Processing Artificial Intelligence: Highlighting the Canadian Patent Landscape

INTERNATIONAL

PATENTED INVENTIONS ANNUAL GROWTH RATE

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CHINA:2012 – 1,9322017 – 11,955

UNITED STATES:2014 – 1,832 2017 – 3,477

CHINA

JAPAN

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED STATES

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

CANADA

AUSTRALIA

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PATENT FILING TRENDS (1998-2017)

IP CONCENTRATION INDEX

Total patented inventions: 85,144 Chinese and American assignees cumulatively accounted for 65% of total patented inventions filed globally.

Index approaching 0.5 in 2017 thereby indicating dominance of two countries in AI patent activity.

• 31% annual growth rate observed between 2011 and 2017.• 68% of patented inventions were filed between 2011 and 2017.

• Metric developed to gauge the level of concentration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) patented inventions by country of origin.• Index ranges between 1/n and 1, where n is the number of participants.

AI A

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UNITED STATES

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Natural LanguageProcessing

Computer Vision

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Robotics

Predictive Analytics

Speech Processing

Control Methods

Planning and Scheduling

Distributed Artificial Intelligence

CALGARY

Physical SciencesAnd Engineering

Telecommunications

NetworksComputing in Government

VANCOUVER

OTTAWA-GATINEAU

TORONTOKITCHENER-CAMBRIDGE-WATERLOO

MONTREAL19

#CMA with Canadian Institutions < 10

CMA with Canadian Institutions >= 10

3042

7820

NUMBER OF PATENTED INVENTIONS / GDP

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30

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CANADIAN RESEARCHERS

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Germany

Republic of Korea

PATENT FILING TRENDS (1998-2017)

RELATIVE SPECIALIZATION INDEX (RSI)

RSI BY AI APPLICATIONS GEOGRAPHICAL CLUSTERS OF ACTIVITY

Patented inventions filed by Canadian researchers grew at a similarrate when compared to researchers globally over the past five years.

Canadian researchers fare well in various applications of AI against American researchers who are considered to be prolific filers in AI.

Interestingly, most of the prominent Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) are specialized in different application fields of AI.

Canadian institutions account for less than 1% of the total patented inventions filed by institutions globally.

Canadian researchers and institutions are both specialized in the field of AI, although their specialization has decreased over the past decade.

CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS

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2,497 Canadian researchers filed 1,419 patented inventions

284 Canadian institutions filed 618 patented inventions