Production & Innovation

Employment Services & Skills Matching

The capacity to match people to work: public employment services, active labour programmes and the matching infrastructure that shortens the distance between a vacancy and the person who can fill it. One of the capabilities of Labour & Employment.

International families: 7102015 to 2024
Leading country: United States2.3× the next
All families: 5,947home filings included
Over five years: Rising2020 to 2024 against the five before

Year by year

Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.

Volume

International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Share by country

Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.

Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google

Country leaderboard

International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.

Ten largest

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

India

Canada

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Israel

254

109


1	United States	254	35.8%	0.9×	1,257
2	Japan	109	15.4%	2.8×	578
3	China	71	10.0%	1.1×	2,510
4	South Korea	70	9.9%	3.7×	1,185
5	India	44	6.2%	0.7×	70
6	Canada	33	4.6%	3.1×	71
7	United Kingdom	21	3.0%	1.1×	37
8	Australia	16	2.3%	0.3×	35
9	Germany	12	1.7%	1.4×	38
10	Israel	7	1.0%	6.0×	17
11	France	6	0.8%	5.0×	14
12	Taiwan	5	0.7%	0.0×	8
13	Singapore	5	0.7%	0.3×	8
14	Türkiye	5	0.7%	1.5×	9
15	Ireland	5	0.7%	1.5×	19
16	Switzerland	4	0.6%	0.0×	8
17	Hong Kong	4	0.6%	–	6
18	Malaysia	4	0.6%	0.3×	5
19	Poland	3	0.4%	–	3
20	Netherlands	2	0.3%	1.0×	7
21	Austria	2	0.3%	1.0×	2
22	Spain	2	0.3%	–	3
23	Belgium	2	0.3%	0.0×	7
24	Brazil	2	0.3%	0.0×	4
25	New Zealand	2	0.3%	–	3
26	Mexico	2	0.3%	1.0×	2
27	Sweden	1	0.1%	–	4
28	Denmark	1	0.1%	0.0×	2
29	Russia	1	0.1%	0.0×	2
30	South Africa	1	0.1%	–	1
31	Luxembourg	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
32	Saudi Arabia	1	0.1%	–	1
33	Hungary	1	0.1%	0.0×	1
34	Italy	0	0.0%	–	3
35	Finland	0	0.0%	–	1

Applicants

The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Employment Services & Skills Matching. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

710 international families

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC · United States

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD · China

BOLD LTD · Bermuda

LINKEDIN CORP · United States

NEC CORP · Japan

ENTPR BLOCKCHAIN CO LTD · South Korea

United States

254 international families

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

LINKEDIN CORP

ICIMS INC

LINKEDLN CORP

MY JOB MATCHER INC D/B/A JOB COM

ADP INC

Japan

109 international families

NEC CORP

MURATA MANUFACTURING CO

FUJITSU LTD

JINSOKEN CO LTD

FORUM ENG INC

MATCHBOX TECH INC

China

71 international families

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

Baidu online network technology beijing co ltd

BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD

ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD

ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD

BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

South Korea

70 international families

ENTPR BLOCKCHAIN CO LTD

EASYTASK INC

GENESIS LAB INC

HANWHA LIFE INSURANCE CO LTD

RATEL & PARTNERS CO LTD

BLUEVISORSYSTEMS CO LTD

India

44 international families

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD

DORNADULA MANIKANTH

JOBSGAAR TECH PRIVATE LIMITED

RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD

AGASHE SAMEER KISHOR

AHIRE PRAMOD PANDIT

Similar capabilities

The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Employment Services & Skills Matching, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.

Human Capital

Foundational Learning

1.3% shared · 89 families in both

United States

China

Japan

South Korea

Taiwan

1,468

1,054

1,039

901

207

Financial Strength

Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration

1.1% shared · 23 families in both

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Canada

529

216

207

Production & Innovation

Digital Economy Adoption

1.0% shared · 710 families in both

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

21,362

15,584

10,966

7,828

2,749

Strategic Infrastructure

Education & Skills Infrastructure

0.7% shared · 92 families in both

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

3,247

2,198

1,763

1,499

503

Governance & Integrity

Access to Justice & Legal Services

0.4% shared · 12 families in both

United States

Japan

South Korea

China

Canada

584

369

224

199

Strategic Infrastructure

Justice & Corrections

0.4% shared · 12 families in both

United States

Japan

South Korea

China

Canada

667

396

245

243

Trade & Investment

Digital Trade & E-Commerce

0.3% shared · 66 families in both

United States

Japan

South Korea

China

Canada

6,376

4,793

3,598

2,845

590

Strategic Infrastructure

Data Resources

0.3% shared · 239 families in both

United States

China

Japan

South Korea

Germany

28,809

23,945

12,592

7,266

3,037

Strategic Infrastructure

Government & Public Administration

0.3% shared · 17 families in both

United States

China

Japan

South Korea

Germany

1,294

1,225

1,062

878

391

Crosswalk

How Employment Services & Skills Matching is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 1 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.

Entry	Title in the scheme	Why it is chosen	CPC codes	IPC codes	Documents
G06Q10/1053	Employment or hiring	Employment and hiring systems, such as job matching	1	1	11,387

CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.

The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Employment Services & Skills Matching: 1 codes on 11,387 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G06Q10/1053	Employment or hiring	G06Q10/1053	In the scheme	11,387

Match: Through its tools

The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. Counts recruitment and job-matching software, mostly private; says nothing about public employment services or labour programmes. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Labour & Employment

Employment & Labour Force Participation
Labour Market Institutions & Wage Setting
Labour Adjustment, Transition & Formalisation