Intellectual Property Law

Number of Patents Issued to Marylanders Inches Up

By Brian Wm. Higgin

     U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) records show that for the year ending June 30, 2008, the PTO granted 1,983 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 represents a 1% increase in the number of patents issued to Maryland inventors for the previous year ending June 30, 2008 (1,956), but a 4% decline over the year ending June 30, 2007 (2,071).

      The number of published patent applications naming at least one Maryland inventor during the year ending June 30, 2009, was up 3% compared to the previous two years. According to the PTO, 3,172 patent applications naming at least one Maryland inventor were published during the year ending June 30, 2009, compared to 3,076 patent applications published in the year ending June 30, 2008, and 3,066 applications published in the year ending June 30, 2007.

Full post as published by Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).