Patent applications to the EPO by priority year by institutional sector (1977-2012)
methods, notes and classification
- Sector of performance
- 0 Business enterprise sector
- 1 Government sector or private non-profit sector
- 2 Higher education sector
- 3 Hospitals
- 4 Individual applicant
- 5 Unknown
- Unit of measure
- 0 Number
- 1 Million purchasing power standards (PPS)
- 2 Purchasing power standard (PPS) per inhabitant
- 3 Per million inhabitants
- 4 Per million of active population
- Geopolitical entity (reporting)
- 00 European Union - 28 countries (2013-2020)
- 01 European Union - 27 countries (2007-2013)
- 02 Euro area - 18 countries (2014)
- 03 Euro area - 17 countries (2011-2013)
- 04 Belgium
- 05 Bulgaria
- 06 Czechia
- 07 Denmark
- 08 Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG)
- 09 Estonia
- 0a Ireland
- 0b Greece
- 0c Spain
- 0d France
- 0e Croatia
- 0f Italy
- 0g Cyprus
- 0h Latvia
- 0i Lithuania
- 0j Luxembourg
- 0k Hungary
- 0l Malta
- 0m Netherlands
- 0n Austria
- 0o Poland
- 0p Portugal
- 0q Romania
- 0r Slovenia
- 0s Slovakia
- 0t Finland
- 0u Sweden
- 0v Iceland
- 0w Liechtenstein
- 0x Norway
- 0y Switzerland
- 0z United Kingdom
- 10 North Macedonia
- 11 Turkey
- 12 Russia
- 13 Former Soviet Union (before 1991)/Total components of the former Soviet Union
- 14 South Africa
- 15 Canada
- 16 United States
- 17 Mexico
- 18 Brazil
- 19 China except Hong Kong
- 1a Hong Kong
- 1b Japan
- 1c South Korea
- 1d Taiwan
- 1e India
- 1f Singapore
- 1g Israel
- 1h Australia
- 1i New Zealand
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