21-42   Three Kinds of Applications for Patents Received
					(item)
Item	1990	1995	2000	2003	2004
Total Applications Examined	41469	83045	170682	308487	353807
Inventions	10137	21636	51747	105318	130133
Domestic	5832	10018	25346	56769	65786
Service	2482	2993	12609	34731	41750
Universities and Colleges	509	574	1942	7704	9683
Research Institutions	805	865	2228	4711	4543
Industrial and Mineral Enterprises	816	1086	8316	21858	27029
Government Agencies and Organizations	352	468	123	458	495
Non-service	3350	7025	12737	22038	24036
Foreign	4305	11618	26401	48549	64347
Service	4018	11045	25334	46764	62113
Non-service	287	573	1067	1785	2234
Utility Models	27615	43741	68815	109115	112825
Domestic	27488	43429	68461	107842	111578
Service	7424	8727	17792	34044	35218
Universities and Colleges	811	771	965	2375	2844
Research Institutions	1521	1376	1616	2104	1881
Industrial and Mineral Enterprises	3830	4739	14912	28998	29933
Government Agencies and Organizations	1262	1841	299	567	560
Non-service	20064	34702	50669	73798	76360
Foreign	127	312	354	1273	1247
Service	55	190	259	1076	1020
Non-service	72	122	95	197	227
Designs	3717	17668	50120	94054	110849
Domestic	3265	15433	46532	86627	101579
Service	1713	8193	22974	33681	34312
Universities and Colleges	13	18	17	173	470
Research Institutions	64	104	278	183	285
Industrial and Mineral Enterprises	1310	6031	22634	33261	33186
Government Agencies and Organizations	326	2040	45	64	371
Non-service	1552	7240	23558	52946	67267
Foreign	452	2235	3588	7427	9270
Service	418	2013	3432	7192	8904
Non-service	34	222	156	235	366