4/01 STATISTIQUES EN BREF - SCIENCE ET TECHNOLOGIE

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Patent activities in the EU: international, national and regional perspectives Statistics Alice Zoppe in focus Figure 1 Shares oft he EU-15 patent applications to the EPO by Member State in 1999 (*) SCIENCE AND 2 2%- "* - E 1.6%1.6% Others m 21% TECHNOLOGY 0.8% 11% \ 1 ¿¿¡¡< S 4.7% THEME 9-4/2001 NL ■■11 Wk 436% 5.5% Contents I ■ 7.5% Introductory remarks 2 ' '^ Æ W Patent applications UK to the EPO 12.3% from EU-15, JP and US 2 F (*) 1999 provisional data. 14.9% Within EU-15: Germany is leading 3 In 1999, a total of 121 750 patent applications were filed by the European Regional perspective:Patent Office (EPO); 36,8 % were applied for by inventors coming from in absolute terms, île de France EU­15; 11,7 % from Japan and 25,6 % from the US. Between 1990 and is the first patenting region 4 1998, patent applications were increasing for all the three regions, with the highest annual average growth rate shown by the US. Patents in the high technology area: Within the European Union, Germany accounts for the largest share of more uniform distribution 6 > European patent applications (43.6%) followed by France (14.9%) and the United Kingdom (12.3 %). Together, they account for over 70 % of the European patenting activity. However, patent applications in the rest of the Member States show an increasing trend.

Sujets

• Patent
• European Patent Office
• Member state of the European Union
• Japan (manga)
• United States
• Statistics
• Economie gestion

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• Langue: English
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