HR · 1997 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 1997
In 1997, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 60.0% compared to 1996, reaching 16.
Croatia accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 36,234.
Croatia ranks 19th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 128.6% (from 7 in 1992).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.