EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2013 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2013
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2013
51,387
Highest · 2013
Germany
21,427
Lowest · 2013
Malta
4
Member-state ranking · 2013
- #1 Germany DE 41.7% 21,427
- #2 France FR 17.5% 8,972
- #3 Italy IT 8.4% 4,301
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.6% 3,367
- #5 Sweden SE 6.3% 3,238
- #6 Austria AT 3.7% 1,913
- #7 Finland FI 3.4% 1,745
- #8 Belgium BE 3.0% 1,536
- #9 Spain ES 2.9% 1,512
- #10 Denmark DK 2.6% 1,356
- #11 Poland PL 1.1% 547
- #12 Ireland IE 0.6% 329
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.5% 250
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 215
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.2% 127
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 118
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 104
- #18 Romania RO 0.2% 85
- #19 Latvia LV 0.1% 67
- #20 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 65
- #21 Slovakia SK 0.1% 49
- #22 Lithuania LT 0.1% 40
- #23 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 39
- #24 Estonia EE 0.1% 27
- #25 Croatia HR 0.0% 18
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 7
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 4
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot