Patent applications to the EPO by priority year, by international patent classification (IPC) sections, classes and metropolitan regions [met_pat_epipc]
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Frequency [FREQ]
Unit of measure [unit]
International patent classification (IPC) [ipc]
Metropolitan regions [metroreg]
Dataset has 22,633 series. Add search filters to narrow them.
Series code | 1994 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 1992 | 1995 | 1996 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1993 | 1978 |
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A.NR.A.CZ002M | 1 | 2.79 | 4.34 | 0.89 | 2.5 | 1.86 | 4 | 5.07 | 2.5 | 2.96 | 4.42 | 8.02 | 1.78 | 2.67 | 1.38 | 3.98 | 3.13 | ||||||||||||||||||
A.NR.A.CZ003M | 0.5 | 2.27 | 2.53 | 2.18 | 1.75 | 1.66 | 1.68 | 0.21 | 1 | 2.2 | 2.83 | 1.54 | 2.2 | 0.99 | 3.02 | 0.35 | 1 | 1 | 2.05 | ||||||||||||||||
A.NR.A.CZ004M | 1.25 | 0.19 | 0.05 | 1 | 0.65 | 1.13 | 1.63 | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A.NR.A.DE001MC | 68.23 | 82.54 | 114.53 | 134.47 | 108.38 | 133.23 | 164.35 | 174.23 | 174.58 | 178.64 | 152.89 | 175.84 | 164.79 | 110.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||
A.NR.A.DE002M | 88.17 | 118.83 | 170.29 | 188.05 | 177.94 | 241.08 | 217.21 | 235.13 | 202.97 | 224.87 | 189.21 | 176.52 | 211.37 | 203.72 | 180.87 | 231.38 | 203.32 | 64.49 | 75.82 | 105.79 | 14.99 | 30.85 | 37.44 | 36.28 | 38.95 | 57.89 | 52.59 | 56.44 | 59.52 | 50.59 | 62.17 | 50.73 | 53.68 | 83.28 | |
A.NR.A.DE003M | 83.59 | 125.14 | 132.47 | 166.36 | 171.21 | 152.96 | 182.16 | 155.01 | 183.72 | 190.33 | 207.97 | 267.32 | 215.08 | 207.63 | 187.31 | 186.7 | 135.25 | 92.15 | 89.58 | 99.3 | 55.16 | 57.17 | 53.53 | 75.61 | 66.07 | ||||||||||
A.NR.A.DE004M | 62.37 | 59.97 | 63.2 | 74.51 | 74.43 | 73.31 | 71.76 | 74.34 | 80.69 | 78.23 | 109.08 | 86.72 | 78.99 | 80.01 | 76.99 | 62.41 | 50.47 | 62.66 | 68.15 | 67.57 | 35.33 | 46.37 | 45.72 | 71.65 | 60.2 | 61.92 | 51.16 | 43.98 | 63.04 | 57.93 | 60.77 | 47.67 | 70.31 | 54.12 | 40.86 |
A.NR.A.DE005M | 116.19 | 155.88 | 211.67 | 153.34 | 166.86 | 173.58 | 161.46 | 146.31 | 159.14 | 198.63 | 164.76 | 238.01 | 188.01 | 228.41 | 233.01 | 257.49 | 142.18 | 101.18 | 101.45 | 129.47 | 67.74 | 64.44 | 85.12 | 78.05 | 112.91 | 104.01 | 102.81 | 100.15 | 112.62 | 110.98 | 99.71 | ||||
A.NR.A.DE007M | 42.06 | 64.72 | 71.04 | 63.74 | 65.01 | 55.42 | 59.34 | 80.29 | 75.68 | 91.53 | 76.24 | 110.68 | 94.43 | 89.24 | 109.31 | 91.57 | 77.07 | 40.93 | 62.19 | 57.98 | 20.5 | 26.91 | 18.14 | 23.08 | 32.34 | 42.27 | 34.89 | 38.31 | 48.4 | 56.08 | 50.33 | 53.89 | 43.87 | 43.47 | 8.16 |
A.NR.A.DE008M | 1.26 | 7.5 | 8.53 | 8.51 | 8.77 | 13.17 | 6.64 | 11.35 | 5.68 | 13.24 | 11.61 | 9.43 | 2.28 | 2.49 |
Dimension codes and labels
[FREQ] Frequency
- [A] Annual
[unit] Unit of measure
- [NR] Number
[ipc] International patent classification (IPC)
- [A] Section A - Human necessities
- [A01] Agriculture; forestry; animal husbandry; hunting; trapping; fishing
- [A21] Baking; equipment for making or processing doughs; doughs for baking
- [A22] Butchering; meat treatment; processing poultry or fish
- [A23] Foods or foodstuffs; their treatment, not covered by other classes
- [A24] Tobacco; cigars; cigarettes; smokers' requisites
- [A41] Wearing apparel
- [A42] Headwear
- [A43] Footwear
- [A44] Haberdashery; jewellery
- [A45] Hand or travelling articles
- [A46] Brushware
- [A47] Furniture; domestic articles or appliances; coffee mills; spice mills; suction cleaners in general
