THE LIST OF LISTS

America Leans Digital

THE UNITED STATES INNOVATION AND COMPETITION ACT (S.1260) identified ten science and technology priorities to maintain US global innovation leadership. This list expands on the high priority industries for maintaining US competitiveness and American technical leadership in five Industries of the Future (IotF): artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, quantum information science, 5G/advanced wireless technology, and biotechnology. The new list adds climate change technologies — natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation; and energy technology; data storage including distributed ledger technology (also known as blockchain); and advanced materials.

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1. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy, and related advances
2. High-performance computing, semiconductors, and advanced computer hardware and software
3. Quantum information science and technology
4. Robotics, automation, and advanced manufacturing
5. Natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation
6. Advanced communications technology and immersive technology
7. Biotechnology, medical technology, genomics, and synthetic biology
8. Data storage, data management, distributed ledger technologies, and cybersecurity, including biometrics
9. Advanced energy, industrial efficiency technologies including batteries, and advanced nuclear technologies including for the purposes of electric generation
10. Advanced materials science, including composites and 2D materials

The technologies in bold align with China's seven Frontier Technologies — the Chinese Communist Party's R&D priorities.

China plans to boost research into seven "frontier technologies" to compete with the US for competitive advantage and scientific and technical supremacy in innovation. (The question is whether the Chinese intend to innovate themselves or just continue appropriating US and global intellectual property but we digress.)

The technologies in bold align with the US's ten scientific and technical priorities.

1. Artificial intelligence
2. Quantum computing (quantum information)
3. Integrated circuits or semiconductors
4. Brain Science
5. Genomics and biotechnology
6. Clinical medicine and health
7. Deep space, deep earth, deep sea and polar research

Both the US and the EU are considerng a new Carbon Border Tax that will charge tariffs on imports of products that are large producers of GHG in the manufacturing process. Among the areas that will be impacted are cement production, cruise ships, electric power generation which accounts for 25% of US GHG emissions, iron and aluminum, and fertilizer production. It is expected that new innovations will be needed to enable these industries to avoid these new tariffs if they are enacted.

1. CHINA
2. UNITED STATES
3. EUROPEAN UNION
4. INDIA
5. RUSSIA
6. JAPAN
7. BRAZIL
8. INDONESIA
9. IRAN
10. CANADA

Source: New York Times, July 14, 2021.

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Patent Numbers By Year

The following table displays the calendar year along with the first corresponding document number issued in each year for selected patent document types (utility, design, plant, and reissue patents and statutory invention registrations)

This list provides a quick way to figure out how old patent is if you don't have access to the front page of the patent which has the exact date.

The current patent numbering system began with a patent issued on July 13, 1836. Prior to that date, 9,957 patents had been issued. Defensive Publications (T) and Improvement patents (AI) are not included in this table.
Reissue patents were not separately numbered until 1838.
The last Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) granted in 2011 is dated December 6, 2011 (H002265).

Contemporary Application Series Numbers

Series Codes

Patent Application Numbers start with a two digit series number and a six digit serial number. Series numbers increase when the six digit serial number hits 999999. (In the case of older pre-2001 patents where the series number begins with 1-9 the leading 0 is missing.)

Special Series Numbers

Provisional patent applications begin with 60, 61, or 62. The format for this field is 60, 61 or 62/###,###. You only can find provisional patent application numbers when an application is published or if a patent is granted and the inventor uses the filing date of the provisional patent application as the priority date for the patent. Starting June 8, 1995, USPTO started using the "60" designation for provisional patent applications.

Starting October 1, 1992, design patent applications are assigned separate application serial numbers which are associated with newly established application series codes, beginning with 29. Design patents are examined in Tech Center 2900.

SERIES NUMBERS

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Standardized Bibliographic Data

What Do Those Little Numbers On The Front Page of a Patent PDF Mean?

The bibliographic data on the front page of a patent document is identified by the use of INID codes in parentheses, brackets or circles. INID is an acronym for Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data. INID codes are defined under WIPO Standard ST.9.

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The table below is a sample of the codes found on US patents.

INID Codes and Descriptions

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KIND CODES TELL YOU THE KIND OF PATENT DOCUMENT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Kind Codes include a letter, and in many cases a number, used to distinguish the kind of patent document (e.g., publication of an application for a utility patent (patent application publication), patent, plant patent application publication, plant patent, or design patent) and the level of publication (e.g., first publication, second publication, or corrected publication).

The kind code is another useful tool to help you understand what's going on with a patent. An B2 Kind Code on a US patent means that the patent was previously published as a patent application. A B1 means it wasn't previously published as a patent application. It's a quick way to see if a patent was published without having to find the application number and dig around. You can tell the difference between utility patents which have Kind Codes that start with "B" and Design patents that start with "S".

Kind Codes appear on the upper right hand corner of the "printed" version of a patent. It is the two character value immediately to the right of the patent number. The Kind Code isn't on the full text version of the patents or the applications. If you want to know the Kind Code you need to look at the image version of the patents.

Here is a list of the most common Kind Codes found on taxpayer funded patents. Go to the Take Me To The Source Button to get the full list.

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USPTO Kind Codes Used on Documents Published Beginning January 2, 2001

VINTAGE OF THE APPLICATIONS BY TECH CENTER

Average filing date of applications receiving a First Office Action in the last three months at September 20, 2021. This gives you insight into the age of the applications actively being prosecuted at the USPTO. The tables are organized by Group Art Unit (GAU).

Tech Center 1600 — BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Tech Center 1700 — CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGNS

Tech Center 2100 — COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE

Tech Center 2400 — NETWORKING, MULTIPLEXING, CABLE AND SECURITY

Tech Center 2600 — COMMUNICATIONS

Tech Center 2800 — SEMICONDUCTORS/MEMORY, CIRCUITS/MEASURING AND TESTING, OPTICS/PHOTOCOPYING

Tech Center 2900 — DESIGN

Tech Center 3600  — TRANSPORTATION, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND LICENSE AND REVIEW

Tech Center 3700 —  MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTS