MT · 2004 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Malta, 2004
In 2004, Malta's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 100.0% compared to 2003, reaching 6.
Malta accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 49,854.
Malta ranks 27th 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 20.0% (from 5 in 1999).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.