HR · 2008 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 2008
In 2008, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 9.7% compared to 2007, reaching 28.
Croatia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 51,658.
Croatia ranks 22nd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 30.0% (from 40 in 2003).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.