PL · 1999 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Poland, 1999
In 1999, Poland's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 28.6% compared to 1998, reaching 36.
Poland accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 43,256.
Poland ranks 17th 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 89.5% (from 19 in 1994).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.