North Forge - ElevateIP Webinar

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Join North Forge for a practical look at how to leverage provisional patents, hosted by North Forge’s ElevateIP Program and Ade & Company Inc.

Provisional Patents as IP Leverage

Risks, rewards, and strategic realities

This keynote will walk founders through how provisional patent applications actually work in practice, and where the real risks and benefits lie. The session will cover what level of technical detail is required to properly support a provisional filing, how enablement affects the strength and future value of an application, and why “reduction to practice” matters when timing a patent strategy. Attendees will come away with a clearer understanding of when a provisional patent meaningfully strengthens an IP position and when it can create false confidence or long-term problems.

About your keynote speaker:

Michael Williams, Ph.D. Patent Agent & Biochemist

Mike has a B.Sc. in Genetics (Honours) from the University of Manitoba, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Texas A&M University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has worked as a patent agent at Ade & Company Inc. for 30 years and has extensive experience with patents in many biological areas, including vaccines, recombinant proteins and expression systems, transgenic plants, antibiotics, fertilizers, pesticides and food products.