EL · 2004 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2004
In 2004, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 22.4% compared to 2003, reaching 66.
Greece accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 49,854.
Greece ranks 17th 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 29.4% (from 51 in 1999).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.