EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 1988 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 1988
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 1988
23,455
Highest · 1988
Germany
11,944
Lowest · 1988
Portugal
8
Member-state ranking · 1988
- #1 Germany DE 50.9% 11,944
- #2 France FR 20.4% 4,780
- #3 Italy IT 8.7% 2,034
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 1,584
- #5 Sweden SE 3.7% 870
- #6 Austria AT 2.8% 649
- #7 Belgium BE 2.2% 513
- #8 Finland FI 1.4% 322
- #9 Denmark DK 1.3% 306
- #10 Spain ES 0.9% 205
- #11 Hungary HU 0.4% 96
- #12 Ireland IE 0.2% 47
- #13 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 29
- #14 Poland PL 0.1% 25
- #15 Greece EL 0.1% 19
- #16 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 16
- #17 Portugal PT 0.0% 8
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot