EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2015 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2015
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2015
51,545
Highest · 2015
Germany
21,030
Lowest · 2015
Malta
7
Member-state ranking · 2015
- #1 Germany DE 40.8% 21,030
- #2 France FR 18.6% 9,601
- #3 Italy IT 8.5% 4,369
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 3,500
- #5 Sweden SE 5.7% 2,925
- #6 Austria AT 3.9% 2,001
- #7 Spain ES 3.2% 1,628
- #8 Belgium BE 3.0% 1,569
- #9 Finland FI 2.7% 1,384
- #10 Denmark DK 2.6% 1,362
- #11 Poland PL 1.1% 578
- #12 Ireland IE 0.7% 382
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.6% 295
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 205
- #15 Portugal PT 0.3% 137
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 119
- #17 Greece EL 0.2% 97
- #18 Romania RO 0.2% 93
- #19 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 65
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 41
- #21 Estonia EE 0.1% 38
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 31
- #23 Latvia LV 0.1% 26
- #24 Lithuania LT 0.0% 24
- #25 Croatia HR 0.0% 17
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 8
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 7
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot