Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)

In 2014, Czechia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 7.6% compared to 2013, reaching 269.

Czechia accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 51,378.

Czechia ranks 13th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 52.8% (from 176 in 2009).

Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.