PT · 2010 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2010
In 2010, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 3.3% compared to 2009, reaching 95.
Portugal accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,416.
Portugal ranks 16th 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 22.1% (from 122 in 2005).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.