EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 1998
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 1998
39,695
Highest · 1998
Germany
19,578
Lowest · 1998
Cyprus
2
Member-state ranking · 1998
- #1 Germany DE 49.3% 19,578
- #2 France FR 17.1% 6,776
- #3 Italy IT 8.4% 3,346
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.5% 2,593
- #5 Sweden SE 5.3% 2,086
- #6 Finland FI 3.0% 1,180
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,154
- #8 Austria AT 2.4% 954
- #9 Denmark DK 2.0% 801
- #10 Spain ES 1.6% 625
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 186
- #12 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 74
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.2% 64
- #14 Greece EL 0.1% 59
- #15 Hungary HU 0.1% 56
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.1% 39
- #17 Poland PL 0.1% 28
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 26
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 19
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.0% 11
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 9
- #22 Estonia EE 0.0% 5
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 5
- #24 Malta MT 0.0% 4
- #25 Latvia LV 0.0% 4
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 2
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot