- International families
- 110k3.0% of the world
- All families
- 162khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 68%16k triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of France 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 France 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
19k international families
Strategic Infrastructure
22k international families
National Security
968 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
7,649 international families
Information & Influence
933 international families
Governance & Integrity
1,208 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
341 international families
Production & Innovation
56k international families
Trade & Investment
1,320 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 France's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of France'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 22,524 | 4.5% | 6 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 12,630 | 4.0% | 6 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.0× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 9,789 | 2.7% | 7 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 7,168 | 2.7% | 8 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.1× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 6,297 | 3.1% | 8 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 4,364 | 1.9% | 7 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.6× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 4,097 | 3.2% | 8 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 3,942 | 1.9% | 7 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.4× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,739 | 1.4% | 9 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.7× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,625 | 4.9% | 6 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 3,458 | 1.4% | 9 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.7× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,021 | 6.0% | 6 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.6× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 2,695 | 2.3% | 6 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.7× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,567 | 2.5% | 7 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.6× | |
| Thermal Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,550 | 10.5% | 3 of 40 | 3.5× | 1.0× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 2,494 | 3.2% | 6 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.8× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 2,432 | 3.4% | 6 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 2,265 | 3.0% | 7 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 2,247 | 1.6% | 7 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.8× | |
| Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels | Critical Technology | 2,209 | 5.8% | 6 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.9× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 2,165 | 3.0% | 6 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.9× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 2,012 | 1.9% | 6 of 40 | 0.6× | 2.7× | |
| Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing | Critical Technology | 1,947 | 3.4% | 7 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.1× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,805 | 2.3% | 7 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.4× | |
| Additive & Precision Manufacturing | Critical Technology | 1,753 | 4.0% | 5 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.0× |
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
Human Capital
Trade & Investment
Governance & Integrity
National Security
Information & Influence
Financial Strength
44,346
36,088
14,738
2,446
2,432
2,125
1,994
817
Largest applicants
CENTRE NAT RECH SCIENT
COMMISSARIAT ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
OREAL
INST NAT SANTE RECH MED
PSA AUTOMOBILES SA
MICHELIN & CIE
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
THALES SA
RENAULT SAS
SAINT GOBAIN
6,023
5,828
3,144
2,831
2,693
2,616
2,264
2,075
1,974
1,803