Icelandic patent applications to the European Patent Office

Rán Tryggvadóttir

Rättsfall | Island | 5/25/2026

Icelandic patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) have never been as many.

Icelandic patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) have never been as many as last year or 76 in total. That is 23% increase from the year 2024 and 81% increase from the year 2023. On a per capita basis it is 20 application per hundred thousand inhabitants in the year 2025 and places Iceland in 14th place among EPO member states. See the news item from the Icelandic Intellectual Property Office here,  and the EPO Technology Dashboard 2025 here

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