The archived Canadian US Patent Competitive Intelligence Database (2015/4/21)

Muchiu (Henry) Chang, PhD. Cantab.

[email protected]

April 21, 2015

Directory of Canadian US Patent Holders -The latest Competitive Intelligence (CI) and

intellectual Ecosystem of Canada

Figure 1, Global US patent holding

Figure 2, US patent holding in major economy entities in the world

• The charges for the use of IP accounted for only 0.68% of Canadian export, but caused

$7.1 billions of foreign trade deficit, about 19.6% of the total foreign trade deficit ($36 billions);• Knowledge-based is not good enough;• IP is the key factor to the added value in

global value chains;• Patent CI can help to improve the added

value of export.

The Impact of Intellectual Property (IP) on

2012 Canadian Foreign Trade

2012 Statistics** of the US Trade with Canada in Royalties and License Fees

© Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2014

• Canada is the third largest US Royalties and License Fees export country (Ireland, Japan, Canada, UK Switzerland) ;

• But Canada is not among the top five largest US Royalties and License Fees import countries (Japan, Switzerland, UK, Germany, France);

• The US has US$84.3 billions surplus in foreign trade cash flow from Royalties & License fees;

• This is about 2.6 times of the total Canadian foreign trade deficit (CAD$36 billions).

* Source: US Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, http://www.bea.gov/international/xls/table_F.xls

Database of Canadian US Patent Holdersand Competitive Intelligence (CI)

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

• Until April 21, 2015, there are 5498 Canadian US patents owners (2475 of them are in Ontario) tracked by this database;

• This database tracks information about who they are, where they are, what they patented and if they are getting stronger or weaker;

• Provided synergy on economic related issues.


Canadian Patent Landscape in the US Market

• Ontario is the largest US patent hub province;

Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo CMA, Saskatoon, Ottawa-Gatineau CMA, Markham, Drummondville are the top US patent hosting geographical areas in Canada respectively (normalized by population).


If you need the latest intelligence regarding:• the names of over 5000 Canadian US patent owners in all business sectors and from coast to coast; and• their detailed patent strengths and trends of these Canadian companies in the US market,

please feel free to contact:

Dr. Muchiu (Henry) Chang

[email protected]

+1-416-828-5676


Figure 3, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces

Figure 4, US Patent Statistics by Geographical Areas

Figure 5, Top 3 Ontario Geographical Areas in US Patent Holding

Figure 6, Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the top 22 GTA Potential Employers

The archived Canadian US Patent Competitive Intelligence Database (2015/4/21)

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