IP & AI: What Founders Need to Know
You’re using AI to write code, draft content and develop new ideas. But who owns what comes out of it?
In this session, Michele Ballagh, lawyer and trademark agent at Blaze IP, explains where Canadian intellectual property law stands on AI right now. It’s aimed at founders and innovators. You’ll learn:
Whether you own AI-generated work. Why a prompt alone doesn’t create copyright, and how your own edits and documentation can change that.
Whether AI-assisted inventions can be patented. Who counts as the inventor, and why Canada’s rules for AI patents are stricter than those in the US and EU.
How AI tools can put your IP at risk. How entering inventions or confidential details into AI tools could count as public disclosure, and what to check in a tool’s terms of service.
What to know about your data. Ownership, confidentiality, trade secrets and privacy obligations when your business runs on data.
What’s coming. The lawsuits and federal consultations that will shape the rules.
The law is moving fast, so this session focuses on spotting the issues that matter for your business. You’ll leave knowing what questions to ask and what records to keep.
SPEAKER:
Michelle Ballagh, Principal Lawyer & Trademark Agent @ BlazeIP