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PATE01: Number of patent applications by unit, type, reporting country and time

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Data refers only to patent applications filed to and granted by the European Patent Office (EPO). Reporting country is the country the first named applicant lives in. All direct applications to the EPO is taken into account, but among the PCT applications (Patent Co-operative Treaty) made to the EPO only those that have entered into the regional phase are counted. As PCT patent applications in the international phase designating the EPO will not be included in the calculation of patent applications to the EPO. Applications filed are not necessary granted the following year as the processing time can be up to several years. The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty. It provides a unified procedure forfiling patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application. The national and regional phase, of PCT applications, is entered after 30 months from the filing date of the international application or from the earliest priority date of the application if a priority is claimed. It is possible to enter the European regional phase at 31 months from the earliest priority date. National and regional phases can also be started earlier on the express request of the applicant. Patents per million inhabitants are calculated with the mean population for each country and year from POPU02 as a base. Values might therefore differ slightly from the per million inhabitans values that are published at the EPO website. They only publish values for countries with over a million inhabitants, which excludes a number of the Nordic countries.

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Includes Åland.

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Break in timeseries: Up to and including the year 2019, EU referes to EU28 (i.e. including Great Brittain). From 2020, EU refers to EU27_2020, which is the European Union with a fixed area composition of the current 27 countries.