EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2003 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2003
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2003
47,305
Highest · 2003
Germany
22,215
Lowest · 2003
Malta
3
Member-state ranking · 2003
- #1 Germany DE 47.0% 22,215
- #2 France FR 16.8% 7,957
- #3 Italy IT 9.3% 4,396
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.4% 3,502
- #5 Sweden SE 4.3% 2,056
- #6 Austria AT 2.9% 1,392
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,363
- #8 Finland FI 2.7% 1,295
- #9 Denmark DK 2.4% 1,116
- #10 Spain ES 2.0% 962
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 227
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 133
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.2% 110
- #14 Poland PL 0.2% 109
- #15 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 87
- #16 Greece EL 0.2% 85
- #17 Slovenia SI 0.2% 73
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 66
- #19 Croatia HR 0.1% 40
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 31
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 21
- #22 Lithuania LT 0.0% 16
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 16
- #24 Estonia EE 0.0% 11
- #25 Latvia LV 0.0% 7
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 5
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 3
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot