- International families
- 23k0.6% of the world
- All families
- 36khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 66%1,487 triadic
- Growth
- 1.3×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of India 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 India 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
5,124 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
6,487 international families
National Security
202 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
3,329 international families
Information & Influence
350 international families
Governance & Integrity
358 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
264 international families
Production & Innovation
14k international families
Trade & Investment
519 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 India's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of India'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 3,766 | 1.8% | 9 of 40 | 2.9× | 1.1× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 2,770 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.2× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 2,269 | 0.5% | 17 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.8× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,030 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.8× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,977 | 0.8% | 17 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 1,940 | 0.9% | 14 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.7× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 1,630 | 1.3% | 15 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.5× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,584 | 0.6% | 13 of 40 | 1.0× | 3.0× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 1,516 | 0.6% | 13 of 40 | 0.9× | 3.0× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 1,436 | 2.0% | 7 of 40 | 3.1× | 1.2× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,363 | 1.8% | 11 of 40 | 2.9× | 1.0× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,349 | 1.3% | 12 of 40 | 2.1× | 3.3× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,155 | 1.1% | 11 of 40 | 1.7× | 2.7× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 1,095 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 2.1× | 1.4× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,085 | 1.2% | 11 of 40 | 1.9× | 0.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,033 | 0.3% | 22 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.0× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 738 | 1.1% | 13 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.2× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 706 | 0.9% | 14 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.5× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 611 | 0.8% | 17 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.5× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 609 | 0.9% | 16 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.8× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 584 | 0.8% | 18 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.1× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 509 | 0.4% | 13 of 40 | 0.7× | 4.9× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 433 | 0.6% | 20 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.5× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 429 | 1.4% | 14 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.2× | |
| International Media & Broadcasting | Information & Influence | 406 | 0.9% | 12 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.1× |
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
Trade & Investment
Information & Influence
Governance & Integrity
Financial Strength
National Security
10,583
7,705
6,100
823
638
601
462
315
Largest applicants
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
JIO PLATFORMS LTD
TVS MOTOR CO LTD
COUNCIL SCIENT IND RES
WIPRO LTD
INDIAN INST TECH MADRAS
SHARMA PRATIK
STERLITE TECH LTD
UPL LTD
INDIAN OIL CORP LTD
1,608
1,486
794
562
396
294
233
230
207
185