EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2010 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2010
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2010
51,416
Highest · 2010
Germany
23,443
Lowest · 2010
Malta
3
Member-state ranking · 2010
- #1 Germany DE 45.6% 23,443
- #2 France FR 16.5% 8,489
- #3 Italy IT 8.8% 4,500
- #4 Netherlands NL 5.9% 3,059
- #5 Sweden SE 5.5% 2,816
- #6 Austria AT 3.4% 1,770
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,515
- #8 Spain ES 2.9% 1,511
- #9 Finland FI 2.7% 1,392
- #10 Denmark DK 2.5% 1,289
- #11 Poland PL 0.7% 361
- #12 Ireland IE 0.6% 324
- #13 Hungary HU 0.4% 195
- #14 Czechia CZ 0.4% 192
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.2% 106
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 95
- #17 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 76
- #18 Greece EL 0.1% 65
- #19 Slovakia SK 0.1% 46
- #20 Estonia EE 0.1% 38
- #21 Romania RO 0.1% 34
- #22 Croatia HR 0.1% 30
- #23 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 16
- #24 Latvia LV 0.0% 15
- #25 Lithuania LT 0.0% 15
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 7
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 3
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot