- International families
- 1,9430.1% of the world
- All families
- 5,346home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 36%114 triadic
- Growth
- 0.8×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Malaysia 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 Malaysia 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
269 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
380 international families
National Security
8 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
126 international families
Information & Influence
7 international families
Governance & Integrity
30 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
16 international families
Production & Innovation
869 international families
Trade & Investment
47 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 Malaysia's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Malaysia'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 284 | 0.1% | 36 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 216 | 0.1% | 35 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.6× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 204 | 0.2% | 32 of 40 | 3.0× | 0.6× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 168 | 0.0% | 38 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.6× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 151 | 0.1% | 38 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.1× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 123 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 123 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 96 | 0.0% | 40 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.5× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 95 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 2.5× | 0.7× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 80 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.9× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 61 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.1× | 2.0× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 60 | 0.1% | 37 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 59 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.4× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 57 | 0.0% | 23 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.4× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 55 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.5× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 51 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.5× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 50 | 0.1% | 24 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 49 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.6× | |
| Wastewater & Sanitation | Strategic Infrastructure | 46 | 0.2% | 35 of 40 | 3.1× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration | Critical Technology | 44 | 0.1% | 22 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.5× | |
| Water Supply & Treatment | Strategic Infrastructure | 43 | 0.2% | 32 of 40 | 3.3× | 1.1× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 43 | 0.0% | 36 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.3× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 42 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 2.1× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 40 | 0.0% | 35 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.3× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 38 | 0.1% | 39 of 40 | 1.0× | 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
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
Information & Influence
National Security
864
573
276
81
71
41
29
15
Largest applicants
MIMOS BERHAD
PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD PETRONAS
TOP GLOVE INT SDN BHD
SIME DARBY PLANTATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SDN BHD
DAIKIN RES & DEVELOPMENT MALAYSIA SDN BHD
MI EQUIPMENT M SDN BHD
UNIV MALAYA
UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA
INTEL CORP
SKYECHIP SDN BHD
184
124
48
45
40
38
38
34
30
29