Transcript The OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic Edward Fan February 6, 2012 © 2012 Torys LLP.

The OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation
Clinic
Edward Fan
February 6, 2012
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© 2012 Torys LLP. All rights reserved.
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Innovation-to-market legal clinic
• Staffed by volunteer law students of Osgoode Hall Law
School
• Public, private and academic collaboration
• Clinic is operated in collaboration with IP Osgoode, the
Ontario Centres of Excellence and Torys LLP
• First collaboration of its kind in Canada between a law
school, a law firm, and a publicly-funded innovation
accelerator centre
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Provides assistance to OCE-supported start-ups
• Clinic staff works pro bono, to minimize costs for the
start-ups
• Focus on patent issues
• Basic prior art searching
• Review and discussion of relevant prior art
• Information on options to protecting innovations
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Consideration of relevant legal issues
• Business owner vs. employees
• Innovation ownership
• Joint research
• Licensing
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Promoting an intellectual property strategy
• Assessments of cost/benefit to patent protection
• Protecting confidentiality and trade secrets
• First to market advantages
• Attracting investment
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Promoting commercial opportunities for publiclyfunded research
• Promoting abilities of young lawyers and students
OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic
• Contacts:
• Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, IP Osgoode
– [email protected]
• Trish Barrow, Ontario Centres of Excellence
– [email protected]
• Edward Fan, Torys LLP
– [email protected]
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