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IP Management
MaRS Centre 101 College Street Toronto
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.
This seminar gives you some basic tools for assessing your intellectual capital and a set of strategies for effectively capitalizing on it.
Part of the Entrepreneurship 101 Series
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About the speaker
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 has been profiled in the Canadian Bar Association’s National magazine and Career Verdict and quoted on legal issues in PROFIT Magazine and IT Focus Magazine. He has authored numerous papers and presented seminars in the area of technology law, including Technology Agreements (Ontario Bar Association 2005), Legal Issues in Open Source Licensing (Real World Linux Conference 2004), Starting a Start-up (Annual Tabrizi Law Office Start-ups Workshop at the University of Toronto Faculty of Engineering, 2002-Present), Intellectual Property Strategy (University of Toronto Rotman School of Business 2005), International Technology Transfer and Partnering (Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Seminar 2003), Towards a Model for University Spin-offs (Thesis 1998), and Strategic Alliances in Technology: Can't Live Without Them... and How to Live With Them (Silicon Iran Magazine 2002). He is a past contributor to the Electronic Commerce Chapter of the O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms for Computer and Information Technology.
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.
Tabrizi is fluent in Spanish and Farsi and conversant in French.
