Information & Influence

Heritage & Cultural Institutions

The capacity to hold and share the inheritance: inscription and stewardship machinery, museums and collections of world standing and the heritage diplomacy, including restitution, through which the past does present work. One of the capabilities of Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy.

International families: 182015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.7× the next
All families: 206home 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

Italy

Poland

China

Germany

Türkiye

Russia

Hungary

South Korea


1	United States	5	27.8%	0.7×	12
2	Japan	3	16.7%	0.0×	11
3	Italy	2	11.1%	–	6
4	Poland	2	11.1%	–	3
5	China	1	5.6%	–	145
6	Germany	1	5.6%	–	2
7	Türkiye	1	5.6%	–	1
8	Russia	1	5.6%	–	3
9	Hungary	1	5.6%	–	1
10	South Korea	0	0.0%	–	9
11	France	0	0.0%	–	3
12	Taiwan	0	0.0%	–	3
13	Spain	0	0.0%	–	2
14	Belgium	0	0.0%	–	1
15	Brazil	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 Heritage & Cultural Institutions. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

18 international families

IWAI KIE · Japan

IWAI KIKUKO · Japan

IWAI TAKAE · Japan

UNIV BOLOGNA ALMA MATER STUDIORUM · Italy

ART BOX GALLERY S A · Poland

ART BOX GALLERY SPOLKA AKCYJNA · Poland

United States

5 international families

BOARD BOYS LLC

FISHER DENNIS

FOREMOST MFG CO INC

HANDS OFF HANDLES INC

MECHOSHADE SYS LLC

WINES JAMES L

Japan

3 international families

IWAI KIE

IWAI KIKUKO

IWAI TAKAE

MITANI SANGYO KK

Italy

2 international families

UNIV BOLOGNA ALMA MATER STUDIORUM

Poland

2 international families

ART BOX GALLERY S A

ART BOX GALLERY SPOLKA AKCYJNA

MUZEUM NARODOWE W WARSZAWIE

UNIV WARSZAWSKI

China

1 international families

ZHONGHANG MONITORING TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO LTD

ZHONGHANG MONITORING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO LTD

Similar capabilities

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

0.0% shared · 1 families in both

Japan

United States

Germany

China

South Korea

138,612

87,628

76,621

49,292

40,578

Crosswalk

How Heritage & Cultural Institutions is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 2 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
E04H3/06	Museums; Library buildings	Museum and library buildings	1	1	399
B44D7/00	Preserving paintings, e.g. by varnishing	Preserving paintings	1	1	1,003

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 Heritage & Cultural Institutions: 2 codes on 719 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
B44D7/00	Preserving paintings, e.g. by varnishing	B44D7/00	In the scheme	556
E04H3/06	Museums; Library buildings	E04H3/06	In the scheme	163

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. A very thin match of a few hundred documents; collections, inscription and restitution have no technology. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Other capabilities in Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy

Cultural & Language Institutes
Creative Industries & Cultural Export Reach
Education Diplomacy & Alumni Networks
Sports & Major Events