# US Patent & Trademark Office Approaching Ten Million Patents

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6,000,000 issued 7 December '99.

7,000,000 issued 14 February 2006.

8,000,000 issued 16 August 2011.

9,000,000 issued 7 April 2015.

Expect the ten millionth US Patent within four years.