EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2004 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2004
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2004
49,854
Highest · 2004
Germany
23,134
Lowest · 2004
Malta
6
Member-state ranking · 2004
- #1 Germany DE 46.4% 23,134
- #2 France FR 16.7% 8,349
- #3 Italy IT 9.2% 4,596
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.4% 3,668
- #5 Sweden SE 4.5% 2,245
- #6 Belgium BE 3.0% 1,519
- #7 Austria AT 2.9% 1,449
- #8 Finland FI 2.8% 1,409
- #9 Spain ES 2.4% 1,217
- #10 Denmark DK 2.2% 1,113
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 273
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 153
- #13 Poland PL 0.2% 124
- #14 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 115
- #15 Czechia CZ 0.2% 112
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 111
- #17 Greece EL 0.1% 66
- #18 Portugal PT 0.1% 58
- #19 Croatia HR 0.1% 32
- #20 Romania RO 0.0% 23
- #21 Slovakia SK 0.0% 20
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 17
- #23 Lithuania LT 0.0% 11
- #24 Latvia LV 0.0% 9
- #25 Estonia EE 0.0% 8
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 6
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 6
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot