LU · 1989 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 1989
In 1989, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 41.4% compared to 1988, reaching 17.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 24,430.
Luxembourg ranks 14th out of 18 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 29.2% (from 24 in 1984).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.