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Transcript of The Archived Canadian Patent Competitive Intelligence (January 18, 2011)
Muchiu (Henry) Chang, PhD. Cantab.
January 18, 2011
Canadian Competitive Intelligence Database
Characteristics of Competition
• Innovation is the most important corporate competency [1]
• Intangible intellectual property right (IPR) is the core sustainable competitive advantage [2]
• Competition of high risk, high gain
• Encouraging innovation, identifying new idea, taking more calculated risks and continuous innovation are the keys for prosperity
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Competition Risks
• IPR Infringement
• Killer applications – kill the competitors or ourselves?
• Are we reinventing the wheel?
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CI - Information about Risks and Niches
• Who are the players, competitors and partners?
• What are their strength and weakness?
• Are they becoming stronger or weaker in a specific market sector?
• What are their intentions or their prospects?
• What are our market niches?
• What is our short/long term development goal?
• What are the strategy, the resources and the steps needed to achieve this goal?
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Patent Mapping, IPR and CI
• Patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret are the four kinds of IPR
• Patent is an index for the achievements in innovation investment
• Patent is a market shield to prevent competitors from entering a specific market
• Patent mapping is a patent database mining method
• Obtain CI from patent mapping analysis for strategic development planning [3]
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US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Its Patent Database
• U.S. is a major patent market in the world
• USPTO patent database is the largest patent database in the world
• It is updated weekly
• US is the largest Canadian export partner in 2009, accounting for about 73% of Canadian exports [4]
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Our CI database
• Synchronized with USPTO patent database to provide up-to-date information about Canada’s competitive advantage
• Included information of 2975 Canadian companies/organizations having US patents granted from Jan. 1, 2004 to Jan. 18, 2011
• Provided synergies and intelligence in strategic planning for economic development, immigration, new immigrant employment and human resource
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Overall Picture© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010
• Ontario is the largest patent hosting province (56% of the new patents issued to Canadian entities in 2010)
• Montreal is the largest patent hosting city in Canada• Waterloo, dominated by Research in Motion (RIM), is
the largest innovation hub of Ontario, second to Montreal in Canada
• Halifax, Fredericton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary & Vancouver are the largest innovation hubs to Nova Scotia (NS), New Brunswick (NB), Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia (BC) respectively in 2010
• RIM keeps continuous growth in US patents holding for the last 10 years
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Aspects of GTA potential 22 employers
• GTA includes City of Toronto, Region of Durham, Halton, Peel and York, unless specified otherwise
• The potential 22 employers are ranked by the number of US patents they hold
• IT, auto and material processing are the top three sectors in patent holding. as in Figure 4
• Toronto is strong in auto and medicine/bio• IT strength is mainly in Mississauga• Material processing is mainly in Caledon and Oakville
Figure 1, Patent Statistics by Hosting Cities
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Figure 2, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces
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Figure 3, 2006-2011.1.18 Cumulative Patent Distribution by Sectors for the top 22 GTA Potential Employers
Source: our study
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Figure 4, Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the top 22 GTA Potential Employers
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Conclusion© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010
• Patent mapping analysis can disclose the real-time economic strength of an entity, such as a company, a city or a country
• At the present stage, we have identified the major Canadian players and their strength in the global market
• Our information is synchronized with USPTO patent database to provide the latest nationwide competitive intelligence weekly
• Our work can provide reference baseline for further sophisticated market surveys
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• Solely ranking a company by the number of granted patents may not be enough
• The name list may not be thorough• Further investigation of the quality of the
patents will be needed to disclose the real niches and opportunities
• In addition to patent, there are IPR of copyright, trademark and trade secret
• More sophisticated research efforts will be needed to nurture new IPR
Remarks
References[1] “Integrated Change Management Approach in the Knowledge Economic Epoch”, Muchiu (Henry) Chang, “American Society of Engineering Management Summer 2010 issue of the Practice Periodical”, July 2010https://www.netforumondemand.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=asem&WebCode=PRAPER[2] “Sun Tzu and sustainable competitive advantage”, Muchiu Chang,
Engineering Management Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE
International, Oct. 2004
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1407095[3] “Quantum computation patent mapping - a strategic view for the information
technique of tomorrow”, Muchiu Chang, Proceedings of ICSSSM '05, 2005
International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management,
June 2005
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1500183
[4] "Imports, exports and trade balance of goods on a balance-of-payments basis,
by country or country grouping“, Statistics Canada
http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/gblec02a.htm
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