LU · 2000 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 2000
In 2000, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 29.0% compared to 1999, reaching 80.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 45,674.
Luxembourg ranks 13th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 185.7% (from 28 in 1995).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.