EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2000 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2000
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2000
45,674
Highest · 2000
Germany
22,115
Lowest · 2000
Malta
4
Member-state ranking · 2000
- #1 Germany DE 48.4% 22,115
- #2 France FR 16.0% 7,314
- #3 Italy IT 8.8% 4,006
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.6% 3,470
- #5 Sweden SE 5.1% 2,314
- #6 Finland FI 3.1% 1,435
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,312
- #8 Austria AT 2.6% 1,183
- #9 Denmark DK 2.2% 983
- #10 Spain ES 1.8% 803
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 206
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 121
- #13 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 80
- #14 Czechia CZ 0.1% 66
- #15 Greece EL 0.1% 56
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.1% 49
- #17 Poland PL 0.1% 43
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 41
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 15
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.0% 11
- #21 Latvia LV 0.0% 8
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 7
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 6
- #24 Cyprus CY 0.0% 6
- #25 Lithuania LT 0.0% 4
- #26 Estonia EE 0.0% 4
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 4
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot