PT · 1987 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1987
In 1987, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 83.3% compared to 1986, reaching 11.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 21,737.
Portugal ranks 17th out of 17 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 266.7% (from 3 in 1982).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.