- International families
- 70k1.9% of the world
- All families
- 147khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 48%12k triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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
13k international families
Strategic Infrastructure
13k international families
National Security
836 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
7,418 international families
Information & Influence
918 international families
Governance & Integrity
849 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
388 international families
Production & Innovation
36k international families
Trade & Investment
860 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 United Kingdom's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of United Kingdom'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 | 7,843 | 1.6% | 10 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.9× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 6,651 | 2.5% | 9 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.9× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 6,453 | 3.1% | 6 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.0× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 4,870 | 1.6% | 9 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 4,313 | 1.2% | 11 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.8× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,546 | 1.6% | 8 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.3× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 3,079 | 1.5% | 8 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.2× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 2,633 | 3.5% | 6 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.1× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 2,579 | 2.0% | 11 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.1× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 2,220 | 3.0% | 6 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.1× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 2,049 | 2.9% | 7 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.0× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,920 | 1.8% | 8 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.7× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,834 | 2.4% | 8 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.9× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,739 | 0.7% | 12 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.7× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,628 | 2.2% | 8 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.1× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,583 | 2.2% | 7 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 1,562 | 0.6% | 12 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.6× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,540 | 1.9% | 9 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,515 | 4.0% | 6 of 40 | 2.1× | 0.6× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,485 | 1.5% | 10 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.7× | |
| Thermal Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,448 | 6.0% | 6 of 40 | 3.2× | 0.7× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,434 | 1.6% | 8 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.7× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 1,409 | 1.7% | 11 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.2× | |
| Genomics & Biological Data | Critical Technology | 1,376 | 3.5% | 6 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.0× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,375 | 2.0% | 8 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.9× |
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
Information & Influence
Governance & Integrity
National Security
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
25,552
23,822
14,539
1,810
1,807
1,681
1,532
922
Largest applicants
ROLLS ROYCE PLC
NICOVENTURES TRADING LTD
ADVANCED RISC MACH LTD
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
JAGUAR LAND ROVER LTD
DYSON TECHNOLOGY LTD
BRITISH TELECOMM
CIRRUS LOGIC INT SEMICONDUCTOR LTD
UNIV OXFORD INNOVATION LTD
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD
2,219
1,951
1,659
1,461
1,357
1,344
888
866
797
746