EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 1997 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 1997
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 1997
36,234
Highest · 1997
Germany
17,506
Lowest · 1997
Lithuania
1
Member-state ranking · 1997
- #1 Germany DE 48.3% 17,506
- #2 France FR 17.3% 6,253
- #3 Italy IT 8.7% 3,153
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.6% 2,407
- #5 Sweden SE 5.7% 2,067
- #6 Belgium BE 3.2% 1,152
- #7 Finland FI 2.8% 1,021
- #8 Austria AT 2.7% 966
- #9 Denmark DK 1.8% 639
- #10 Spain ES 1.6% 584
- #11 Ireland IE 0.4% 130
- #12 Hungary HU 0.2% 73
- #13 Greece EL 0.1% 51
- #14 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 50
- #15 Czechia CZ 0.1% 44
- #16 Poland PL 0.1% 28
- #17 Portugal PT 0.1% 22
- #18 Slovenia SI 0.1% 19
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 16
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.0% 12
- #21 Romania RO 0.0% 8
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 7
- #23 Estonia EE 0.0% 6
- #24 Latvia LV 0.0% 3
- #25 Malta MT 0.0% 2
- #26 Lithuania LT 0.0% 1
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot