NL · 1980 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Netherlands, 1980
In 1980, Netherlands's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 28.8% compared to 1979, reaching 670.
Netherlands accounts for 5.9% of the EU-27 total of 11,332.
Netherlands ranks 3rd out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.