Europe's Innovation Strength Holds, but Challenges Loom, EPO Report Finds

Patent Index 2024: Nearly one in four patent applications is filed by a small company

Companies and inventors from all over the world filed 199,264 patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) last year, according to the Patent Index 2024 published today. The Industrial Property Organization stated in its announcement regarding the findings of the European Patent Office’s innovation index (Patent Index 2024) that the high level of patent filing activity was about the same as the previous year (2023: 199,452, -0.1%), fo…

Portugal filed a record number of patent applications with the European Patent Organization in 2024 and a new record is expected this year. Sandro Mendona, from the Patents and Technology Observatory, argues that these indicators show a country that is innovating from year to year.

Today's news that Germany is a European champion in patents didn't rip me off at first. I thought: Sure, everything is probably patented with us – sounds more like bureaucracy than genius. But when you look closer, it became clear: Germany is quite inventive. Especially with digital key technologies, patent applications increased by 6.6 percent – there is probably more thinking about the future here than paperwork. The post Germany is a patent E…

Europe's Innovation Strength Holds, but Challenges Loom, EPO Report Finds

New data from the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals that, in front of economic difficulties, Europe’s intellectual scene is nevertheless robust. About 200,000 patent applications were filed last year, according to the Patent Index 2024; artificial intelligence (AI) and battery technology … Read more Continue reading Europe’s Innovation Strength Holds, but Challenges Loom, EPO Report Finds at The Brussels Morning Newspaper.

In a world where innovation makes the difference between leadership and irrelevance, Spain is making steady progress. In 2024, Spanish companies and inventors submitted 2,192 applications for European patents, 3% more than the previous year and signing the largest increase in annual applications for European patents from among the most active countries of the EPO (those with more than 2,000 applications per year). Since 2015, the growth rate has…

Portuguese entities filed 347 patent applications in 2024, 4.8% more than in 2023. In 48% of the orders there is at least one inventor. Only North Macedonia has more.