This Eurostat dataset contains data on patent applications to the epo by priority year by international patent classification (ipc) sections and classes (1977-2012), as collected and published by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

Tables included:

• raw: Original table as downloaded from Eurostat.
• tidy: A cleaned and transformed version of the raw table, where time period values appear as rows instead of columns (unpivoted format).

Last updated: 2019-03-21T23:00:00+0100