
About this Event
⚡ Registration is required through Eventbrite, and priority will be given to participants with a registered business.
🚀 Ready to put your innovation skills to the test? At Edmonton Startup Week, you’ll join a team of peers and use a fictitious startup scenario to and design an IP strategy that can stand up to real-world challenges. Each team is themed—Life Sciences, SaaS, Medtech, Consumer Retail & Lifestyle, Deep Tech, and Clean Tech—so you’ll dive into the sector that excites you most. Along the way, you’ll tackle patent and trademark searches, confront a wild card scenario, and sharpen your ability to make smart, fast decisions under pressure. With tools like the CIPO IP Checklist, a 1-page IP guide, and worksheets designed to help you think like an investor, you’ll level up your startup toolkit in just one afternoon. To cap it off, every team will pitch their strategy and get live feedback from peers and experts.
✨ Experts will be on hand to guide your learning every step of the way, making this a dynamic, hands-on experience where you learn by doing and leave armed with practical insights to fuel your next big idea.
👉 This workshop is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a basic understanding of IP and are eager to put that knowledge into practice.
By participating in this session, you will achieve there following learning outcomes:
- Discover how to identify the most valuable parts of a product to protect first.
- Build confidence applying patent and trademark searches to guide business strategy.
- Learn how to pivot and adapt IP plans in response to high-pressure curveballs.
- Devise short-, mid-, and long-term steps to develop a resilient IP protection roadmap.
- Describe your preliminary IP Protection Strategy
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Edmonton Unlimited, 10107 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Canada
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