EL · 2014 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Greece, 2014
In 2014, Greece's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 12.5% compared to 2013, reaching 117.
Greece accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,378.
Greece ranks 17th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 27.2% (from 92 in 2009).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.