LU · 2013 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 2013
In 2013, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 3.0% compared to 2012, reaching 65.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 51,387.
Luxembourg ranks 20th 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 30.1% (from 93 in 2008).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.