LU · 1993 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 1993
In 1993, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 47.8% compared to 1992, reaching 34.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 24,498.
Luxembourg ranks 13th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 17.2% (from 29 in 1988).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.