About this Event
From your brand and product designs to proprietary processes, software, inventions, trade secrets, and innovative ideas, intellectual property often represents some of the most valuable assets a business owns. Yet many businesses fail to identify, protect, or properly manage these assets until it is too late.
Join Innovate Niagara for a practical workshop designed to help entrepreneurs, startups, and business owners better understand intellectual property and the steps they can take to protect it.
Whether you are developing a new product, building a brand, growing a technology company, or preparing your business for investment or acquisition, understanding your IP can help strengthen your competitive advantage and create long-term value.
What You Will Learn
Identifying Intellectual Property
Learn how to recognize the intellectual property that may already exist within your business.
Understanding Protection Options
Explore the different tools available to protect your intellectual property.
Reducing Risk
Understand common mistakes businesses make when managing IP and learn strategies to avoid.
Building Business Value
Learn how intellectual property can support your growth and commercialization.
Featured Speaker
Akiv Jhirad: Founder, Vantage IP Advisory
Akiv Jhirad is an Ontario-licensed intellectual property lawyer and founder of Vantage IP Advisory.
He advises startups and small businesses on identifying, protecting, and managing intellectual property. His work includes IP audits, trademark and patent searches, and agreements that secure ownership of IP created by employees and contractors. He also assists businesses in assessing the value of intellectual property in connection with financing, licensing, and sale transactions.
With a background in engineering, Akiv brings a practical and industry-focused perspective to intellectual property strategy, particularly for technology-based companies.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is ideal for:
- Entrepreneurs
- Startup founders
- Technology companies
- Product developers
- Small business owners
- Manufacturers
- Anyone developing products, services, software, or brands
Why Attend?
Many businesses do not realize the value of their intellectual property until they face a dispute, funding opportunity, or acquisition process.
This session will help you better understand what intellectual property exists within your business, how it can be protected, and how it can contribute to your long-term growth and success.
Location
Innovate Niagara
386 St. Paul Street Suite 102St. Catharines ON
Registration is required.
Event venue & nearby stays
Innovate Niagara, 386 Saint Paul Street, St. Catharines, Canada
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