Number of Patents Issued to Marylanders Inches Up
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) records show that for the one year period ending June 30, 2010, the PTO granted 2,136 patents on which at least one inventor was identified as a Maryland resident. That is an 8% increase in the number of patents issued to Maryland inventors for the previous one year ending June 30, 2009 (1,983), and a 9% increase over the one year ending June 30, 2008 (1,956).
PTO records show that for the one year period ending June 30, 2010, the PTO published 3,127 patent applications on which at least one inventor was identified as a Maryland resident. That is a 1% decrease in the number of patent applications published to Maryland inventors for the previous one year ending June 30, 2009 (3,172), but a 2% increase over the year ending June 30, 2008 (3,076).
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