In 2009, when I was working for the Region of Peel government, Canada, I successfully used patent mapping to identify 20 US patent intensive companies as the potential employers for highly educated immigrants. Following this initiative, I created a Canadian patent competitive intelligence (CI) database to track the latest patent competence of over 4000 Canadian entities, in all sector and from coast to coast in Canada, on a weekly basis. My work with Region of Peel from 2010 to 2012 showed that this database can provide the "no-older-than-7-day" intelligence for long-term strategic research/planning and short-term tactics. This is also the first attempt in Canada to use patent landscape as a regional economic strength indicator and a baseline for policy harmonization and policy performance evaluation.

1. Muchiu (Henry) Chang, PhD. Cantab.
henry.chang212@gmail.com
August 27, 2013
Canadian Patent Competitive Intelligence
Database

2. 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.
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013
Source: * http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=3760033

3. • 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.
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013
2011 Statistics* of Canadian Exports in
Canadian dollars (2)
Source: * http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=3760033

4. • 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.
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013
2011 Statistics* of the US Trade** with
Canada in Royalties and License Fees
Source: ** http://bea.gov/international/xls/table_F.xls

5. 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.
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013

6. 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.
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013

7. 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
henry.chang212@gmail.com
+1-416-828-5676
© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2013

8. Figure 1, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces

9. Figure 2, US Patent Statistics by Geographical Areas

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

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