| Table 6-22 |
| ICT and biotechnology patents share of total USPTO and EPO patents granted: Selected years, 1993–2006 |
| |
| |
| Industry/agency |
|
1993 |
|
1996 |
|
2000 |
|
2003 |
|
2005 |
|
2006 |
| |
| ICT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| EPO |
|
23.6 |
|
28.1 |
|
27.3 |
|
25.3 |
|
27.2 |
|
29.2 |
| USPTO |
|
26.3 |
|
31.6 |
|
34.9 |
|
39.9 |
|
45.6 |
|
49.3 |
| Biotechnology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| EPO |
|
3.2 |
|
2.9 |
|
3.1 |
|
2.9 |
|
3.9 |
|
4.6 |
| USPTO |
|
2.0 |
|
2.8 |
|
3.6 |
|
3.1 |
|
2.9 |
|
3.3 |
| |
EPO = European Patent Office; ICT = information and communications technology; USPTO = U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
NOTES: ICT includes telecommunications, consumer electronics, computers and office machinery, and other ICT as defined by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Biotechnology defined by OECD. Patent counts on fractional-count basis. For patent grants with multiple inventors from different countries, each country receives fractional credit based on proportion of its participating inventors.
SOURCES: OECD, Patent database, http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/default.aspx?DatasetCode=PATS_IPC, accessed 15 February 2007. See appendix tables 6-39, 6-40, and 6-43 to 6-45. Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 |
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