There is a vertical bar graph. The horizontal axis is a time axis covering 4 consecutive fiscal years ending with 2009-2010. The vertical axis is labeled from 0 to 300 counts of patent activity. Two sets of bars are plotted for each of the 4 fiscal years. The first set is shown in grey. It is labeled "Patent Applications." The second set of bars is black and is labeled "Patents Issued". The grey bars show a decreasing trend of patent applications from just under 250 in 2006-2007 to a low of approximately 180 in 2008-2009 increasing to slightly over 200 in 2009-2010. The black bars show a variable trend of issued patents over from over 100 in 2006-2007 to a low of just over 50 in 2009-2010.