PT · 1994 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1994
In 1994, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 27.8% compared to 1993, reaching 13.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 25,947.
Portugal ranks 18th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 116.7% (from 6 in 1989).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.