North Central Indiana's Innovation Landscape / July 2007

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

III. Region Data

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 (See the innovators index for more stats.)

Following is a list of companies who did not produce any patents in the first time period, but did in the second (full list here)

robert bosch	91
honeywell intl	61
bristol myers squibb	42
msx	40
cequent towing	39
dekko	28
harman intl ind	17
wabash valley mfg	17
l & p property management	17
american electronic components	15
carrier	15
symmetry medical	14
prime solutions	13
vt holdings ii	12
ssd control technology	11
ring barers	10
atwood mobile	8
jayco	7
integrated biomedical technology	7
bright solutions	7
warsaw orthopedic	6
paragon medical	6
bennington marine	6
unifrax	6
dura global technology	6
california institute of technology	6
actuant	5
spx	5
walter lorenz surgical	5
dura automotive systems	5
international truck intellectual property	5
fastec industrial	5
agdia	5
wells cti	5
ethicon	5
asc ind	5

B. How Many

1. Region patents by year (raw data)

This chart shows how many patents were filed 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.

This chart shows how many patents were owned in the region and invented in the region 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. Region Patents by City (raw data)

Top 5 cities with greatest increase in share of region's patents:
warsaw (11.96%)
granger (4.97%)
osceola (1.87%)
silver lake (1.50%)
pierceton (0.59%)

Bottom 5 cities with greatest decrease in share of region's patents:
middlebury (-0.75%)
bristol (-0.80%)
mishawaka (-1.91%)
elkhart (-8.87%)
south bend (-12.25%)

D. What

1. Patents by IPC Section (raw data)

2. Patents by IPC Class (raw data)

Top 10 classes with greatest increase in share of region's patents:
Following are the 10 top gaining/declining classes of patents in the region
A61. MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE (10.91%)
H01. BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS (2.09%)
H04. ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE (1.76%)
H03. BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY (1.41%)
E04. BUILDING (1.36%)
F25. REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE (1.11%)
B29. WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL (0.86%)
A47. FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL (0.80%)
B60. VEHICLES IN GENERAL (0.64%)
H05. ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (0.63%)

Bottom 10 classes with greatest decrease in share of region's patents:
A23. FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES (-0.61%)
B24. GRINDING; POLISHING (-0.67%)
C08. ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THERE (-0.69%)
A01. AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING (-0.81%)
F23. COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES (-0.90%)
G01. MEASURING; TESTING (-1.08%)
F15. FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL (-2.25%)
F16. ENGINEERING ELEMENTS OR UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING (-4.52%)
C12. BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERIN (-5.52%)
C07. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (-5.75%)