- International families
- 2,8340.1% of the world
- All families
- 3,024home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 94%505 triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Liechtenstein 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 Liechtenstein 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
262 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
482 international families
National Security
6 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
192 international families
Information & Influence
2 international families
Governance & Integrity
22 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
7 international families
Production & Innovation
1,440 international families
Trade & Investment
12 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 Liechtenstein's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Liechtenstein'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 | 1,142 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 3.0× | 1.0× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 589 | 0.2% | 24 of 40 | 2.1× | 0.9× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 309 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.3× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 297 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.2× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 123 | 0.1% | 39 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.0× | |
| Additive & Precision Manufacturing | Critical Technology | 114 | 0.3% | 24 of 40 | 3.4× | 1.5× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 103 | 0.1% | 25 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.8× | |
| Materials & Inputs | Strategic Infrastructure | 100 | 0.3% | 27 of 40 | 3.4× | 1.4× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 87 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 1.6× | 2.6× | |
| Transmission & Distribution | Strategic Infrastructure | 74 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 3.2× | 0.5× | |
| Civil Protection & Emergency Management | Governance & Integrity | 59 | 0.4% | 26 of 40 | 5.2× | 0.4× | |
| Emergency Services & Civil Protection | Strategic Infrastructure | 54 | 0.3% | 26 of 40 | 4.0× | 0.3× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 52 | 0.1% | 26 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.7× | |
| Advanced Robotics | Critical Technology | 49 | 0.1% | 28 of 40 | 1.5× | 3.1× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 30 | 0.0% | 40 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.3× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 29 | 0.0% | 38 of 40 | 0.5× | 2.2× | |
| Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing | Critical Technology | 27 | 0.0% | 34 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 26 | 0.0% | 40 of 40 | 0.2× | 5.5× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 25 | 0.0% | 39 of 40 | 0.1× | 2.1× | |
| Mining & Quarrying | Strategic Infrastructure | 24 | 0.5% | 22 of 40 | 7.0× | 0.8× | |
| Solid Waste & Recycling | Strategic Infrastructure | 24 | 0.1% | 39 of 40 | 1.3× | 2.0× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 24 | 0.0% | 39 of 40 | 0.1× | 2.4× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 23 | 0.0% | 40 of 40 | 0.1× | 4.8× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 23 | 0.0% | 39 of 40 | 0.2× | 1.3× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 22 | 0.0% | 40 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.6× |
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
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
National Security
Financial Strength
Information & Influence
955
416
364
66
19
12
12
7
Largest applicants
HILTI AG
THYSSENKRUPP AG
THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG
IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
NEUTRIK AG
THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCT AG
LIVING SHARE COMPANY
KHilti Aktsiengezelshaft
Inficon ag
INTERSURGICAL AG
1,719
457
426
303
43
39
33
31
24
23