Significant growth of patent applications from Poles to EPO - up by17.8%

According to the European Patent Office (EPO), in 2015 the number of patent applications to the EPO from Poland amounted to 568 (17.8 percent increase y/y). Poland has been a member of the EPO since March 1, 2004. "With regard to the ten most important areas of technology in the EPO, the number of Polish patent applications recorded the biggest growth in pharmacy (+ 222 percent), organic chemistry (+ 105 percent) and material chemistry (+100 percent). In general, most applications for technology division came from organic chemistry (8 percent of applications), civil engineering (7 percent) and measurement (6 percent), " the report found. Poland is not the only state from which patent applications to the EPO increased. Italy, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Austria, Sweden and others increased applications as well [though, not as significantly as Poland]. Finland, Germany and Denmark indicated a decrease (-8.3 percent, -3.2 percent and -2.7 percent repectively).