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The Digital Mine: Lighting up Mining’s Future with Patent Data

UnitedLex & Foresight

Clean Technology & Innovation

From Vision to Impact

The partnership between Foresight and UnitedLex delivered world-class IP expertise to emerging Canadian startups through the development of in-depth research reports, equipping companies with the insights needed to transform bold ideas into commercialized cleantech solutions.

Driving Clean Tech Innovation Forward

As a trusted partner to Foresight, UnitedLex provides strategic guidance and patent analytics crucial to helping Canadian startups assess, establish, and protect their IP. Our collaborative work not only fuels a more sustainable and innovative future, but it also enables the partner startups to transform their ideas into commercially viable businesses and economic realities.

About Foresight

Foresight Canada helps the world do more with less, sustainably. As Canada’s largest cleantech innovation and adoption accelerator, they de-risk and simplify public and private sector adoption of the world’s best clean technologies to improve productivity, profitability, and economic competitiveness, all while addressing urgent climate challenges.

Illuminating the future of mining with patent intelligence

Discover how data‑driven patent insights are helping lead to more sustainable mining practices and smarter decision-making within the industry.

  • Uncover mining’s fastest‑moving tech trends
  • Benchmark innovators through global patent data
  • Turn insight into strategic advantage

Making a Difference

Traditionally, strategic IP guidance and advanced patent analytics were reserved for large, established organizations that could afford top-tier competitive intelligence. Partnerships with organizations like Foresight helps to level the playing field. 

Through Canadian government support, Foresight’s extensive network, and UnitedLex’s cutting-edge solutions, we supply Canadian startups with additional tools to help them thrive. As a result, Canada is producing smarter, cleaner technologies that benefit investors, industries, and society at large.

Reimagining Forest Resources

To better understand challenges and opportunities in Canada's forest bioeconomy sector, Foresight and UnitedLex analyzed the current global patent landscape around forest management, forest harvesting, and bioprocessing. The insights revealed the sector’s innovation strengths and the best commercial opportunities for the forest bioeconomy..

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Mining for a Greener Future

With great environmental impact also comes great opportunity for improvement—especially in the mining industry. Through this patent landscape analysis by UnitedLex, Foresight identified innovation gaps such as those in advanced smelting techniques and bio-based carbon reduction. Pinpointing these whitespaces offers a path for Canada to develop cleaner, more sustainable processes while gaining a competitive edge.

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Transforming Water Technology

By mapping the global water sector's patent landscape, UnitedLex and Foresight highlighted emerging opportunities for Canadian water tech innovation, focusing on the lucrative overlap between commercial interests and sustainable development.

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