LU · 1990 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 1990
In 1990, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 135.3% compared to 1989, reaching 40.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 23,401.
Luxembourg ranks 13th out of 18 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 29.0% (from 31 in 1985).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.