EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2014 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2014
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2014
51,378
Highest · 2014
Germany
20,754
Lowest · 2014
Cyprus
8
Member-state ranking · 2014
- #1 Germany DE 40.4% 20,754
- #2 France FR 17.8% 9,133
- #3 Italy IT 8.2% 4,234
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 3,470
- #5 Sweden SE 6.6% 3,379
- #6 Austria AT 3.8% 1,961
- #7 Finland FI 3.6% 1,862
- #8 Belgium BE 3.0% 1,543
- #9 Spain ES 2.9% 1,513
- #10 Denmark DK 2.7% 1,379
- #11 Poland PL 1.2% 609
- #12 Ireland IE 0.6% 330
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.5% 269
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 222
- #15 Slovenia SI 0.3% 135
- #16 Portugal PT 0.2% 126
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 117
- #18 Romania RO 0.2% 101
- #19 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 61
- #20 Lithuania LT 0.1% 48
- #21 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 47
- #22 Estonia EE 0.0% 24
- #23 Croatia HR 0.0% 14
- #24 Cyprus CY 0.0% 8
Source:
Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot