MT · 2016 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Malta, 2016
In 2016, Malta's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 14.3% compared to 2015, reaching 6.
Malta accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 50,440.
Malta ranks 27th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.