PT · 2003 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2003
In 2003, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 69.2% compared to 2002, reaching 66.
Portugal accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 47,305.
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 153.8% (from 26 in 1998).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.