IP Intelligence

India's Deep-Tech Patent Landscape

Who is filing across India's deep-tech — domestic companies, research institutes and the foreign applicants entering the market — plus the cross-sector filing trends beneath them.

Why this page exists — and how to read it

Patents are the most honest record of who is investing in a technology — filings cost money and intent. This page is the national dashboard of that record: who files (companies, institutes, foreign entrants), what gets granted, and how each sector is trending.

Investors: Foreign-filer share marks the sectors outsiders already believe in; grants vs filings separates real IP from paper.
Founders & operators: Before committing a roadmap, check who files around your space — incumbents, institutes or foreign entrants moving in.
Corporate & R&D: Use the filer drill-downs to rank companies by portfolio and grant rate, then open any filer's full profile.
Policy & TTO: The domestic-vs-foreign and company-vs-institute splits show where Indian IP is actually produced — and by whom.

4,50,060

Patents analysed

1,01,967

Granted

26,887

Foreign filers

6,96,995

Domestic inventors

33,667

Deep-tech startups

2,320

Deep-tech startups with patents

4,847

Research institutes filing

Data scope: this set concentrates on patent applications filed from 2022 onward, with grants and publications from 2024 onward. The newest filings are still in examination, so grant counts on recent years read low by design — a coverage-window timing effect, not weak inventive output.

Who's filing

Foreign entry is one lens; the full picture leads with the domestic and institutional base.

Domestic & foreign companiesNon-educational filers ranked by portfolio, grant rate and lapsed share — domestic-first, with a foreign toggle.Open →Research institutesEducational institutes ranked by portfolio and grant rate — the academic filing base, kept separate from companies.Open →Browse by technology & valueFilter ~360k filings by year, status, technology and value-added category to find the companies behind them.Open →

Filing trend, all sectors

Chart starts at 2022 — earlier years reflect granted-only survivorship, not full filing volume.

This trend maps patents onto deep-tech sectors to trace where the field is heading — read it as a directional proxy, not a representative count of all Indian filings. Sector mapping is approximate and recent years skew toward foreign applicants, so weigh the shape of the curve over the absolute numbers.

Foreign entry by sector

One lens: higher share = stronger international filing interest. Open a sector for its domestic/institute/foreign split.

Go deeper

The strategy behind the numbers — how founders turn filings into a defensible IP position.

Founder's guide

Moonshots and Marathons

Turn patent intelligence into an IP moat — the field guide to India's 7–10 year deep-tech journey.

·Master the long game of scaling
·Secure patient capital
·Survive the R&D valleys of death (TRL 4–6)

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