HR · 2014 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 2014
In 2014, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 22.2% compared to 2013, reaching 14.
Croatia accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 51,378.
Croatia ranks 23rd out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 36.4% (from 22 in 2009).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.