Information & Influence

Cultural & Language Institutes

The capacity to teach the nation to the world: institute networks, language programmes and the standing people-to-people machinery that makes a culture learnable from anywhere. One of the capabilities of Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy.

International families: 5802015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.0× the next
All families: 4,409home filings included
Over five years: Steady2020 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

South Korea

Japan

China

Taiwan

Israel

United Kingdom

India

France

Australia

150

146

100


1	United States	150	25.9%	1.1×	414
2	South Korea	146	25.2%	1.0×	1,656
3	Japan	100	17.2%	1.0×	476
4	China	41	7.1%	0.5×	1,522
5	Taiwan	19	3.3%	1.1×	92
6	Israel	13	2.2%	1.2×	23
7	United Kingdom	12	2.1%	0.3×	19
8	India	11	1.9%	0.6×	15
9	France	8	1.4%	3.0×	12
10	Australia	8	1.4%	0.6×	13
11	Singapore	7	1.2%	2.5×	10
12	Russia	7	1.2%	0.8×	30
13	Germany	6	1.0%	2.0×	24
14	Türkiye	6	1.0%	2.0×	11
15	Switzerland	4	0.7%	0.3×	6
16	Canada	4	0.7%	0.3×	13
17	Hong Kong	4	0.7%	1.0×	8
18	Italy	3	0.5%	0.5×	8
19	Belgium	3	0.5%	0.0×	4
20	Poland	3	0.5%	0.5×	8
21	Sweden	2	0.3%	0.0×	4
22	Finland	2	0.3%	0.0×	3
23	Denmark	2	0.3%	–	3
24	Cayman Islands	2	0.3%	1.0×	2
25	Spain	1	0.2%	0.0×	1
26	Norway	1	0.2%	0.0×	1
27	Ireland	1	0.2%	–	2
28	New Zealand	1	0.2%	–	1
29	Czechia	1	0.2%	0.0×	2
30	Malaysia	1	0.2%	–	1
31	Portugal	1	0.2%	0.0×	3
32	Brazil	0	0.0%	–	2
33	Saudi Arabia	0	0.0%	–	2
34	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 Cultural & Language Institutes. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

580 international families

CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD · Japan

NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE · Japan

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC · United States

PEARSON EDUCATION INC · United States

LEARNING SQUARED INC · United States

MIRINAE TECH INC · South Korea

United States

150 international families

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

PEARSON EDUCATION INC

LEARNING SQUARED INC

SQUARE PANDA INC

GOOGLE LLC

GOOGLE INC

South Korea

146 international families

MIRINAE TECH INC

NAVER CORP

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

ENC CO LTD

HEY STARS

SENSEE INC

Japan

100 international families

CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD

NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE

LANGUAGE R & D LLC

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD

PROGRIT INC

SONY CORP

China

41 international families

ZHOU LIANHUI

BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECH CO LTD

CHEN YITIAN

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

BEIJING BYTRDANCE NETWORK TECH CO LTD

Taiwan

0.1% shared · 46 families in both

Japan

United States

China

South Korea

Taiwan

9,492

7,019

6,834

3,079

1,031

Crosswalk

How Cultural & Language Institutes 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
G09B19/06	Foreign languages	Teaching foreign languages	2	2	21,623
G09B19/04	Speaking	Teaching speaking and pronunciation	1	1	3,786

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 Cultural & Language Institutes: 3 codes on 16,625 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G09B19/06	Foreign languages	G09B19/06	In the scheme	11,036
G09B19/04	Speaking	G09B19/04	In the scheme	3,786
G09B19/08	Printed or written appliances, e.g. text books, bilingual letter assemblies, charts	G09B19/06	In the scheme	1,803

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 language-teaching appliances only, whichever language they teach; institute networks are not captured. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy

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