EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2008 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2008
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2008
51,658
Highest · 2008
Germany
23,173
Lowest · 2008
Malta
5
Member-state ranking · 2008
- #1 Germany DE 44.9% 23,173
- #2 France FR 16.9% 8,737
- #3 Italy IT 9.2% 4,753
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.7% 3,456
- #5 Sweden SE 5.4% 2,787
- #6 Austria AT 3.1% 1,626
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,501
- #8 Spain ES 2.8% 1,443
- #9 Denmark DK 2.5% 1,306
- #10 Finland FI 2.5% 1,266
- #11 Ireland IE 0.6% 328
- #12 Poland PL 0.5% 233
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.4% 209
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 181
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.3% 138
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 117
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 94
- #18 Luxembourg LU 0.2% 93
- #19 Slovakia SK 0.1% 36
- #20 Estonia EE 0.1% 35
- #21 Romania RO 0.1% 33
- #22 Croatia HR 0.1% 28
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 22
- #24 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 18
- #25 Lithuania LT 0.0% 16
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 11
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 5
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot