- International families
- 5,3860.1% of the world
- All families
- 8,177home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 66%1,144 triadic
- Growth
- 0.4×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Cayman Islands origin by the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Innovation and National Capability
The nine domains of the National Capability Framework, each with the capabilities in which Cayman Islands has the most international patent families, in the period chosen. 2025 is a part year and 2026 has barely begun. Select a capability for its page.
Hard Power
Critical Technology
616 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
612 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
129 international families
Information & Influence
208 international families
Governance & Integrity
39 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
8 international families
Production & Innovation
1,443 international families
Trade & Investment
28 international families
Where its patents run deepest
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, in each capability of the National Capability Framework. Share of world is Cayman Islands's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Cayman Islands's families against its share of the world's: 2.0× means twice the world's weight. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
| 2000 to 2025 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,186 | 1.3% | 10 of 40 | 8.8× | 0.2× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,037 | 1.5% | 12 of 40 | 10× | 0.1× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,002 | 0.4% | 18 of 40 | 3.0× | 0.5× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 875 | 0.4% | 19 of 40 | 2.9× | 0.5× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 799 | 1.0% | 16 of 40 | 7.0× | 0.1× | |
| Payments & Settlement Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 675 | 2.7% | 7 of 40 | 18× | 0.0× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 656 | 0.9% | 15 of 40 | 6.5× | 0.1× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 630 | 0.9% | 14 of 40 | 5.9× | 0.1× | |
| Payment & Market Infrastructure Oversight | Financial Strength | 589 | 3.5% | 5 of 40 | 24× | 0.0× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 547 | 0.7% | 16 of 40 | 4.5× | 0.0× | |
| Currency Issuance & Digital Money | Financial Strength | 508 | 3.0% | 8 of 40 | 20× | 0.0× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 493 | 0.5% | 19 of 40 | 3.1× | 0.9× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 369 | 0.4% | 18 of 40 | 2.5× | 0.1× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 349 | 0.1% | 21 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.1× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 286 | 0.2% | 17 of 40 | 1.4× | 0.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 284 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.1× | |
| Digital Trade & E-Commerce | Trade & Investment | 278 | 1.2% | 11 of 40 | 8.5× | 0.1× | |
| International Media & Broadcasting | Information & Influence | 270 | 0.6% | 16 of 40 | 4.2× | 1.2× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 259 | 0.1% | 21 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.1× | |
| Markets, Exchanges & Depositories | Strategic Infrastructure | 253 | 5.7% | 5 of 40 | 39× | 0.0× | |
| Capital Markets Depth & Development | Financial Strength | 253 | 5.7% | 5 of 40 | 39× | 0.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 224 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.9× | |
| Banks, Insurers & Systemic Institutions | Strategic Infrastructure | 193 | 2.2% | 6 of 40 | 15× | 0.0× | |
| Policing & Law Enforcement | Governance & Integrity | 193 | 0.3% | 19 of 40 | 2.3× | 0.2× | |
| Financial Inclusion & Household Access | Financial Strength | 172 | 2.0% | 7 of 40 | 14× | 0.0× |
By domain and applicant
International patent families, 2015 to 2024. A family counts once in each domain it reaches.
Domains of the framework
Strategic Infrastructure
Critical Technology
Financial Strength
Information & Influence
Trade & Investment
Human Capital
Governance & Integrity
National Security
3,161
2,910
895
356
346
330
273
104
Largest applicants
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD
ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD
FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LTD
FOXCONN KUNSHAN COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO LTD
LEMON INC
LIANMENG CO LTD
GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC
GLOBALFOUNDRIES US INC
SMOORE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD
2,520
1,394
1,324
912
665
492
395
274
253
105