Strategies to Protect Your Intellectual Property

Strategies to protect your Intellectual Property

As we shift into a generation of advanced digital transformation and to encourage business growth, securing your company’s IP is more important than ever.

According to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), SMEs account for 90 percent of the labour force and 85 percent of net employment growth in Canada. However, only two percent of SMEs hold at least one patent – a formal form of IP.

Join our panel of experts as they discuss:

  • The different types of IP and how they apply to your business
  • Steps SMEs must take to protect their IP
  • How IP-backed financing works and how scale-up companies can take advantage of this growth capital offering

Panellists:

R. Nelson Godfrey Dumitru Olariu Lally Rementilla Austin Nairn

R. Nelson Godfrey, Partner and Head of Vancouver IP Litigation Department, Gowling WLG
Dumitru Olariu, Intellectual Property Advisor, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Lally Rementilla, Managing Partner, IP Backed Financing, BDC
Moderator: Austin Nairn, Vice-President, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade | Executive Director, World Trade Centre Vancouver

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The Scale-up Centre for SMEs (SCS) is an initiative of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. The SCS works to understand the trends, forces, and issues impacting SME growth, innovation, and competitiveness and develops programming and policy to address these issues. Based on the goals of helping companies to discover gaps, engage with experts, and create solutions to address obstacles to growth, the SCS connects, educates, and inspires SMEs in British Columbia.