RO · 2015 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Romania, 2015
In 2015, Romania's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 7.9% compared to 2014, reaching 93.
Romania accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 51,545.
Romania 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 173.5% (from 34 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.