According to the Polish Patent Office, Poles filed 671 applications with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2023, which is over 10 % more than the year before. Most applications were received from the University of Zielona G\u00f3ra, the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.<\/p>\n
The average growth of all applications to the European patent system was 2.9% despite the economic crisis. 199,275 applications were filed in 2023, compared to 193,627 the year before. This means that Polish filings are growing at almost four times the overall average.<\/p>\n
In terms of growth rate, Poland is in seventh place among the members of the European Patent Organisation, this year ahead of only: Lithuania (+63.3% and 129 applications), Croatia (+59.4% and 51 applications), Slovenia (+24.4% and 153 applications), Cyprus (+23.3% and 53 applications), Slovakia (+16.7% and 56 applications) and Luxembourg (+11.9% and 385 applications). The European patent system is open to all countries in the world, so that globally Poland is overtaken, apart from the European countries mentioned, only by Singapore (+22.3% and 1 057 filings), South Korea (+21% and 12 575 filings) and New Zealand (+17.4% and 270 filings).<\/p>\n
It is worth noting that Poland, although having the tenth highest year-on-year increase in filings worldwide this year, ranks 25th among all reporting countries. The first places are occupied by: United States (+0.4% and 48,155 filings), Germany (+1.4% and 24,966 filings), Japan (-0.3% and 21,520 filings), China (+8.8% and 20,735 filings) and South Korea (+21% and 12,575 filings).<\/p>\n
On the other hand, in terms of European patent applications per million inhabitants, Poland ranks 30th in the world with 18 patents per 1 million. The global leaders are: Switzerland (1,085 applications per 1 million inhabitants), Sweden (495) and Denmark (445).<\/p>\n
Adrian Andrzejewski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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