AT · 1997 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Austria, 1997
In 1997, Austria's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 26.9% compared to 1996, reaching 966.
Austria accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 36,234.
Austria ranks 8th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 57.3% (from 614 in 1992).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.