Mark Lowey

Canada’s first patent collective launched with defensive “war chest” to protect Canadian IP

Mark Lowey
December 16, 2020

Canada has launched its first patent collective to help data-driven clean tech companies understand, generate and strategically use intellectual property in scaling up. The Innovation Asset Collective, backed by $30 million in federal funding, includes a defensive "war chest" to help Canadian SMEs defend their patents in an often predatory global IP marketplace.

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Organizations: Borealis Wind, Business Development Bank of Canada, Council of Canadian Innovators, Ecopia, Government of Canada, Innovation, Innovation Asset Collective, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Northworks IP, Own Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, and Western University
People: Daniela Roeper, Jim Balsillie, Jim Hinton, Jon Lipinski, Lally Rementilla, Navdeep Bains, and Peter Cowan
Topics: artificial intelligence, blockchain, clean tech sector, clean tech SMEs, COVID pandemic, data-driven companies, digitization, freedom-to-operate patent pool, geospatial imagery, global IP marketplace, IP education, IP generation, IP market intelligence, IP-focused equity fund, leveraging IP, machine learning, national IP strategy, patent acquisition and licensing, patent collective, Patent Collective Pilot Program, patent filings, patent litigation, patent transfer to foreign firms, protecting IP, Scale Ups, and wind power

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