On the path to commercialization, many stakeholders ask about your company’s intellectual property (IP) strategy – investors, strategic partners, and even funding organizations. But the IP strategy for natural products and processes can be particularly tricky to navigate.

In this session, we heard practical strategies and insights from IP expert, Noel Courage of Bereskin Parr, and learned how to access free IP resources through Canada’s Elevate IP program.

This session provided info to help you:

• Gain awareness of the challenges and potential barriers to patenting a biobased or nature-derived innovation
• Fill in knowledge gaps around IP strategies for trade secrets, patents, and trademarks
• Identify product and process developments that may justify patenting versus keeping a trade secret
• Help you articulate your IP strategy to stakeholders
• Learn how to access IP resources through the new national program, Elevate IP

In addition, Shelley Hessian of Springboard Atlantic, a regional provider for Elevate IP, explained how the national program provides IP support to Canadian companies, and how you can access it through their Atlantic IP Advantage initiative or other partners across the country. Watch the video and reach out to us if you have any questions.