 Bennett Jones Education University of Alberta, BSc, 1985 University of Alberta, LLB, 1989 Bar Admissions Alberta, 1990 Overview Ted Yoo is a registered patent and trademark agent in both Canada and the United States. His practice covers all matters related to intellectual property (IP), but is particularly focused on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, licensing, patentability and freedom to operate opinions, and IP review in support of financings, and mergers and acquisitions. With a background in microbiology and chemistry, and an enduring personal interest in all areas of technology, Ted acts for clients in the fields of biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, forestry and agriculture, and the oil and gas industry. In particular, Ted has significant experience with pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, fuel cells, fertilizer production, upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum technology, and computer-related inventions. He is a Sessional Lecturer in IP Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta and has lectured in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta. Past and present memberships and volunteer positions include:
,,Yoo relishes working with inventors from the early stages of ideation through to creation and monetisation.,, Select Experience • Blue Ant Media in its go-public transaction by way of reverse takeover of Boat Rocker Media • Champion Petfoods, maker of ORIJEN and ACANA, in its sale to an affiliate of Mars, Incorporated. • Clearpath Robotics Inc., a leader in autonomous robotics, in its sale to Rockwell Automation, Inc. • EZ Core, in selling Drive Rental assets to Cahill Services for $24 million. • An Alberta-based oilfield services company with operations in North American and the Middle East, in its US$26-million disposition of its business and operating assets to a US-based strategic buyer. • Progressive Home Warranty Solutions Inc. and Pacific Home Warranty Insurance Services Inc. (the "PHWG Group"), in the sale of all of the shares and business of PHWG Group to Hub International Limited. • A private equity firm, in completing a strategic bolt-on acquisition to an existing portfolio company in its fund with a value of $6 million. • Enerbuilt Technologies Inc., in the sale of all of its assets and business to Flameless Solutions Inc., a related entity to WesternOne Inc., a reporting issuer, for consideration of cash and securities of WesternOne Inc., and related pre-closing reorganization of Enerbuilt Technologies Inc. • Enviro Vault Canada Ltd. and various affiliates, in sale of substantially all of its assets to Sundance Holdings Corporation. • Pipeworx Ltd., a widely held private business (with operations in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba), in the sale of all of the shares in the capital of Pipeworx Ltd. to PLH Group, Inc. (a US-based portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners (being a US private equity firm)), by way of an exempt takeover bid. • Selling shareholders, in a sale of all of the shares in the capital of Victory Rig Equipment Corporation to Trinidad Drilling Ltd. • Preo Software Inc., in its reverse takeover of CDG
Investments Inc. by way of a plan of arrangement and related CNQ
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