EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 1999 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 1999
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 1999
43,256
Highest · 1999
Germany
20,988
Lowest · 1999
Latvia
1
Member-state ranking · 1999
- #1 Germany DE 48.5% 20,988
- #2 France FR 16.7% 7,210
- #3 Italy IT 8.6% 3,734
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 2,960
- #5 Sweden SE 5.1% 2,212
- #6 Finland FI 3.3% 1,431
- #7 Belgium BE 3.1% 1,344
- #8 Austria AT 2.5% 1,072
- #9 Denmark DK 2.0% 872
- #10 Spain ES 1.7% 733
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 232
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 112
- #13 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 62
- #14 Czechia CZ 0.1% 59
- #15 Greece EL 0.1% 51
- #16 Portugal PT 0.1% 37
- #17 Poland PL 0.1% 36
- #18 Slovenia SI 0.1% 31
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 18
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.0% 15
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 8
- #22 Estonia EE 0.0% 7
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 7
- #24 Malta MT 0.0% 5
- #25 Cyprus CY 0.0% 4
- #26 Lithuania LT 0.0% 3
- #27 Latvia LV 0.0% 1
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot