Patents in the United States

Number of patent grants in the U.S., by state FY 2018

Number of U.S. patents issued by residency of applicant FY 2017-FY 2018

Percentage of patent applications in the U.S. 2017, by fields of technology

Ranking of U.S. companies with the most international patent applications 2017

Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies 2002-2017

Number of independent inventors in the U.S. 1998-2015

Number of utility patent application filings in the U.S. FY 1998-FY 2018

Number of utility patents issued in the U.S. FY 1997-FY 2018

Number of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownership

Number of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin

Number of design patent application filings in the U.S. FY 1998- FY 2018

Number of design patents issued in the U.S. FY 1997-FY 2018

Number of industrial design patent filings by U.S. companies 2008-2017

Number of industrial design patent registrations by U.S. companies 2008-2017

Number of plant patent application filings in the U.S. FY 1998-FY 2018

Number of plant patents issued in the U.S. FY 1997-FY 2018

Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownership

Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin

Ranking of organizations with plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015

Statutory invention registrations and defensive publication grants in the U.S. 2014

Statutory invention registrations/defensive publication grants by the USPTO 2015

Ranking of organizations with defensive publications/SIR grants in the U.S. 2015

Number of patent applications stifled by U.S. Government secrecy orders 2000-2018

Number of patents issued to the U.S. government, by department FY 2018

Top ten U.S. patent litigation cases by damages awarded 1997 to 2017

Share of patent litigations in the U.S. 1998-2017, by industry

Patent holder median damages awarded in U.S. patent litigation cases 1998-2017

Number of patent infringement investigations instituted in the U.S. 2006-2018

Percentage of accused products in U.S. patent infringement investigations, by type

Companies who purchased the most U.S. patents and applications in 2015

Intellectual property law firms by number of overall filings U.S. 2018

Top university owners of United States issued utility patents 2017

Inventors with most patents issued in the U.S. in 2015

Maintenance rate of U.S. patents up for renewal 2005 to 2015