PT · 1996 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1996
In 1996, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 28.6% compared to 1995, reaching 18.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 31,995.
Portugal ranks 17th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 100.0% (from 9 in 1991).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.