MT · 2013 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Malta, 2013
In 2013, Malta's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 20.0% compared to 2012, reaching 4.
Malta accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 51,387.
Malta ranks 27th 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 20.0% (from 5 in 2008).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.