HR · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 1998
In 1998, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 18.8% compared to 1997, reaching 19.
Croatia accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
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 58.3% (from 12 in 1993).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.