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From Start-up to Scale-up: A Report on the Innovation Clinic in Canada

Intellectual property (IP) legal clinics play a crucial role in helping Canadian inventors and entrepreneurs bring their inventions to market while strengthening the foundations of the country's innovation ecosystem. IP legal clinics provide pro bono IP information and assistance to under-resourced inventors who are not served by the profession. At the same time, when based […]

CIPO at the Empowering Women Entrepreneurs symposium

It was an enormous pleasure for me to participate in IP Osgoode’s “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Effective Strategies for IP Commercialization and Success” symposium on February 11. I’d like to thank all the volunteers, organizers, participants, fellow panelists and guests who made this experience so memorable for me and many others. The Canadian Intellectual Property Office […]

The Future Is Female: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Symposium at Osgoode Hall Law School

Canadian women are in a strong position to excel in the business world, but something is still holding them back. In 2013, 47% of small to medium-sized enterprises in Canada were entirely or partly owned by women, and those businesses that are majority owned by women experience more growth and were less affected by the […]

How the IP Strategy Could Transform Canadian Innovation

This article was originally published by The Centre for International Governance Innovation. It was a “hallelujah moment,” so to speak, when the Government of Canada announced its national Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy, highlighting IP as a priority for the country. After decades of neglect, IP is finally getting the attention it rightly deserves from Ottawa. […]

Build-Up, Scale Up: Fostering Innovation in Canada

Recently, IP Osgoode founder and director Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino sat down with TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss “Fostering Innovation in Canada”. For the discussion, which aired October 25, Prof. D’Agostino was joined by Prof. Dan Breznitz (Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University […]

IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, Norton Rose to participate in Accessibility Innovation Showcase

This article is cross-posted with permission from the author. To read the original post from Canadian Lawyer, click here. Law students from the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, in collaboration with lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP’s IP group, will offer pro bono one-to-one intellectual property advice at an upcoming Ask the Expert program. The program takes place […]

#IPOsgoode #InnovationClinic to support inventors and entrepreneurs at 2017 Accessibility Innovation Showcase #OntarioAIS

IP Osgoode, the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, and Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP are pleased to announce their participation in the 2017 Accessibility Innovation Showcase’s Ask the Expert Program September 25 to 26 at The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West (at Bay Street), Toronto, ON. Members of the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic […]