So-called 'IP' Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-08-26 23:16:30 UTC
Modified: 2021-08-26 23:16:30 UTC

Recently: How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)

Summary: A quick look at the (relative) irrelevance of Baltic states to the EPO, where they enjoy a vote as powerful as that of the UK, France, Germany and other large economies with hundreds of thousands of patents

"The national Patent Offices of the Baltic States publish official statistics relating to "IP" protection," a reader has told us. "Most of the registration activity is in the area of "trademarks" and "designs", with very little under "patents"."

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Total of 1,785 validated patents? Hard to tell because of the language, so we've taken two screenshots from the latest PDF.

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So-called 'IP' Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents

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