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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables

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Utility patents held by U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries), by technology class and subclass
 Utility patents
U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries) and technology     All     Technology
class
Technology
subclass
 Number
Total utility patents held by U.S. companies (excluding subsidiaries) 4,331           
     Plant Technologies       1,580      
          Nutrition, etc            164
          Agronomic applications            833
          Physical structure and plant function            179
          Plant organisms, cultivars, germplasm            663
          Male sterility/self-incompatability            393
          Other plant technologies            301
     Patented Organisms, non-plant       446      
          Transformed agricultural animals            2
          Cloned agricultural animals            8
          Other transgenic animals            2
          Microorganisms            272
          Fungi            198
     Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants       526      
          Plant growth regulators            440
          Enzymes            9
          Timing and control of gene expression            93
     Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals       307      
          Animal growth regulators            194
          Enzymes            4
          Timing and control of gene expression            115
          Animal reproduction            18
     Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals       625      
          Biotechnology pest regulation            260
          Microorganisms used for biological control            236
          Microorganisms used for other plant protection purposes            155
          Fertilizer            12
          Food and food additives from biotechnology            198
     Pharmaceuticals       411      
          Veterinary pharmaceuticals            217
          Human pharmaceuticals            28
          Antibodies            198
     Genetic Transformation       1,855      
          Transformation platforms            338
          Mutagenesis            72
          Genetic markers            361
          Selectable marker techniques            270
          Culture growth, cell differentiation, etc.            825
          Transformation stability/heritability            13
          Diagnostic techniques            585
     Metabolic Pathways and Biologic Processes, DNA-Scale       499      
          Recombination systems (CRELOX, FLP recombinase)            14
          RNA stability            10
          Protein stability            7
          Protein localization            15
          Transcription factor            35
          Transcriptional regulator            121
          Post-transcriptional regulation            54
          Receptor            108
          T-DNA (plant only)            71
          Ds element, Ac element (plant only)            1
          Spm element (plant only)            5
          Activation tagging            15
          Gene tagging            61
          Post-translational modification            123
     Genomics       110      
          DNA microarray            4
          Genome or EST sequencing            18
          High-throughput DNA sequencing            9
          Proteomics (including gene expression systems)            13
          Protein sequencing            8
          RDA (representational difference analysis)            6
          SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression)            1
          Subtractive hybridization            20
          Chromosome walking            3
          Bioinformatics: DNA and protein sequence analysis            41
          Bioinformatics: data storage and manipulation            2
     Unclassified       591      
Note: Technology classifications are not mutually exclusive.
Date created: 5/27/2004 12:10:22 PM

 

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