AT · 1996 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Austria, 1996
In 1996, Austria's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 13.4% compared to 1995, reaching 761.
Austria accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 31,995.
Austria ranks 8th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 16.4% (from 654 in 1991).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.