- [A61] Medical or veterinary science; hygiene
- [A62] Life-saving; fire-fighting
- [A63] Sports; games; amusements
- [B] Section B - Performing operations; transporting
- [B01] Physical or chemical processes or apparatus in general
- [B02] Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating; preparatory treatment of grain for milling
- [B03] Separation of solid materials using liquids or using pneumatic tables or jigs; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids; separation by high-voltage electric fields
- [B04] Centrifugal apparatus or machines for carrying-out physical or chemical processes
- [B05] Spraying or atomising in general; applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general
- [B06] Generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations in general
- [B07] Separating solids from solids; sorting
- [B08] Cleaning
- [B09] Disposal of solid waste; reclamation of contaminated soil
- [B21] Mechanical metal-working without essentially removing material; punching metal
- [B22] Casting; powder metallurgy
- [B23] Machine tools; metal-working not otherwise provided for
- [B24] Grinding; polishing
- [B25] Hand tools; portable power-driven tools; handles for hand implements; workshop equipment; manipulators
- [B26] Hand cutting tools; cutting; severing
- [B27] Working or preserving wood or similar material; nailing or stapling machines in general
- [B28] Working cement, clay, or stone
- [B29] Working of plastics; working of substances in a plastic state in general
- [B30] Presses
- [B31] Making paper articles; working paper
- [B32] Layered products
- [B41] Printing; lining machines; typewriters; stamps
- [B42] Bookbinding; albums; files; special printed matter
- [B43] Writing or drawing implements; bureau accessories
- [B44] Decorative arts
- [B60] Vehicles in general
- [B61] Railways
- [B62] Land vehicles for travelling otherwise than on rails
- [B63] Ships or other waterborne vessels; related equipment
- [B64] Aircraft; aviation; cosmonautics
- [B65] Conveying; packing; storing; handling thin or filamentary material
- [B66] Hoisting; lifting; hauling
- [B67] Opening or closing bottles, jars or similar containers; liquid handling
- [B68] Saddlery; upholstery
- [B81] Micro-structural technology
- [B82] Nanotechnology
- [C] Section C - Chemistry; metallurgy
- [C01] Inorganic chemistry
- [C02] Treatment of water, waste water, sewage, or sludge
- [C03] Glass; mineral or slag wool
- [C04] Cements; concrete; artificial stone; ceramics; refractories
- [C05] Fertilisers; manufacture thereof
- [C06] Explosives; matches
- [C07] Organic chemistry
- [C08] Organic macromolecular compounds; their preparation or chemical working-up; compositions based thereon
- [C09] Dyes; paints; polishes; natural resins; adhesives; compositions not otherwise provided for; applications of materials not otherwise provided for
- [C10] Petroleum, gas or coke industries; technical gases containing carbon monoxide; fuels; lubricants; peat
- [C11] Animal or vegetable oils, fats, fatty substances or waxes; fatty acids therefrom; detergents; candles
- [C12] Biochemistry; beer; spirits; wine; vinegar; microbiology; enzymology; mutation or genetic engineering
- [C13] Sugar industry
- [C14] Skins; hides; pelts; leather
- [C21] Metallurgy of iron
- [C22] Metallurgy; ferrous or non-ferrous alloys; treatment of alloys or non-ferrous metals
- [C23] Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; chemical surface treatment; diffusion treatment of metallic material; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general; inhibiting corrosion of metallic material or incrustation in general
