PT · 2008 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2008
In 2008, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 4.9% compared to 2007, reaching 117.
Portugal accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,658.
Portugal ranks 16th 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 77.3% (from 66 in 2003).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.