EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2009 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2009
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2009
51,367
Highest · 2009
Germany
23,439
Lowest · 2009
Malta
7
Member-state ranking · 2009
- #1 Germany DE 45.6% 23,439
- #2 France FR 16.9% 8,662
- #3 Italy IT 8.6% 4,430
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.7% 3,454
- #5 Sweden SE 5.1% 2,625
- #6 Austria AT 3.3% 1,711
- #7 Spain ES 3.0% 1,532
- #8 Belgium BE 2.8% 1,418
- #9 Finland FI 2.6% 1,316
- #10 Denmark DK 2.3% 1,202
- #11 Ireland IE 0.7% 346
- #12 Poland PL 0.6% 291
- #13 Hungary HU 0.4% 184
- #14 Czechia CZ 0.3% 176
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.2% 123
- #16 Greece EL 0.2% 92
- #17 Portugal PT 0.2% 92
- #18 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 74
- #19 Estonia EE 0.1% 44
- #20 Romania RO 0.1% 31
- #21 Slovakia SK 0.1% 28
- #22 Croatia HR 0.0% 22
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 18
- #24 Cyprus CY 0.0% 15
- #25 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 15
- #26 Lithuania LT 0.0% 8
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 7
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot