PT · 2017 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 2.2% compared to 2016, reaching 142.
Portugal accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 49,211.
Portugal ranks 15th 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 26.8% (from 112 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.