- International families
- 1762015 to 2024
- Leading country
- South Korea1.4× the next
- All families
- 1,273home filings included
- Over five years
- Falling2020 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
South Korea
United States
Japan
China
India
Taiwan
Italy
Israel
United Kingdom
Denmark
64
45
18
13
5
4
3
3
2
2
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 64 | 36.4% | 1.1× | 595 | |
| 2 | United States | 45 | 25.6% | 0.5× | 146 | |
| 3 | Japan | 18 | 10.2% | 0.5× | 19 | |
| 4 | China | 13 | 7.4% | 1.6× | 446 | |
| 5 | India | 5 | 2.8% | 1.5× | 10 | |
| 6 | Taiwan | 4 | 2.3% | 0.3× | 5 | |
| 7 | Italy | 3 | 1.7% | 0.5× | 5 | |
| 8 | Israel | 3 | 1.7% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 2 | 1.1% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 10 | Denmark | 2 | 1.1% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 11 | Ireland | 2 | 1.1% | 1.0× | 3 | |
| 12 | Hong Kong | 2 | 1.1% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 13 | Germany | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 14 | France | 1 | 0.6% | – | 1 | |
| 15 | Switzerland | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 16 | Netherlands | 1 | 0.6% | – | 1 | |
| 17 | Canada | 1 | 0.6% | – | 5 | |
| 18 | Finland | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 19 | Australia | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 20 | Türkiye | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 21 | Brazil | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 8 | |
| 22 | Poland | 1 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 23 | Belgium | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | 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 Foundational Digital Skills. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
176 international families
JEONG HEE YONG · South Korea
LUXROBO CO LTD · South Korea
LUXROBO CORP · South Korea
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC · United States
PROOFPOINT INC · United States
SHANGHAI SENSETIME INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD · China
5
5
5
4
4
4
South Korea
64 international families
JEONG HEE YONG
LUXROBO CO LTD
LUXROBO CORP
BLUECOMMUNICATION
CREAMO INC
IOTED CO LTD
5
5
5
3
3
3
United States
45 international families
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
PROOFPOINT INC
CIRCADENCE CORP
KNOWBE4 INC
APPLE INC
3Sharp LLC
4
4
3
3
2
1
Japan
18 international families
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC
CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
ICON CORP
ICON KK
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
SONY CORP
4
3
3
3
3
2
China
13 international families
SHANGHAI SENSETIME INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD
SHANGHAI SHANGTANG INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD
SHI ZHENG
GENG XIAOJU
HAINAN JUYUAN TECH CO LTD
HANGZHOU GDW ROBOT CO LTD
4
2
2
1
1
1
India
5 international families
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
GRASP 10 INNOVATIONS PVT LTD
GRASP IO INNOVATIONS PVT LTD
NEXT SKILLS 360 EDTECH PRIVATE LTD
TATA CONSULTANCY LTD SERVICES
3
1
1
1
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Foundational Digital Skills, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
Human Capital
Foundational Learning
2.0% shared · 127 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
1,468
1,054
1,039
901
207
Strategic Infrastructure
Education & Skills Infrastructure
1.3% shared · 176 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
3,247
2,198
1,763
1,499
503
Human Capital
Occupational Skills & Certification
0.7% shared · 23 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
747
563
319
294
184
Human Capital
Inclusive Reach
0.2% shared · 2 families in both
United States
South Korea
Japan
China
Germany
267
141
125
72
46
Information & Influence
Cultural & Language Institutes
0.1% shared · 1 families in both
United States
South Korea
Japan
China
Taiwan
150
146
100
41
19
National Security
Defensive Cyber Operations
0.1% shared · 19 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
5,863
1,954
1,881
1,128
878
National Security
Standing Force Generation & Training
0.1% shared · 1 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Canada
217
90
58
38
30
Production & Innovation
Employment Services & Skills Matching
0.1% shared · 1 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
India
254
109
71
70
44
Information & Influence
Creative Industries & Cultural Export Reach
0.1% shared · 20 families in both
Japan
United States
China
South Korea
Taiwan
9,492
7,019
6,834
3,079
1,031
Crosswalk
How Foundational Digital Skills is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G09B19/0053 | Computers, e.g. programming | Teaching computer use and programming | 1 | none | 3,317 |
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 Foundational Digital Skills: 1 codes on 3,317 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G09B19/0053 | Computers, e.g. programming | G09B19/0053 | In the scheme | 3,317 |
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