HR · 2002 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 2002
In 2002, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 71.4% compared to 2001, reaching 36.
Croatia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 45,897.
Croatia ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 125.0% (from 16 in 1997).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.