IE · 1979 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Ireland, 1979
In 1979, Ireland's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) stood at 17.
Ireland accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 9,187.
Ireland ranks 13th out of 15 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.