- [C25] Electrolytic or electrophoretic processes; apparatus therefor
- [C30] Crystal growth
- [C40] Combinatorial technology
- [D] Section D - Textiles; paper
- [D01] Natural or artificial threads or fibres; spinning
- [D02] Yarns; mechanical finishing of yarns or ropes; warping or beaming
- [D03] Weaving
- [D04] Braiding; lace-making; knitting; trimmings; non-woven fabrics
- [D05] Sewing; embroidering; tufting
- [D06] Treatment of textiles or the like; laundering; flexible materials not otherwise provided for
- [D07] Ropes; cables other than electric
- [D21] Paper-making; production of cellulose
- [E] Section E - Fixed constructions
- [E01] Construction of roads, railways, or bridges
- [E02] Hydraulic engineering; foundations; soil-shifting
- [E03] Water supply; sewerage
- [E04] Building
- [E05] Locks; keys; window or door fittings; safes
- [E06] Doors, windows, shutters, or roller blinds, in general; ladders
- [E21] Earth or rock drilling; mining
- [F] Section F - Mechanical engineering; lighting; heating; weapons; blasting
- [F01] Machines or engines in general; engine plants in general; steam engines
- [F02] Combustion engines; hot-gas or combustion-product engine plants
- [F03] Machines or engines for liquids; wind, spring, or weight motors; producing mechanical power or a reactive propulsive thrust, not otherwise provided for
- [F04] Positive-displacement machines for liquids; pumps for liquids or elastic fluids
- [F15] Fluid-pressure actuators; hydraulics or pneumatics in general
- [F16] Engineering elements or units; general measures for producing and maintaining effective functioning of machines or installations; thermal insulation in general
- [F17] Storing or distributing gases or liquids
- [F21] Lighting
- [F22] Steam generation
- [F23] Combustion apparatus; combustion processes
- [F24] Heating; ranges; ventilating
- [F25] Refrigeration or cooling; combined heating and refrigeration systems; heat pump systems; manufacture or storage of ice; liquefaction or solidification of gases
- [F26] Drying
- [F27] Furnaces; kilns; ovens; retorts
- [F28] Heat exchange in general
- [F41] Weapons
- [F42] Ammunition; blasting
- [G] Section G - Physics
- [G01] Measuring; testing
- [G02] Optics
- [G03] Photography; cinematography; analogous techniques using waves other than optical waves; electrography; holography
- [G04] Horology
- [G05] Controlling; regulating
- [G06] Computing; calculating; counting
- [G07] Checking-devices
- [G08] Signalling
- [G09] Educating; cryptography; display; advertising; seals
- [G10] Musical instruments; acoustics
- [G11] Information storage
- [G12] Instrument details
- [G21] Nuclear physics; nuclear engineering
- [H] Section H - Electricity
- [H01] Basic electric elements
- [H02] Generation, conversion, or distribution of electric power
- [H03] Basic electronic circuitry
- [H04] Electric communication technique
- [H05] Electric techniques not otherwise provided for
- [IPC] International patent classification (IPC) - total
- [UNK] Unknown
[metroreg] Metropolitan regions
- [AT001MC] Wien
- [AT002M] Graz
- [AT003M] Linz
- [AT004M] Salzburg
- [AT005M] Innsbruck
- [AT_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Austria
- [BE001MC_10] Bruxelles / Brussel (NUTS 2010)
- [BE002M] Antwerpen
- [BE003M] Gent
- [BE004M] Charleroi
- [BE005M_10] Liège (NUTS 2010)
- [BE_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Belgium
