Cover Your Assets | An Introduction to IP (Week 1: The Overview)

Are you looking to learn more about intellectual property?

This series will cover all the basics of the different types of intellectual property and will help get you started on your IP journey. Attend an individual session or a minimum of four sessions to received a badge of completion and recognition.

THIS WEEK: Week 1: An Overview: What is intellectual property and why is it important?

This week we'll do a general overview of the different types of intellectual property and discuss how they each work, what they protect, how long they last, and how they become assets to for you and/or your brand, company, and assets.

This event will be held in Anderson Hall in room AH118.

What is Cover Your Assets?

This series will cover all the basics of intellectual property. It will provide a general overview, go into the different types of intellectual property, and will help you get started on your IP journey. Attend an individual session or a minimum of four sessions to receive a badge of completion and recognition.

Here’s a glimpse of the full series:

• Wednesday, January 18th | General Overview
• Wednesday, January 25th | Patents
• Wednesday, February 1st | Trademarks
• Wednesday, February 8th | Copyright/Industrial Design
• Wednesday, February 15th| IP Ownership/Funding Opportunities

Register for the full series here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/intellectual-property-cover-your-assets-series-registration-tickets-475231679747

Do you have a startup business? Consider pitching in our local pitch competition this Spring!

The Launch Point Pitch Competition

The Launch Point Pitch Competition is a high-energy competition to elevate early-stage entrepreneurs on their start-up journey. It provides new founders an opportunity to pitch, validate, and help launch their business idea. Competitors will be challenged to convey:

• the need for their business solution;
• their ability to create and deliver their business idea; and
• their ability to build a sustainable business that will grow over time.

Applications open February 1st, 2023 and close March 30th, 2023.

Learn more about the competition and apply here.

About the Instructor: Dr. Suzanne Sjovold

Suzanne combines her technical background in Neuroscience with 15 years of intellectual property (IP) legal experience to effectively develop and manage her clients’ IP assets. As a registered patent and trademark agent, Suzanne’s practice is focused on clients in the life sciences space, including those involved in novel medical devices, chemical compounds, biologics, and pharmaceuticals. Suzanne also assists clients with protecting mechanical devices, clean energy technologies, and new technologies in the oil and gas sector. Additionally, Suzanne provides clients with legal opinions on patentability, trademark registration, freedom-to-operate, due diligence analysis, and IP portfolio management. Suzanne’s clients include a broad range of early-stage and established companies and post-secondary institutions.

Suzanne grew up in Lethbridge and attended the University of Lethbridge, earning a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. After completing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta, Suzanne attended law school at the U of A with an aim to practice intellectual property, bridging the gap between the scientific and legal spheres. Prior to joining North & Company, Suzanne was a partner at a regional law firm where she was the head of one of the largest intellectual property groups in Western Canada.

Suzanne feels very fortunate to be back in Southern Alberta, surrounded by her extended family. When Suzanne’s not in the office, she spends every spare moment downhill skiing or mountain biking in Fernie with her husband Travis and their two daughters.