Date & Time: Feb 1, 2024 @ 3:00 PM in Halifax
Description: On the path to commercialization, many stakeholders ask about your company’s intellectual property (IP) strategy – investors, strategic partners, and even funding organizations. But the IP strategy for natural products and processes can be particularly tricky to navigate.
In this session, you’ll hear practical strategies and insights from IP expert, Noel Courage of Bereskin Parr, and learn how to access free IP resources through Canada’s Elevate IP program.
This session will help you:
• Gain awareness of the challenges and potential barriers to patenting a biobased or nature-derived innovation
• Fill in knowledge gaps around IP strategies for trade secrets, patents, and trademarks
• Identify product and process developments that may justify patenting versus keeping a trade secret
• Help you articulate your IP strategy to stakeholders
• Learn how to access IP resources through the new national program, Elevate IP
As a special bonus, Noel will answer select questions submitted in advance by NPC members. Register now to submit your question!
In addition, Shelley Hessian of Springboard Atlantic, a regional provider for Elevate IP, will explain how the national program provides IP support to Canadian companies, and how you can access it through their Atlantic IP Advantage initiative or other partners across the country.
Noel Courage:
Partner in Bereskin & Parr LLP · Bereskin & Parr LLP
Noel Courage is a partner in Bereskin & Parr LLP intellectual property law. He is a US and Canadian patent agent and a Canadian lawyer. Noel focuses his practice on IP agreements and protecting new inventions with patents. He has extensive experience in developing global IP strategy for natural products and processes, having spent more than 20 years working with start-up companies and universities.
Shelley Hessian:
NS Regional IP Counsellor · Springboard Atlantic
Springboard Atlantic is one of five regional delivery partners for ElevateIP, a program of the Government of Canada designed to increase IP capacity within the Canadian innovation ecosystem, provide accessible and inclusive supports, and assist startups in the development and implementation of IP strategies. Springboard Atlantic delivers the program through Atlantic IP, and provides IP-related funding to startups in the four Atlantic provinces.
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