- [BG001MC] Sofia
- [BG002M] Plovdiv
- [BG003M] Varna
- [CH001M] Zürich
- [CH002M] Genève
- [CH003M] Basel
- [CH004MC] Bern
- [CH005M] Lausanne
- [CH_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Switzerland
- [CY001MC] Lefkosia
- [CZ001MC] Praha
- [CZ002M] Brno
- [CZ003M] Ostrava
- [CZ004M] Plzen
- [CZ_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Czech Republic
- [DE001MC] Berlin
- [DE002M] Hamburg
- [DE003M] München
- [DE004M] Köln
- [DE005M] Frankfurt am Main
- [DE007M] Stuttgart
- [DE008M] Leipzig
- [DE009M] Dresden
- [DE011M] Düsseldorf
- [DE012M] Bremen
- [DE013M] Hannover
- [DE014M] Nürnberg
- [DE017M] Bielefeld
- [DE018M] Halle an der Saale
- [DE019M] Magdeburg
- [DE020M] Wiesbaden
- [DE021M] Göttingen
- [DE025M] Darmstadt
- [DE027M] Freiburg im Breisgau
- [DE028M] Regensburg
- [DE031M] Schwerin
- [DE032M] Erfurt
- [DE033M] Augsburg
- [DE034M] Bonn
- [DE035M] Karlsruhe
- [DE036M] Mönchengladbach
- [DE037M] Mainz
- [DE038M] Ruhrgebiet
- [DE039M] Kiel
- [DE040M] Saarbrücken
- [DE042M] Koblenz
- [DE043M] Rostock
- [DE044M] Kaiserslautern
- [DE045M] Iserlohn
- [DE052M] Flensburg
- [DE053M] Marburg
- [DE054M] Konstanz
- [DE057M] Gießen
- [DE059M] Bayreuth
- [DE061M] Aschaffenburg
- [DE063M] Plauen
- [DE064M_10] Neubrandenburg (NUTS 2010)
- [DE069M] Rosenheim
- [DE073M] Offenburg
- [DE074M] Görlitz
- [DE077M] Schweinfurt
- [DE079M] Wetzlar
- [DE083M] Braunschweig-Salzgitter-Wolfsburg
- [DE084M_10] Mannheim-Ludwigshafen (NUTS 2010)
- [DE504M] Münster
- [DE507M] Aachen
- [DE510M] Lübeck
- [DE513M] Kassel
- [DE517M] Osnabrück
- [DE520M] Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
- [DE522M_10] Heidelberg (NUTS 2010)
- [DE523M] Paderborn
- [DE524M] Würzburg
- [DE527M] Bremerhaven
- [DE529M] Heilbronn
- [DE532M] Ulm
- [DE533M] Pforzheim
- [DE534M] Ingolstadt
- [DE537M] Reutlingen
- [DE540M] Siegen
- [DE542M] Hildesheim
- [DE544M] Zwickau
- [DE546M] Wuppertal
- [DE_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Germany
- [DK001MC] København
- [DK002M] Århus
- [DK003M] Odense
- [DK004M] Aalborg
- [DK_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Denmark
- [EE001MC] Tallinn
- [EE_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Estonia
- [EL001MC] Athina
- [EL002M] Thessaloniki
- [ES001MC] Madrid
- [ES002M] Barcelona
- [ES003M] Valencia
- [ES004M] Sevilla
- [ES005M] Zaragoza
- [ES006M] Málaga - Marbella
- [ES007M] Murcia - Cartagena
- [ES008M] Las Palmas
- [ES009M] Valladolid
- [ES010M] Palma de Mallorca
- [ES012M] Vitoria/Gasteiz
- [ES013M] Oviedo - Gijón
- [ES014M] Pamplona/Iruña
- [ES015M] Santander
- [ES019M] Bilbao
- [ES020M] Córdoba
- [ES021M] Alicante/Alacant - Elche/Elx
- [ES022M] Vigo
- [ES025M] Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- [ES026M] A Coruña
- [ES501M] Granada
- [ES510M] Guipúzcoa
- [ES522M] Cádiz
- [FI001MC] Helsinki
- [FI002M_10] Tampere (NUTS 2010)
- [FI003M] Turku
- [FI_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Finland
- [FR001MC] Paris
- [FR003M] Lyon
- [FR004M] Toulouse
- [FR006M] Strasbourg
- [FR007M] Bordeaux
- [FR008M] Nantes
- [FR009M] Lille - Dunkerque - Valenciennes
- [FR010M] Montpellier
- [FR011M] Saint-Etienne
- [FR013M] Rennes
- [FR014M] Amiens
- [FR015M] Rouen
- [FR016M] Nancy
- [FR018M] Reims
- [FR019M] Orléans
- [FR020M] Dijon
- [FR021M] Poitiers
- [FR022M] Clermont-Ferrand
- [FR023M] Caen
- [FR024M] Limoges
- [FR025M] Besançon
- [FR026M] Grenoble
- [FR032M] Toulon
- [FR035M] Tours
- [FR036M] Angers
- [FR037M] Brest
- [FR038M] Le Mans
- [FR039M] Avignon
