36% OF IRISH APPLICATIONS BECAME

INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN 2012

IRELAND

AS A PATENT NATION

14%

15%

71%

OF IRISH APPLICANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL

APPLICATIONS FILED IN 2012 WERE

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

OF IRISH APPLICANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL

APPLICATIONS FILED IN 2012 WERE

INDIVIDUAL INVENTORS

OF IRISH APPLICANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL

APPLICATIONS FILED IN 2012 WERE

CORPORATE BODIES

34% OF EUROPEAN APPLICATIONS FILED BY IRISH APPLICANTS IN 2012 WERE

GRANTED AS EUROPEAN PATENTS

9% IN 2012

6% IN 2012

THE NUMBER OF

EUROPEAN

APPLICATIONS

FILED BY IRISH

APPLICANTS WERE

DOWN BY

THE NUMBER OF

EUROPEAN

PATENTS GRANTED

TO IRISH

APPLICANTS WERE

UP BY

ELECTRICAL

INSTRUMENTS

CHEMISTRY

MECHANICAL

OTHER

APPLICATIONS PATENTS

FIELDS OF TECHNOLOGY OF EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONS FILED BY

AND EUROPEAN PATENTS GRANTED TO IRISH APPLICANTS IN 2012

638 INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS WERE

FILED BY IRISH APPLICANTS IN 2012

MCMXCII IRELAND HAS BEEN AN EPC CONTRACTING STATE SINCE 1992

SOURCES http://www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports-statistics.html

http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/patents/901/wipo_pub_901_2013.pdf