EL · 2010 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2010
In 2010, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 29.3% compared to 2009, reaching 65.
Greece accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 51,416.
Greece ranks 18th 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 40.9% (from 110 in 2005).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.