- [FR040M] Mulhouse
- [FR043M] Perpignan
- [FR044M] Nimes
- [FR045M] Pau
- [FR203M_10] Marseille (NUTS 2010)
- [FR205M] Nice
- [HR001MC_10] Zagreb (NUTS 2010)
- [HR005M] Split
- [HU001MC] Budapest
- [HU002M] Miskolc
- [HU004M] Pécs
- [HU005M] Debrecen
- [HU009M] Székesfehérvár
- [HU_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Hungary
- [IE001MC] Dublin
- [IE002M] Cork
- [IE_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Ireland
- [IS_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Iceland
- [IT001MC] Roma
- [IT002M] Milano
- [IT003M] Napoli
- [IT004M] Torino
- [IT005M] Palermo
- [IT006M] Genova
- [IT007M] Firenze
- [IT008M] Bari
- [IT009M] Bologna
- [IT010M] Catania
- [IT011M] Venezia
- [IT012M] Verona
- [IT022M] Taranto
- [IT027M] Cagliari
- [IT028M] Padova
- [IT029M] Brescia
- [IT030M] Modena
- [IT501M] Messina
- [IT502M] Prato
- [IT503M] Parma
- [IT_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Italy
- [LT001MC] Vilnius
- [LT002M] Kaunas
- [LU001MC] Luxembourg
- [LV001MC] Riga
- [LV_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Latvia
- [MT001MC] Valletta
- [MT_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Malta
- [NL001M] s' Gravenhage
- [NL002MC_10] Amsterdam (NUTS 2010)
- [NL003M] Rotterdam
- [NL004M] Utrecht
- [NL005M] Eindhoven
- [NL006M] Tilburg
- [NL007M_10] Groningen (NUTS 2010)
- [NL008M] Enschede
- [NL009M] Arnhem - Nijmegen
- [NL010M] Heerlen
- [NL012M] Breda
- [NL503M] s-Hertogenbosch
- [NL_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Netherlands
- [NO001MC] Oslo
- [NO002M] Bergen
- [NO_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Norway
- [PL001MC] Warszawa
- [PL002M] Lódz
- [PL003M] Kraków
- [PL004M] Wroclaw
- [PL005M] Poznan
- [PL006M] Gdansk
- [PL007M] Szczecin
- [PL008M] Bydgoszcz - Torún
- [PL009M] Lublin
- [PL010M] Katowice
- [PL011M] Bialystok
- [PL012M] Kielce
- [PL015M] Rzeszów
- [PL016M] Opole
- [PL024M] Czestochowa
- [PL025M] Radom
- [PL506M] Bielsko-Biala
- [PL514M] Tarnów
- [PT001MC] Lisboa
- [PT002M_10] Porto (NUTS 2010)
- [PT005M] Coimbra
- [RO001MC_10] Bucuresti (NUTS 2010)
- [RO002M] Cluj-Napoca
- [RO003M] Timisoara
- [RO004M] Craiova
- [RO501M] Constanta
- [RO502M] Iasi
- [RO503M] Galati
- [RO504M] Brasov
- [SE001MC] Stockholm
- [SE002M] Göteborg
- [SE003M] Malmö
- [SE006M] Uppsala
- [SE_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Sweden
- [SI001MC_10] Ljubljana (NUTS 2010)
- [SI002M] Maribor
- [SI_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Slovenia
- [SK001MC] Bratislava
- [SK002M] Kosice
- [SK_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in Slovakia
- [UK001MC_10] London (NUTS 2010)
- [UK002M] West Midlands urban area
- [UK003M] Leeds
- [UK004M] Glasgow
- [UK005M] Bradford
- [UK006M] Liverpool
- [UK007M] Edinburgh
- [UK008M_10] Manchester (NUTS 2010)
- [UK009M] Cardiff
- [UK010M] Sheffield
- [UK011M] Bristol
- [UK012M] Belfast
- [UK013M] Newcastle upon Tyne
- [UK014M] Leicester
- [UK016M] Aberdeen
- [UK017M] Cambridge
- [UK018M] Exeter
- [UK023M_10] Portsmouth (NUTS 2010)
- [UK025M] Coventry
- [UK026M] Kingston upon Hull
- [UK027M] Stoke-on-Trent
- [UK029M] Nottingham
- [UK501M] Kirklees
- [UK506M] Doncaster
- [UK510M] Sunderland
- [UK515M] Brighton and Hove
- [UK517M] Swansea
- [UK518M] Derby
- [UK520M] Southampton
- [UK539M] Bournemouth
- [UK552M] Reading
- [UK553M_10] Blackburn - Blackpool - Preston (NUTS 2010)
- [UK559M] Middlesbrough
- [UK566M_10] Norwich (NUTS 2010)
- [UK568M] Cheshire West and Chester
- [UK_NM] Non-metropolitan regions in United Kingdom