EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 1996 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 1996
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 1996
31,995
Highest · 1996
Germany
15,561
Lowest · 1996
Lithuania
1
Member-state ranking · 1996
- #1 Germany DE 48.6% 15,561
- #2 France FR 17.6% 5,628
- #3 Italy IT 9.0% 2,889
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.7% 2,128
- #5 Sweden SE 5.7% 1,820
- #6 Belgium BE 2.8% 898
- #7 Finland FI 2.7% 859
- #8 Austria AT 2.4% 761
- #9 Denmark DK 2.0% 625
- #10 Spain ES 1.4% 434
- #11 Ireland IE 0.3% 110
- #12 Hungary HU 0.2% 64
- #13 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 41
- #14 Greece EL 0.1% 36
- #15 Czechia CZ 0.1% 31
- #16 Poland PL 0.1% 27
- #17 Portugal PT 0.1% 18
- #18 Slovenia SI 0.1% 18
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 10
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.0% 8
- #21 Estonia EE 0.0% 5
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 4
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 2
- #24 Lithuania LT 0.0% 1
Source:
Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot