[met_pat_epipc] Patent applications to the EPO by priority year, by international patent classification (IPC) sections, classes and metropolitan regions

Updated by provider on February 9, 2021 (10:11 AM).

Documentation

[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
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[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

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This dataset has 22,633 series:

Trim NA Values

Series code	1985	1987	1989	1990	1991	1993	1994	1995	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1986	1988	1992	1996
[A.NR.A.DE009M]	2.51	3.01	3.94	3.51	3.91	6.61	9.13	6.88	9.35	20.32	21.19	21.58	22.49	15.02	15.68	20.64	16.64	18.13	14.53	15.32	30.19	12.86	20.75	22.34	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
[A.NR.A.DE011M]	41.43	55	50.46	45.86	44.72	53.96	65.96	66.03	87.38	84.45	131.25	126.77	137.74	100.7	117.3	149.59	150.28	184.71	148.69	109.2	114.34	100.14	107.6	67.54	4.39	21.8	20.06	20.77	23.15	35.43	33.49	40.28	46.53	69.83	50.09	70.46
[A.NR.A.DE012M]	NA	NA	20.82	14.19	NA	11.72	6.03	11.87	15.39	NA	29.72	NA	24.67	NA	NA	NA	NA	24.73	20.29	19.31	19.23	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	11.39	NA	15.35
[A.NR.A.DE013M]	NA	14.17	16.72	17.06	18.16	13.61	14.84	12.82	21.42	16.24	29.35	30.28	45.15	30.57	36.05	29.98	48.59	27.97	25.03	25.68	27.23	20.76	26.63	20	NA	NA	8.86	NA	11.03	6.39	11.68	11.82	13.3	11.32	16.85	24.4
[A.NR.A.DE014M]	NA	62.6	NA	NA	34.69	35.51	47.43	24.18	40.47	56.45	67.65	NA	82.7	82.48	64.19	83.25	92.72	75.28	79.05	88.97	NA	91.06	68.14	53.22	NA	NA	28.22	NA	NA	NA	34.57	NA	79.13	50.9	NA	59.91
[A.NR.A.DE017M]	14.16	16.78	30.48	24.37	25.82	18.38	31.89	26.98	48.13	37.49	52.45	46.54	62.68	57.64	58.82	87.62	71.23	77.05	115.79	101.02	98.67	113.58	82.54	85.68	NA	NA	NA	NA	4.16	11.89	10.09	15.45	12.86	17.78	17.76	31.95
[A.NR.A.DE018M]	NA	NA	NA	0.35	NA	NA	NA	0.94	2.11	11.69	9.58	8.14	15.68	11.32	10.92	4.7	7.38	7.68	13.43	7.61	6.16	4.34	3.26	1.76	NA	NA	NA	NA	0.17	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	2.47
[A.NR.A.DE019M]	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	3.46	3.24	3.66	6.85	9.07	NA	8.93	4.16	4.3	NA	4.01	2.17	2.24	4.41	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	1.5
[A.NR.A.DE020M]	9.72	9.8	9.23	15.71	15.98	13.78	16.16	10.18	17.51	21.88	25.36	27.52	15.05	19.43	27.01	20.75	26.98	22.64	20.95	11.97	18.27	11.03	21.39	11.7	2.02	9.3	6.54	8.39	9.87	9.52	8.41	11.09	7.19	11.62	8.97	18.38
[A.NR.A.DE021M]	NA	7.52	12.67	NA	13.38	11.97	8.07	12.76	14.29	9.75	NA	16.73	17.49	23.11	17.14	22.91	16.07	19.18	23.08	17.79	11.97	17.41	18.64	16.59	NA	NA	2.28	3.93	NA	4.25	6.75	3.6	7.42	NA	8.91	5.95

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