EL · 2002 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2002
In 2002, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 7.0% compared to 2001, reaching 76.
Greece accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 45,897.
Greece ranks 16th 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 49.0% (from 51 in 1997).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.