Governance & Integrity

Access to Justice & Legal Services

The capacity to open the courts to everyone: legal aid and assistance machinery, simplified procedure where it belongs and the reach that closes the gap between having a right and using it. One of the capabilities of Justice System & Fundamental Rights.

International families: 1,9912015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.6× the next
All families: 14khome filings included
Over five years: Rising2020 to 2024 against the five before

Year by year

Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.

Volume

International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Share by country

Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Country leaderboard

International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.

Ten largest

United States

Japan

South Korea

China

Canada

Germany

India

Cayman Islands

Australia

Taiwan

584

369

224

199


1	United States	584	29.3%	1.4×	1,806
2	Japan	369	18.5%	2.0×	1,497
3	South Korea	224	11.3%	1.7×	2,246
4	China	199	10.0%	0.7×	6,821
5	Canada	60	3.0%	0.9×	109
6	Germany	54	2.7%	1.2×	105
7	India	51	2.6%	1.4×	72
8	Cayman Islands	49	2.5%	0.0×	50
9	Australia	44	2.2%	0.8×	99
10	Taiwan	41	2.1%	0.2×	129
11	Switzerland	38	1.9%	1.9×	58
12	United Kingdom	36	1.8%	0.6×	79
13	France	29	1.5%	1.1×	86
14	Türkiye	20	1.0%	3.0×	32
15	Finland	19	1.0%	0.4×	24
16	Sweden	17	0.9%	0.7×	21
17	Israel	15	0.8%	0.9×	27
18	Singapore	15	0.8%	1.5×	21
19	Italy	12	0.6%	1.0×	25
20	Spain	12	0.6%	0.5×	18
21	Ireland	11	0.6%	1.2×	18
22	Saudi Arabia	10	0.5%	–	12
23	South Africa	9	0.5%	2.0×	9
24	Russia	8	0.4%	1.0×	19
25	Belgium	6	0.3%	1.0×	17
26	Brazil	6	0.3%	5.0×	22
27	Denmark	5	0.3%	1.5×	5
28	Netherlands	4	0.2%	3.0×	10
29	Hong Kong	4	0.2%	1.0×	8
30	New Zealand	4	0.2%	–	5
31	Portugal	3	0.2%	2.0×	3
32	Poland	2	0.1%	–	4
33	Hungary	2	0.1%	1.0×	2
34	Austria	1	0.1%	–	2
35	Norway	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
36	Liechtenstein	1	0.1%	–	1
37	Malaysia	1	0.1%	0.0×	2
38	Luxembourg	0	0.0%	–	1
39	Mexico	0	0.0%	–	1

Applicants

The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Access to Justice & Legal Services. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

1,991 international families

ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD · China

ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD · Cayman Islands

ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD · Cayman Islands

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD · China

LEGALON TECH INC · Japan

NEC CORP · Japan

United States

584 international families

DOCUSIGN INC

AON RISK SERVICES INC OF MARYLAND

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA

CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC

MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC

Japan

369 international families

LEGALON TECH INC

NEC CORP

SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LAB

FUJITSU LTD

HITACHI LTD

SONY GROUP CORP

South Korea

224 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

BHSN

CHO YOUNG HWA

KIM BO EON

KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

China

199 international families

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

BEIJING GRIDSUM TECHNOLOGY CO

SHENZHEN WINSTRONG INFORMATION TECH LTD

ALIPAY HANGZHOU INF TECH CO LTD

AOWEI INFORMATION TECH JIANGSU CO LTD

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

Canada

60 international families

UREEQA INC

ABAXX TECH INC

CRUMB JOSHUA

FEDAK ANDREW

WIKLOF CHRISTOPHER A

2715158 ONTARIO LTD

Similar capabilities

The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Access to Justice & Legal Services, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.

Strategic Infrastructure

2.1% shared · 381 families in both

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

4,952

2,438

1,902

1,526

1,399

Crosswalk

How Access to Justice & Legal Services is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 3 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.

Entry	Title in the scheme	Why it is chosen	CPC codes	IPC codes	Documents
G06Q50/18	Legal services	Software for legal services and legal documents	3	1	26,724
G06Q50/184	Intellectual property management	Left out
G06Q50/188	Electronic negotiation	Left out

CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.

The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Access to Justice & Legal Services: 3 codes on 18,798 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G06Q50/18	Legal services	G06Q50/18	In the scheme	17,295
G06Q50/182	Alternative dispute resolution	G06Q50/18	In the scheme	998
G06Q50/186	Estate planning	G06Q50/18	In the scheme	505

Match: Through its tools

The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. Captures legal-services software, largely commercial contract and document tools; intellectual property management and electronic negotiation are excluded in CPC but cannot be separated in IPC. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Justice System & Fundamental Rights

Judicial Independence & Court Capability
Fundamental Rights Protection
Human Rights Institutions & Equality Bodies