AT · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Austria, 1998
In 1998, Austria's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 1.2% compared to 1997, reaching 954.
Austria accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
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 45.6% (from 655 in 1993).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.