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Meet Ottawa-Gatineau’s 2023 Bootstrap Award winners

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The annual event, sponsored by Smart & Biggar and The Ottawa Network, is a celebration of self-funded startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of categories.

Protecting your product’s design and function are equally sound IP investments

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If your product’s design contributes to its value proposition, you need to protect it to stay profitable. Smart & Biggar explains why.

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From escalators to dry ice, how to avoid “genericide” in your brand

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Victims of genericide include products like dry ice and linoleum, which had trademarks that became known as the generic name for a product or service.

Bright Side of Business: Connected Canadians on a mission to offer all seniors free tech training by 2030

Ottawa

Alongside wellness, art and games, organization offers customized one-on-one training and support sessions as well as workplace volunteering programs and workshops.

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Software secrets: Start with a clear intellectual property strategy to secure business growth

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Software entrepreneurs know how important it is to align technology to customer needs and a solid business case. Why would your intellectual property be any

How an Ontario startup is fighting wildfires – and climate change – one patent at a time

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A group of Ontario firefighters-turned-entrepreneurs have found a way to make battling flames a safer business – not only for first responders, but for the

Practical steps to protecting great entrepreneurial ideas

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The team at Smart & Biggar can help businesses establish an internal IP strategy that can maximize the effectiveness of their patents and trademarks.

Meet Ottawa’s 2021 Bootstrap Award winners

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List includes a manufacturer of ultra-efficient solar panels, a fast-growing software firm that sells an e-commerce bug-detection platform and a pharmacy dedicated to cancer patients.

How strategic IP helped propel Hexo into a multimillion-dollar cannabis powerhouse

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HEXO knew it had to be proactive in securing a strategic portfolio of intellectual property (IP) assets – including patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights.