LU · 2008 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Luxembourg, 2008
In 2008, Luxembourg's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 27.4% compared to 2007, reaching 93.
Luxembourg accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,658.
Luxembourg ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 6.9% (from 87 in 2003).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.