The num­ber of Eu­ro­pean pa­tent applica­tions from Fin­nish com­pa­nies con­ti­nued to inc­rea­se in 2024

The European Patent Office (EPO) has published its European Patent Index 2024, presenting statistics of European Patent (EP) applications. The EPO’s data for 2024 offer the following insights:

• The EPO received almost 200,000 patent applications last year. The largest applicant countries were the United States, Germany, Japan, China and South Korea.
• In 2024, Finnish companies filed 2,400 EP applications with the EPO. Finland ranks 14th in the statistics of countries applying for European patents.
• Relative to the population, Finland makes the third highest number of EP applications in the world, behind only Switzerland and Sweden.
• The number of EP applications filed by Finnish companies increased by 2.7%. 2024 was the fifth consecutive year in which the number of applications increased.
• Nokia is the largest Finnish patent applicant, ranking 12th in the list of total applications and 5th for the number of applications for patents related to digital communication.
• 29% of applications submitted by Finns included at least one female inventor. This is the fourth highest of all the major European patent applicants.

More detailed statistics can be found on the EPO website.Open link in a new tab

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