EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2016 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2016
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2016
50,440
Highest · 2016
Germany
20,138
Lowest · 2016
Malta
6
Member-state ranking · 2016
- #1 Germany DE 39.9% 20,138
- #2 France FR 18.9% 9,555
- #3 Italy IT 8.4% 4,242
- #4 Netherlands NL 6.8% 3,452
- #5 Sweden SE 5.7% 2,900
- #6 Austria AT 4.0% 2,025
- #7 Spain ES 3.3% 1,641
- #8 Belgium BE 3.2% 1,589
- #9 Denmark DK 2.7% 1,372
- #10 Finland FI 2.6% 1,314
- #11 Poland PL 1.2% 627
- #12 Ireland IE 0.7% 361
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.6% 318
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 201
- #15 Portugal PT 0.3% 139
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 112
- #17 Romania RO 0.2% 98
- #18 Greece EL 0.2% 92
- #19 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 61
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 54
- #21 Estonia EE 0.1% 33
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 31
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 21
- #24 Croatia HR 0.0% 21
- #25 Lithuania LT 0.0% 19
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 9
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 6
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot