Chief Executive Officer
It is a great honour to present the IP Canada Report 2023, the eighth instalment of an annual series started in 2016 by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). The series provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) activity in Canada and abroad by Canadians, and presents some of our data and research endeavours. This report is based on data from CIPO, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to present the latest IP trends in Canada.
This year, we launched CIPO's 2023–2028 Five-Year Business Strategy, which advances the Government of Canada's implementation of the IP Strategy and supports navigating change and preparing for a future that requires our office be agile, efficient, and effective. As an integral part of the national IP Strategy, the objectives set forth in our Business Strategy are focused on providing Canadian innovators and businesses with the services and support they need to thrive in a rapidly evolving world, ensuring that the Canada's IP system is modern and connected.
CIPO plays a fundamental role in providing evidence to support the federal government in delivering its mandate, through collaborative work with the Canadian and international IP research and policy community. The data and research priorities identified in our Business Strategy are reflected in our IP Data & Research Agenda, our medium-term plan for IP data and research endeavours. Specifically, the IP Data & Research Agenda advances our Business Strategy's priority of working with domestic and international partners to understand equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the society we serve. The IP Canada Report 2023 addresses knowledge gaps in this area by including an analysis prepared by Statistics Canada (StatCan) on patenting among Canadian enterprises by the gender of the business owner. This is one of many initiatives aiming to understand barriers to inclusion, and ultimately support EDI groups such as women, Indigenous, and Black entrepreneurs in their path to success.
Our IP Data & Research Agenda has also placed an emphasis on addressing data gaps and identifying cutting-edge data-science techniques to overcome such challenges. This report includes a summary of our advances in extracting valuable information from trademark applications, which will ultimately help us understand how Canadian businesses adapt, succeed, and grow during challenging economic periods, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
As always, these reports are possible thanks to the analysts working at CIPO, and the collaboration of our external stakeholders, both domestic and international. I am honoured to bring to you this year's report.
Konstantinos Georgaras
Chief Executive Officer
Acknowledgements
For more information on the research included in this report, email cipo-ipresearch-opic-recherchepi@ised-isde.gc.ca.
Authors
- Sean Martineau, Acting Director of Business Improvement Services and Acting Data Steward, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Diego Santilli, Senior Economist, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Gray Barski, Economist, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Collaborators
- Marc de Wit, Examiner, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Alexander Lehmann, Junior Data Scientist, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Chahreddine Abbes, Policy Analyst, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Amélie Lafrance-Cooke, Principal Researcher, Statistics Canada
- Danny Leung, Director of the Economic Analysis Division, Statistics Canada
Aussi offert en français sous le titre Rapport sur la PI au Canada 2023.