U.S. Applications that Recite Nucleotide Sequences in Claims

The blue bars in the plot below represent the total number of newly-filed U.S. patent applications per month that recite nucleotide sequences in their claims. The nucleotide sequences can be from any organism.  The applications were plotted by their filing date. In order to be included in the graph, the sequence had to be at least 150 base pairs in length and have a BLAST E value that was less than 1e^-200. Note that there is an 18 month delay between when an application is filed and when it is published, so the data for the last 18 months is incomplete.

Summary

This plot indicates that the number of applications that recite nucleotide sequences in the claims appears to be have decreased after peaking in 2002.

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