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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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 […]
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 […]