EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2001 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2001
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2001
45,760
Highest · 2001
Germany
21,938
Lowest · 2001
Lithuania
3
Member-state ranking · 2001
- #1 Germany DE 47.9% 21,938
- #2 France FR 16.0% 7,303
- #3 Italy IT 8.7% 3,987
- #4 Netherlands NL 8.6% 3,925
- #5 Sweden SE 4.7% 2,151
- #6 Finland FI 3.1% 1,411
- #7 Belgium BE 2.7% 1,215
- #8 Austria AT 2.6% 1,202
- #9 Denmark DK 2.0% 929
- #10 Spain ES 1.9% 878
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 251
- #12 Hungary HU 0.2% 100
- #13 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 72
- #14 Greece EL 0.2% 71
- #15 Czechia CZ 0.2% 71
- #16 Poland PL 0.1% 58
- #17 Slovenia SI 0.1% 51
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 42
- #19 Croatia HR 0.0% 21
- #20 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 15
- #21 Cyprus CY 0.0% 14
- #22 Slovakia SK 0.0% 12
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 10
- #24 Estonia EE 0.0% 9
- #25 Malta MT 0.0% 5
- #26 Latvia LV 0.0% 5
- #27 Lithuania LT 0.0% 3
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot