EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2002 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2002
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2002
45,897
Highest · 2002
Germany
21,876
Lowest · 2002
Lithuania
2
Member-state ranking · 2002
- #1 Germany DE 47.7% 21,876
- #2 France FR 16.2% 7,450
- #3 Italy IT 9.2% 4,229
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.7% 3,557
- #5 Sweden SE 4.5% 2,066
- #6 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,334
- #7 Finland FI 2.8% 1,293
- #8 Austria AT 2.8% 1,291
- #9 Denmark DK 2.1% 966
- #10 Spain ES 2.0% 935
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 225
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 120
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.2% 91
- #14 Slovenia SI 0.2% 83
- #15 Poland PL 0.2% 83
- #16 Greece EL 0.2% 76
- #17 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 60
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 39
- #19 Croatia HR 0.1% 36
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 25
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 14
- #22 Romania RO 0.0% 11
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 6
- #24 Cyprus CY 0.0% 6
- #25 Estonia EE 0.0% 5
- #26 Malta MT 0.0% 4
- #27 Lithuania LT 0.0% 2
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot