PT · 1989 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1989
In 1989, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 25.0% compared to 1988, reaching 6.
Portugal accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 24,430.
Portugal ranks 17th out of 18 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 50.0% (from 4 in 1984).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.