Patents and R&D expenditure - Issue number 16/2006 - Products Statistics in Focus
The Statistics in Focus publication analyses the breakdown of patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) by institutional sectors, showing the patenting activity of EU enterprises. The main findings show that the business enterprise sector dominates the patenting activity both in the EU and the US and that patenting is less expensive in the EU than in the US. The publication also analyses the results of the patent Scorecard 2006.
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Release date: 9 November 2006
Additional information
Product code: KS-NS-06-016
Theme: Science and technology
Collection: Statistics in Focus