CIBC presents Entrepreneurship 101 - IP Management

2008-02-06

Speaker: Mr. Arshia Tabrizi

Intellectual capital is the lifeblood of your venture. Of course you want to properly protect your ideas and innovations. But perhaps more importantly you should have a broader strategy on how to best capitalize on your innovations.

You should come out of the seminar with some basic tools for assessing your intellectual capital and a set of strategies for effectively capitalizing on it.

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Arshia Tabrizi is the Founding Partner of Tabrizi Law Office, a boutique Business and Technology law firm in Toronto, Canada. Tabrizi advises leading start-ups, angel investors, venture capitalists, and public companies in Canada and Silicon Valley on local and cross-border:

Technology Licensing and Transactions
Venture Capital Financings
Intellectual Property Law
Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures
Mergers and Acquisitions

He has structured and negotiated numerous transactions in the health informatics, communication, networking, optical component, computer peripherals, semiconductors, Internet infrastructure, E-business, hardware, software, streaming media and B2B industries.

Prior to opening Tabrizi Law Office, Tabrizi worked in the Technology Transactions Group at the pre-eminent Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. He has also practiced business and technology law at two leading Bay Street law firms.

Tabrizi holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, as well as a B.A.Sc. (Hon.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Engineering. He has worked as a Software Developer at IBM Canada and as an NSERC Research Associate at the University of Toronto Bell Opto-electronics Laboratory. He was Valedictorian at the International College of Spain graduating with a Bilingual International Baccalaureate Degree in Spanish and English.

He is a Member of the State Bar of California, Law Society of Upper Canada, Canadian Bar Association, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, Canadian Venture Capital Association, Toronto Angel Group, Licensing Executives Society, Toronto Computer Lawyers’ Group and York Technology Association. He also sits on the Board of the Parya Trillium Foundation.