SI · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Slovenia, 1998
In 1998, Slovenia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 105.3% compared to 1997, reaching 39.
Slovenia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
Slovenia ranks 16th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 85.7% (from 21 in 1993).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.