PT · 2009 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2009
In 2009, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 21.4% compared to 2008, reaching 92.
Portugal accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,367.
Portugal ranks 17th 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 58.6% (from 58 in 2004).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.