PT · 2000 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2000
In 2000, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 10.8% compared to 1999, reaching 41.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 45,674.
Portugal ranks 18th 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 192.9% (from 14 in 1995).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.