How do you commercialize an idea? Step one: protect it. This week on Cleantech Forward Foresight CEO Jeanette Jackson is joined by Jeffrey Coles, an industry leading IP protection specialist and patent lawyer with Gowling WLG. Jeanette and Jeffrey discuss how protecting your intellectual property can remove barriers in the process of commercialization, common misconceptions about the process of protecting your IP, and what to do if you find yourself the target of a patent troll.

Jeff Coles is a partner in Gowling WLG's Calgary office and a registered Canadian and United States patent agent. He has been assisting clients with securing patent protection for their innovations for over a decade.

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