AT · 1987 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Austria, 1987
In 1987, Austria's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 14.9% compared to 1986, reaching 608.
Austria accounts for 2.8% of the EU-27 total of 21,737.
Austria ranks 6th out of 17 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 62.6% (from 374 in 1982).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.