non-U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries) and technology     All     Technology
class		 Technology
subclass
 Number
Total utility patents held by Non-U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries) 3,051           
     Plant Technologies       652      
          Nutrition, etc            126
          Agronomic applications            346
          Physical structure and plant function            94
          Plant organisms, cultivars, germplasm            69
          Male sterility/self-incompatability            76
          Other plant technologies            137
     Patented Organisms, non-plant       517      
          Transformed agricultural animals            3
          Other transgenic animals            3
          Microorganisms            292
          Fungi            262
     Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants       670      
          Plant growth regulators            583
          Timing and control of gene expression            103
     Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals       148      
          Animal growth regulators            88
          Enzymes            1
          Timing and control of gene expression            51
          Animal reproduction            24
     Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals       614      
          Biotechnology pest regulation            133
          Microorganisms used for biological control            127
          Microorganisms used for other plant protection purposes            127
          Fertilizer            11
          Food and food additives from biotechnology            340
     Pharmaceuticals       275      
          Veterinary pharmaceuticals            195
          Human pharmaceuticals            14
          Antibodies            95
     Genetic Transformation       842      
          Transformation platforms            229
          Mutagenesis            25
          Genetic markers            101
          Selectable marker techniques            80
          Culture growth, cell differentiation, etc.            329
          Transformation stability/heritability            7
          Diagnostic techniques            250
     Metabolic Pathways and Biologic Processes, DNA-Scale       256      
          Recombination systems (CRELOX, FLP recombinase)            7
          RNA stability            2
          Protein stability            13
          Protein localization            3
          Transcription factor            15
          Transcriptional regulator            83
          Post-transcriptional regulation            21
          Receptor            43
          T-DNA (plant only)            28
          Activation tagging            1
          Gene tagging            10
          Post-translational modification            72
     Genomics       81      
          Genome or EST sequencing            7
          High-throughput DNA sequencing            3
          Proteomics (including gene expression systems)            32
          Protein sequencing            5
          Subtractive hybridization            3
          Bioinformatics: DNA and protein sequence analysis            32
          Bioinformatics: data storage and manipulation            1
     Unclassified       513      
Note: Technology classifications are not mutually exclusive.
Date created: 5/27/2004 12:35:19 PM

 
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