EL · 2001 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2001
In 2001, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 26.8% compared to 2000, reaching 71.
Greece accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 45,760.
Greece ranks 14th 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 97.2% (from 36 in 1996).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.