EU-27 SNAPSHOT · 2017 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) — 2017
Eurostat pat_ep_ntot — Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017). Data range: 1978 to 2017.
EU-27 total · 2017
49,211
Highest · 2017
Germany
18,881
Lowest · 2017
Malta
6
Member-state ranking · 2017
- #1 Germany DE 38.4% 18,881
- #2 France FR 19.3% 9,502
- #3 Italy IT 8.4% 4,148
- #4 Netherlands NL 7.1% 3,477
- #5 Sweden SE 5.8% 2,833
- #6 Austria AT 4.1% 2,029
- #7 Belgium BE 3.4% 1,655
- #8 Spain ES 3.4% 1,654
- #9 Denmark DK 2.9% 1,417
- #10 Finland FI 2.6% 1,296
- #11 Poland PL 1.4% 686
- #12 Ireland IE 0.8% 371
- #13 Czechia CZ 0.7% 357
- #14 Hungary HU 0.4% 196
- #15 Portugal PT 0.3% 142
- #16 Slovenia SI 0.2% 114
- #17 Romania RO 0.2% 99
- #18 Greece EL 0.2% 90
- #19 Luxembourg LU 0.1% 55
- #20 Slovakia SK 0.1% 55
- #21 Estonia EE 0.1% 36
- #22 Bulgaria BG 0.1% 29
- #23 Latvia LV 0.0% 22
- #24 Lithuania LT 0.0% 21
- #25 Croatia HR 0.0% 19
- #26 Cyprus CY 0.0% 9
- #27 Malta MT 0.0% 6
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Eurostat · pat_ep_ntot