SK · 1998 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Slovakia, 1998
In 1998, Slovakia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) decreased by 8.3% compared to 1997, reaching 11.
Slovakia accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 39,695.
Slovakia ranks 20th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.