Significant growth of patent applications from Poles to EPO - up to 17,8%

According to European Patent Office (EPO), the number of patent applications to EPO from Poland in 2015, amounted to 568 (17.8% y/y increase). Just to remind, Poland is a member of EPO since March 1, 2004. "With regard to 10 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 materials 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), " - written in the report. Poland is not the only state to raise patent applications to EPO. Italy, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Austria, Sweden and others increased applications as well [though, not so significant as Poland]. Finland, Germany and Denmark indicated a decrease (-8,3 percent, -3,2 percent and -2,7 percent relatively).