The Archived Canadian Patent Competitive Intelligence (2013/8/27)

Muchiu (Henry) Chang, PhD. Cantab.

[email protected]

August 27, 2013

Canadian Patent Competitive Intelligence Database

2011 Statistics* of Canadian Exports in Canadian dollars (1)

• Canadian commercial service exports account for 8.2% of total Canadian exports, had a $3554 million surplus;

• Canadian intellectual property (IP) license exports account for 6.4% of total Canada’s commercial service exports, had a $6990 million deficit;

• Canadian intellectual property (IP) license export deficit offset the surpluses in Computer and information services and in R&D export, as a whole;

• Canadian patent and industrial design license exports account for 47.7% of total Canada’s IP exports, had $2483 million deficit.

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Source: * http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=3760033

• The US Market accounts for: 61.3% of total Canada’s commercial service exports,

and 16.3% of commercial service export surpluses;54.2% of total Canada’s IP license exports, and

85.1% of IP license export deficits; 42.3% of total Canada’s patent and industrial

design license exports, and 89.9% of patent and industrial design license export deficits;

• In 2012, Canadian patent and industrial design license exports to the US were estimated CAD$811.32 million.


2011 Statistics* of Canadian Exports in Canadian dollars (2)

Source: * http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=3760033

• Canada is the third largest US Royalties and License Fees export country;

• But Canada is not among the top five US Royalties and License Fees import country.


2011 Statistics* of the US Trade** with Canada in Royalties and License Fees

Source: ** http://bea.gov/international/xls/table_F.xls

Features of Our CI database

• Synchronized with USPTO patent database to provide “no-older-than-7-day” information about Canada’s patent competitive advantage in the US market;

• Included information of 4455 Canadian companies/organizations having US patents granted from Jan. 1, 2004 to August 27, 2013;

• Provided synergies and intelligence in strategic planning for economic development, immigration, new immigrant employment and human resource.


Canadian Patent Landscape in the US Market

• Ontario is the largest US patent hub province;• In Ontario, Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo CMA,

Ottawa-Gatineau CMA and Markham municipality are the top 3 US patent hosting geographical areas respectively (normalized by population);

• The US patent gaining of Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo CMA grows steadily.


If you need the latest intelligence regarding:• the names of over 4000 Canadian US patent owners in all business sectors and coast to coast; and• their detailed patent trends in the US market,

please feel free to contact:

Dr. Muchiu (Henry) Chang

[email protected]

+1-416-828-5676


Figure 1, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces

Figure 2, US Patent Statistics by Geographical Areas

Figure 3, Top 3 Ontario Geographical Areas in US Patent Holding

Figure 4, Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the top 22 GTA Potential Employers

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The Archived Canadian Patent Competitive Intelligence (2013/8/27)