EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2006 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2006
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2006
52,599
Highest · 2006
Germany
24,149
Lowest · 2006
Cyprus
6
Member-state ranking · 2006
- #1 Germany DE 45.9% 24,149
- #2 France FR 16.2% 8,508
- #3 Italy IT 9.6% 5,068
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.1% 3,745
- #5 Sweden SE 5.0% 2,638
- #6 Austria AT 3.3% 1,750
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,542
- #8 Finland FI 2.6% 1,351
- #9 Spain ES 2.6% 1,351
- #10 Denmark DK 2.2% 1,140
- #11 Ireland IE 0.6% 291
- #12 Hungary HU 0.3% 164
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.3% 152
- #14 Poland PL 0.3% 140
- #15 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 107
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 106
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 105
- #18 Slovenia SI 0.2% 100
- #19 Slovakia SK 0.1% 40
- #20 Croatia HR 0.1% 35
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 27
- #22 Estonia EE 0.0% 21
- #23 Romania RO 0.0% 20
- #24 Latvia LV 0.0% 16
- #25 Lithuania LT 0.0% 9
- #26 Malta MT 0.0% 6
- #27 Cyprus CY 0.0% 6
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot