HR · 2003 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 2003
In 2003, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 11.1% compared to 2002, reaching 40.
Croatia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 47,305.
Croatia ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 110.5% (from 19 in 1998).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.