EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2012 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2012
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2012
51,382
Highest · 2012
Germany
21,930
Lowest · 2012
Cyprus
2
Member-state ranking · 2012
- #1 Germany DE 42.7% 21,930
- #2 France FR 17.3% 8,895
- #3 Italy IT 8.4% 4,333
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.6% 3,389
- #5 Sweden SE 6.0% 3,085
- #6 Austria AT 3.6% 1,862
- #7 Finland FI 3.2% 1,637
- #8 Spain ES 3.0% 1,517
- #9 Belgium BE 2.9% 1,506
- #10 Denmark DK 2.6% 1,318
- #11 Poland PL 0.9% 483
- #12 Ireland IE 0.6% 313
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.4% 231
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 207
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.2% 126
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 112
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 101
- #18 Romania RO 0.1% 71
- #19 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 67
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 44
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 33
- #22 Lithuania LT 0.1% 32
- #23 Latvia LV 0.1% 27
- #24 Estonia EE 0.0% 23
- #25 Croatia HR 0.0% 19
- #26 Malta MT 0.0% 5
- #27 Cyprus CY 0.0% 2
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot