EL · 2011 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2011
In 2011, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 30.8% compared to 2010, reaching 85.
Greece accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 52,010.
Greece ranks 17th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.0% (from 105 in 2006).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.