PT · 1993 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1993
In 1993, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 80.0% compared to 1992, reaching 18.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 24,498.
Portugal ranks 16th 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 125.0% (from 8 in 1988).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.