Navigating IP: Commercialization and Licensing for Startups
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024
Learn more about Intellectual Property assets and their critical role in shaping business success.
This session will cover:
This session will cover:
- IP Commercialization Best Practices: What every startup needs to know about the IP commercialization process.
- IP As A Value Generator: How to leverage your IP assets to drive business growth.
- IP Licensing 101: How to structure IP licensing transactions, including key pitfalls to avoid.
Location
Online Event
Zoom (link to be sent upon registration)
Zoom (link to be sent upon registration)
Date & Time
May 15, 2024,
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Speaker Spotlight
David Schnurr
Partner, Lawyer, Registered Patent & Trademark Agent
Miller Thomson LLP
Miller Thomson LLP
David Schnurr is a partner at the national law firm of Miller Thomson LLP and one of Canada’s leading intellectual property (IP) and technology lawyers. David is a regional leader of Miller Thomson’s National MTechTM Startup Team. In this role, David leads teams of lawyers in providing high-quality legal advice and mentoring to startups and other early-stage businesses.
As a Registered Patent & Trademark Agent, David’s IP practice includes the provision of legal services in respect of patents, trademarks, copyright, and industrial designs, including the preparation, filing, prosecution, registration and maintenance of such applications before CIPO, the USPTO and internationally, the preparation of patentability and trademark registrability opinions, intellectual property due diligence, IP landscape analysis, IP audits, IP valuations, domain name disputes and the enforcement of IP rights generally. David also provides advice on legal matters relating to Canada’s anti-spam laws and AI regulation.
David has prosecuted hundreds of patent and trademark applications around the world and manages significant IP portfolios for several of the firm’s global clients. David is also a leading technology outsourcing and procurement lawyer who provides services in respect of commercial technology agreements, cloud computing services agreements, data and privacy laws, and associated fields.
David is a long-standing Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University, where he teaches the ‘Advanced Intellectual Property’ course and is a five-time recipient of the Faculty’s Teaching Award of Excellence. David is also the author of the Cloud Computing chapter in LexisNexis’ ‘Social Media and Internet Law’ legal textbook.
As a Registered Patent & Trademark Agent, David’s IP practice includes the provision of legal services in respect of patents, trademarks, copyright, and industrial designs, including the preparation, filing, prosecution, registration and maintenance of such applications before CIPO, the USPTO and internationally, the preparation of patentability and trademark registrability opinions, intellectual property due diligence, IP landscape analysis, IP audits, IP valuations, domain name disputes and the enforcement of IP rights generally. David also provides advice on legal matters relating to Canada’s anti-spam laws and AI regulation.
David has prosecuted hundreds of patent and trademark applications around the world and manages significant IP portfolios for several of the firm’s global clients. David is also a leading technology outsourcing and procurement lawyer who provides services in respect of commercial technology agreements, cloud computing services agreements, data and privacy laws, and associated fields.
David is a long-standing Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University, where he teaches the ‘Advanced Intellectual Property’ course and is a five-time recipient of the Faculty’s Teaching Award of Excellence. David is also the author of the Cloud Computing chapter in LexisNexis’ ‘Social Media and Internet Law’ legal textbook.
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