Patent applicants and applications; applicant enterprise size, 2000-2010

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This table contains data on the number of patent applicants and applications from the Netherlands at the European Patent Office (EPO) and NL Patent Centre, a division of Agency NL (NLOC). Patents may be granted to companies, universities, institutions, individuals or other entities as long as the invention meets the conditions for patentability. To qualify for a patent, an invention must be new, inventive and admissible for industrial application. Whether an invention meets these criteria is tested by a patent office such as the EPO or the NLOC. The patent office will eventually accept or reject the application. The data are broken down by company size of the applicant company. The figures indicate which size classes of companies in Dutch society are (most) innovative. This table has been discontinued. Data available from 2000 to 2010. Status of the figures: The data until 2009 are final. The data for 2010 are provisional. As this table has been discontinued, the data will no longer be finalised. Changes as of 30 October 2015: None, this table has been discontinued. When will there be new figures? No longer applicable.

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0 https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/80813ned/table
23 https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/80813ned/table

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