PT · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 1998
In 1998, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 18.2% compared to 1997, reaching 26.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
Portugal ranks 18th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 44.4% (from 18 in 1993).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.