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Patent applications from Poland at European Patent Office post one of Europe’s highest growth rates despite pandemic

Patent applications filed by Polish companies, universities, and research institutes at the European Patent Office (EPO) increased by 12.8% in 2021, four times the growth rate of the previous year (3.2%), and more than 4.5 times the EU27 average (2.7%), to a total of 539, according to the EPO Patent Index 2021 published today. It […]

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Polish universities and companies file more patent applications at European Patent Office in 2020 despite pandemic

Patent applications filed by Polish companies, universities, and research institutes at the European Patent Office (EPO) increased by 4.3% in 2020 to a total of 483, despite the pandemic, according to the EPO Patent Index 2020 published today. The increase follows a 10.8% decrease in the previous year. The top four technology fields with the […]

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Polish companies and universities file fewer patent applications at the European Patent Office in 2019

Patent applications filed by Polish companies, universities, and research institutions with the European Patent Office (EPO) decreased by 9.6% in 2019, according to the EPO Patent Index 2019 published today. The drop follows two years of strong growth, continuing a pattern of two years of strong growth being followed by a year of decreasing patent […]