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Sanro Zlobec

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Sanro Zlobec

Principal
  • Smart & Biggar LP
Language(s): English | French | Spanish | Croatian

An experienced and collaborative advisor for your team

Sanro applies 25 years of IP experience to assist clients in the technology space with identifying, protecting and monetizing their innovations.

With a solid and extensive background rooted in the patent field, his focus is on obtaining commercially targeted IP rights that bring value to clients through litigation, transactions and licenses.

Sanro’s time is also spent on M&A and investment due diligence, ownership assessments and IP audits, including the identification and characterization of know-how and trade secrets.

He is also involved in assessing compliance with Quebec’s recently launched “IP Box”, as well as developing strategies for optimizing the available tax deduction from eligible IP assets, including patents and software.

With a collaborative mindset and a focus on results, Sanro’s mission is the success of the client, be they a high-tech start-up or a global enterprise in a range of industry sectors, such as telecommunications, transportation, software, sporting goods, medical devices and financial services.

Qualifications

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  • In the Media
  • "Aligning Your IP Strategy with Your Business Strategy", (co-speaker: Shafiq Manji), Canada's Ocean Supercluster Conference, May 16, 2023
  • "Les données en milieu d'entreprise : reconnaître les enjeux de création, de protection et de valorisation", (panel moderator), ACC-Québec Chapter and Smart & Biggar Webinar, November 3, 2021
  • “Managing your IP to enhance your position ahead of a prospective investment or exit”, (co-presenter, Brigide Mattar), BDC Capital Women in Technology Venture Fund and Smart & Biggar Webinar, March 31, 2021
  • "The IP Practitioner's Guide to Crowdfunding" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Banff, AB, October 2015
  • “How Patents Add Value for Innovative SMEs” (co-presenter), inaugural Private Breakfast by the British Quebec Business Coalition (BQBC), Montreal, March 2015
  • “The Supreme Court Gets Abstract (Or Does It?): Patent Eligibility After Alice v. CLS Bank” (co-presenter), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Halifax, NS, October 2014
  • “The Industrial (Design) Revolution: Perspectives From Both Sides of the Border” (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Gatineau, QC, October 2013
  • "Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Prosperity" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, October 2012
  • "Resurrecting the Requirement to Work the Invention" (moderator) and "The Supreme Court's Sanofi Decision - Three Years Later" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 2011
  • "Copyright in the Digital Age" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Toronto, October 2008
  • "Recent Anti-Piracy Developments in Canada" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and the New York State Bar Association summer meeting, Montreal, July 2008
  • "10 U.S. Patent Decisions in 60 Minutes” (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, October 2007
  • "Effective Patent Searching Strategies" (moderator), Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Spring Meeting, Gatineau, QC, March 2007

Memberships

  • Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada; past Chair of the Forums and Seminars Committee (2011-2013)
  • Member, Canadian-Croatian Chamber of Commerce
  • Member, Licensing Executives Society (LES)

Teaching Activities

  • "Alternative Patent Leveraging", IPIC/McGill University 2023 Summer Courses in Intellectual Property, July 22, 2023
  • "Alternative patent leveraging", IPIC/McGill University 2022 Summer Course Understanding Patents, Montréal, July 22, 2022
  • "Patent Agent Exam Prep - Paper A", (co-presenter), IPIC webinar, October 21, 2021
  • "Alternative Patent Leveraging", (co-speaker), Understanding Patents - IPIC /McGill University 2021 Summer Courses in Intellectual Property, July 23, 2021
  • "Patent Claim Drafting", (workshop leader), IPIC/McGill University 2021 Summer Courses in Intellectual Property, July 19, 2021
  • "Patent Agent Training Course - Paper A", (co-presenter), IPIC webinar, May 6, 2021
  • "Patent Agent Exam Prep - Paper A", (co-presenter), IPIC webinar, October 6, 2020
  • "Patent Agent Training Course - Paper A", (co-speaker), IPIC webinar, August 21, 2020
  • Course GLIS-662 "Intellectual Capital Management" (guest lecturer), McGill University Faculty of Education, Montreal, November 23, 2011
  • "Patent claim drafting" (workshop leader), IPIC-McGill course Understanding Patents, Montreal, July 2010

Publications