EL · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 1998
In 1998, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 15.7% compared to 1997, reaching 59.
Greece accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
Greece ranks 14th 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 268.8% (from 16 in 1993).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.