SK · 1999 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Slovakia, 1999
In 1999, Slovakia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 36.4% compared to 1998, reaching 15.
Slovakia accounts for 0.0% of the EU-27 total of 43,256.
Slovakia ranks 20th 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 114.3% (from 7 in 1994).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.