Number of Patents Issued to Marylanders Continues Recent Trends

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Brian Wm. Higgins

     U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) records show that for the period January through June 2008, the PTO granted 986 patents naming at least one Maryland resident as an inventor or joint inventor (based on residence addresses supplied by patent applicants to the PTO). That is a 1% decline in the number of patents issued to Maryland inventors for the same period in 2007 (993), and a 5% decline over 2006 numbers (1,038).

     The number of published patent applications naming at least one Maryland inventor in the first half of 2008 was up compared to last year. According to the PTO, 1,579 patent applications naming at least one Maryland inventor were published during the period January through June 2008, which is a 6% increase in the number of patent applications published for the same period in 2007 (1,495 patent applications), and a 5% increase over 2006 numbers (1,511).

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