EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2011 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2011
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2011
52,010
Highest · 2011
Germany
22,963
Lowest · 2011
Cyprus
5
Member-state ranking · 2011
- #1 Germany DE 44.2% 22,963
- #2 France FR 17.2% 8,923
- #3 Italy IT 8.5% 4,414
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.6% 3,449
- #5 Sweden SE 5.4% 2,830
- #6 Austria AT 3.5% 1,800
- #7 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,516
- #8 Spain ES 2.8% 1,480
- #9 Denmark DK 2.8% 1,466
- #10 Finland FI 2.6% 1,347
- #11 Poland PL 0.7% 384
- #12 Ireland IE 0.7% 371
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.4% 222
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 221
- #15 Portugal PT 0.2% 121
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 112
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 85
- #18 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 69
- #19 Romania RO 0.1% 60
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 54
- #21 Estonia EE 0.1% 27
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.0% 26
- #23 Lithuania LT 0.0% 18
- #24 Latvia LV 0.0% 17
- #25 Croatia HR 0.0% 16
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 5
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot