Archive · 24 Aug 2026
India Ranks Fifth as Generative AI Patenting Accelerates Globally
India is now one of the five biggest countries for generative AI patents.
A patent is a formal record showing that someone has developed a new invention.
India published 929 generative AI patents in 2024 and 2025.
That was almost as many as it published during the previous ten years combined.
China was far ahead of every other country in the report.
The United States and Japan also increased their patent activity quickly.
Japan’s growth was helped significantly by SoftBank.
Patents for large language models, which can work with text, code, images, and other media, became more common than patents for systems that make media look more realistic or detect fakes.
India ranked fifth globally in generative AI patent filings, with a 64% CAGR between 2024 and 2025.
India published 929 generative AI patents in 2024 and 2025, nearly 70% of its 1,350 patents published from 2014 to 2023.
China led with 43,383 AI patent filings in 2024 and 2025, accounting for more than 70% of global generative AI patents.
The United States and Japan followed China, while South Korea and India completed the top five.
Large language model patents overtook generative adversarial network patents, with 20,900 versus 18,800 patent families published from 2014 to 2025.
- Who
- India, China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and companies such as SoftBank are identified in the patent rankings; the figures come from a World Intellectual Property Organization report.
- What
- Countries are rapidly increasing generative AI patent filings, with India ranking fifth globally and large language model patents becoming the largest category.
- When
- The report covers patent activity in 2024 and 2025, with comparisons to 2014–2023 and category data from 2014–2025.
- Where
- The rankings cover global generative AI patent activity.
- Why
- The patent surge reflects movement from AI experimentation toward large-scale commercial deployment and intensified global competition.
- India’s rank
- Fifth globally in generative AI patent filings
- India’s recent patents
- 929 generative AI patents published in 2024 and 2025
- India’s previous decade
- 1,350 generative AI patents published from 2014 to 2023
- India’s growth rate
- 64% compound annual growth rate between 2024 and 2025
- China’s share
- More than 70% of global generative AI patents
- Leading model category
- Large language model patents surpassed generative adversarial network patents
- Patent-family comparison
- 20,900 large language model patent families versus 18,800 generative adversarial network families from 2014 to 2025