- International families
- 1,4562015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States2.4× the next
- All families
- 15khome 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
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Canada
Israel
Cayman Islands
Switzerland
Germany
Australia
529
216
207
74
45
45
38
25
24
24
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 529 | 36.3% | 1.0× | 1,848 | |
| 2 | Japan | 216 | 14.8% | 1.2× | 1,062 | |
| 3 | China | 207 | 14.2% | 0.8× | 10,119 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 74 | 5.1% | 1.2× | 1,003 | |
| 5 | Canada | 45 | 3.1% | 0.9× | 91 | |
| 6 | Israel | 45 | 3.1% | 0.3× | 80 | |
| 7 | Cayman Islands | 38 | 2.6% | 0.0× | 38 | |
| 8 | Switzerland | 25 | 1.7% | 0.9× | 35 | |
| 9 | Germany | 24 | 1.6% | 0.8× | 79 | |
| 10 | Australia | 24 | 1.6% | 0.3× | 39 | |
| 11 | New Zealand | 24 | 1.6% | 3.8× | 24 | |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 21 | 1.4% | 0.6× | 30 | |
| 13 | India | 19 | 1.3% | 1.7× | 28 | |
| 14 | Singapore | 19 | 1.3% | 2.2× | 23 | |
| 15 | France | 18 | 1.2% | 0.5× | 28 | |
| 16 | Türkiye | 17 | 1.2% | 2.4× | 18 | |
| 17 | Ireland | 17 | 1.2% | 0.2× | 23 | |
| 18 | Taiwan | 15 | 1.0% | 0.7× | 27 | |
| 19 | Hong Kong | 11 | 0.8% | 0.2× | 14 | |
| 20 | Italy | 7 | 0.5% | 0.8× | 20 | |
| 21 | Denmark | 5 | 0.3% | 4.0× | 6 | |
| 22 | Belgium | 5 | 0.3% | 0.0× | 11 | |
| 23 | Finland | 4 | 0.3% | 0.3× | 4 | |
| 24 | South Africa | 4 | 0.3% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 25 | Malaysia | 4 | 0.3% | 1.0× | 4 | |
| 26 | Sweden | 3 | 0.2% | 0.5× | 6 | |
| 27 | Spain | 3 | 0.2% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 28 | Poland | 3 | 0.2% | 0.5× | 6 | |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 0.2% | – | 5 | |
| 30 | Netherlands | 1 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 31 | Russia | 1 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 32 | Brazil | 1 | 0.1% | – | 8 | |
| 33 | Luxembourg | 1 | 0.1% | – | 3 | |
| 34 | Mexico | 1 | 0.1% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 35 | Portugal | 1 | 0.1% | – | 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 Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
1,456 international families
INTUIT INC · United States
PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD · China
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD · China
ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD · Cayman Islands
TOSHIBA TEC KK · Japan
ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD · Cayman Islands
74
57
48
38
35
32
United States
529 international families
INTUIT INC
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC
HIGHRADIUS CORP
AVALARA INC
CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC
VISA INT SERVICE ASS
74
22
16
14
14
12
Japan
216 international families
TOSHIBA TEC KK
FUJITSU LTD
FAST ACCOUNTING CO LTD
FAST ACCOUNTING INC
HITACHI LTD
FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
35
15
13
10
10
8
China
207 international families
PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
TENCENT TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD
ALIPAY HANGZHOU INF TECH CO LTD
ALIPAY HANGZHOU TECH CO LTD
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
57
15
12
11
7
4
South Korea
74 international families
BIZPLAY CO LTD
COUPANG CORP
LORDSYSTEM CO LTD
THE SERVICE PLATFORM
THE SERVICE PLATFORM CO LTD
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
4
4
3
3
3
2
Canada
45 international families
CANADA LTD 10353744
TORONTO DOMINION BANK
VIGILANT AI INC
NANJING SUNING SOFTWARE TECH CO LTD
SUNING CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
8
7
4
3
3
2
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
Financial Strength
Banking System Capacity
4.9% shared · 300 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
1,677
722
638
486
297
Strategic Infrastructure
Banks, Insurers & Systemic Institutions
4.1% shared · 402 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
2,907
1,531
1,087
813
421
Financial Strength
Long-Term & Institutional Capital
3.1% shared · 175 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
1,486
868
498
378
172
Strategic Infrastructure
Markets, Exchanges & Depositories
2.9% shared · 165 families in both
China
United States
Japan
South Korea
Cayman Islands
1,322
1,185
384
363
253
Financial Strength
Capital Markets Depth & Development
2.9% shared · 165 families in both
China
United States
Japan
South Korea
Cayman Islands
1,322
1,185
384
363
253
Financial Strength
Payment & Market Infrastructure Oversight
2.4% shared · 423 families in both
United States
China
South Korea
Japan
Cayman Islands
6,452
2,381
1,618
1,604
589
Strategic Infrastructure
Payments & Settlement Systems
2.1% shared · 556 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
8,689
3,604
3,322
2,540
750
Financial Strength
Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control
1.9% shared · 62 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
1,064
181
104
84
67
Production & Innovation
Services Economy
1.7% shared · 1,456 families in both
United States
Japan
South Korea
China
Germany
24,048
16,321
11,491
8,566
3,398
Crosswalk
How Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q40/10 | Tax strategies | Tax strategies and tax computation | 1 | 1 | 5,238 |
| G06Q40/12 | Accounting | Accounting systems, including tax preparation and filing | 6 | 1 | 43,220 |
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 Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration: 7 codes on 48,458 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q40/12 | Accounting | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 25,068 |
| G06Q40/125 | Finance or payroll | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 10,955 |
| G06Q40/123 | Tax preparation or submission | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 6,017 |
| G06Q40/10 | Tax strategies | G06Q40/10 | In the scheme | 5,238 |
| G06Q40/128 | Check-book balancing, updating or printing arrangements | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 991 |
| G06Q40/124 | Auditing | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 110 |
| G06Q40/126 | Corporate accounting | G06Q40/12 | In the scheme | 79 |
Other capabilities in Fiscal Capacity & Public Finance
- Public Expenditure & Budget Management
- Sovereign Debt & Treasury Management
- Public Investment Management