North Central Indiana's Innovation Landscape / July 2007

I. Home | II. Indiana | III. Region | IV. Innovators' Index | V. University Index | VI. About Patents | VII. Methodology

Note: You can find the most up-to-date version of this study here. This is the archived copy, completed in July 2007.

II. Indiana Data

Indiana Data: The region compared to the rest of the state

Note that the ampresand ("@") before an assignee or city designates that that assignee or city is located in the 5 county region.

A. Who
1. Assignees receiving patents

B. How Many
1. Patents filed by year

C. Where
1. Patents filed by City

D. What
1. Patents by IPC Section
2. Patents by IPC Class

A. Who

1. Assignees receiving patents (raw data)

Following is a list of the companies with the greatest increase/decrease in the state's share of patents produced (only companies that produced over 50 patents in either time period were included)

Top 10 companies with greatest increase in share of state's patents (change in % share):
delphi technology (6.68%)
thomson consumer electronics (5.98%)
masco of indiana (5.05%)
hill rom (2.90%)
international truck intellectual property (2.17%)
@depuy (2.16%)
roche diagnostic (1.95%)
procter & gamble (1.90%)
cook (1.52%)
cummmins engine (1.45%)

Bottom 10 companies with greatest decrease in share of state's patents:
@alliedsignal (-1.09%)
essex group (-1.24%)
emhart ind (-1.38%)
@bendix (-2.25%)
ball (-2.28%)
eli lilly (-3.44%)
general electric (-4.02%)
general motors (-4.82%)
@miles laboratories (-5.20%)
rca (-5.39%)

B. How Many

1. Indiana patents by year (raw data)

Indiana Patents

This chart shows how many patents were filed and issued in each year since 1976. Note that past 2005 the data is not reliable because of the average three year lag time between patent filing and issuance.

C. Where

1. Indiana Patents by County (raw data)

Top 10 counties with greatest increase in share of state's patents:
hamilton (4.01%)
ripley (1.67%)
tippecanoe (1.44%)
kosciusko (1.33%)
dearborn (1.25%)
boone (0.92%)
monroe (0.91%)
noble (0.68%)
johnson (0.64%)
floyd (0.52%)

Bottom 10 counties with greatest decrease in share of state's patents:
lake (-0.69%)
laporte (-0.75%)
vigo (-0.87%)
vanderburgh (-1.11%)
posey (-1.48%)
allen (-1.55%)
delaware (-1.88%)
st joseph (-2.01%)
elkhart (-2.51%)
marion (-3.23%)

2. Patents by City (raw data)

Top 10 cities with greatest increase in share of state's patents:
carmel (2.69%)
batesville (1.99%)
fishers (1.60%)
warsaw (1.49%)
lawrenceburg (1.26%)
bloomington (1.07%)
west lafayette (1.02%)
lowell (0.98%)
newburgh (0.91%)
lafayette (0.87%)

Bottom 10 cities with greatest decrease in share of state's patents:
evansville (-0.82%)
michigan city (-1.08%)
munster (-1.21%)
terre haute (-1.21%)
anderson (-1.52%)
mount vernon (-1.59%)
muncie (-2.05%)
elkhart (-2.46%)
south bend (-2.68%)
indianapolis (-4.66%)

D. What

1. Patents by IPC Section (raw data)

2. Patents by IPC Class (raw data)

Following are the 10 top gaining/declining classes of patents in Indiana

Top 10 classes with greatest increase in share of state's patents:
A61. MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE (6.75%)
G06. COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING (2.85%)
H04. ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE (1.21%)
A01. AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING (1.04%)
B60. VEHICLES IN GENERAL (0.60%)
A47. FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL (0.55%)
C11. ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLE (0.53%)
C12. BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERIN (0.48%)
E04. BUILDING (0.37%)
G01. MEASURING; TESTING (0.33%)

Bottom 10 classes with greatest decrease in share of state's patents:
G11. INFORMATION STORAGE (-0.43%)
H03. BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY (-0.45%)
F15. FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL (-0.51%)
C10. PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PE (-0.53%)
B61. RAILWAYS (-0.81%)
B65. CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL (-0.93%)
H01. BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS (-1.49%)
C07. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (-1.67%)
C08. ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THERE (-2.03%)
F16. ENGINEERING ELEMENTS OR UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING (-2.04%)