Lunch and Learn

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24    11:30AM - 1:30PM

International Centre, Hall 6, Room: "Mississauga A"

MMI Toronto 2012 is pleased to offer an insightful two-hour Lunch & Learn session presented by leading Canadian IP law firm, Ridout & Maybee LLP.

This session will examine "Trending Medical Device Patents" and be delivered by IP lawyer, Benjamin Mak. The following topics, among others, will be covered:

• Exploiting medical device patents
• Listening to your wearable sensors
• Don't hack my insulin pump
• Predicting stock market prices and disease (better Big Data)
• What you can learn from the phone wars (may the force of patents be with you)
• Spin and win the wheel of patent lifecycle

About the Speaker

Benjamin is a patent attorney with the firm of Ridout & Maybee LLP, where he practices intellectual property law.  At Ridout & Maybee, Mr. Mak works in assisting SMEs (small to mid-size enterprises), multinationals, hospitals, universities, individual inventors, and technology companies in garnering patent protection for their inventions.  Prior to his law career, Benjamin researched at a Toronto area hospital in medical imaging.  He remains active in the medical device community as the Toronto chapter chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.  Benjamin obtained his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (biomedical-electrical) from the University of Toronto and obtained his LL.B from the University of Western Ontario.