EU patents packaging material increased by 617 since 2014

20 March 2018

In a press release published on 7 March 2018, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that they received nearly 166 000 European patent applications in 2017, an increase of +3.9% and an all-time high. The EPO's Annual Report 2017 also shows that the EPO published some 106 000 granted European patents in 2017, up 10.1% on the previous year. The five most active countries of origin in 2017 were the US, Germany, Japan, France and China.
The European patent register holds 2,004 patents with the search term ‘packaging material’ (search done by NVC on 15 March 2018). This is an increase of 617 in four years’ time. On 18 March 2014 NVC did the same search and that resulted in1,487 patents.
Click here for the press release, including background information.
Click here for the report.
Click here for the European patent register with search term packaging material.
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