EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2005 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2005
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2005
51,536
Highest · 2005
Germany
24,065
Lowest · 2005
Estonia
6
Member-state ranking · 2005
- #1 Germany DE 46.7% 24,065
- #2 France FR 16.3% 8,390
- #3 Italy IT 9.5% 4,911
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 3,517
- #5 Sweden SE 4.7% 2,444
- #6 Austria AT 3.0% 1,523
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,519
- #8 Spain ES 2.6% 1,363
- #9 Finland FI 2.6% 1,343
- #10 Denmark DK 2.3% 1,193
- #11 Ireland IE 0.5% 274
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 135
- #13 Poland PL 0.2% 127
- #14 Portugal PT 0.2% 122
- #15 Greece EL 0.2% 110
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 108
- #17 Czechia CZ 0.2% 107
- #18 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 98
- #19 Croatia HR 0.1% 33
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 31
- #21 Romania RO 0.1% 28
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 23
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 17
- #24 Cyprus CY 0.0% 16
- #25 Malta MT 0.0% 11
- #26 Lithuania LT 0.0% 8
- #27 Estonia EE 0.0% 6
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot