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Professor Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino is the founder and director of the IP Innovation Clinic. She is a professor, lawyer, public speaker, board director and internationally-recognized scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ specializing in copyright law, intellectual property (IP), artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies, innovation law, and policy.

She is currently the Associate Vice-President Research (AVPR) at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ as well as Professor of Law and York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Osgoode Hall Law School, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ. From 2024-26 she was the Scientific Director of Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society (a $318 million Canada First Research Excellence Fund [CFREF] funded program led by York in collaboration with Queen's University). She is also the founder and director of the IP Law and Technology Program (IP Intensive Program) and Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program at Osgoode Hall Law School as well as editor-in-chief of Intellectual Property Journal. Prof. D'Agostino was the inaugural co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Society (CAIS) at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, and the Founding Director of the globally-recognized IP Osgoode and the award-winning IPilogue.

She is also the Chair of the Board of the , a Board Director at., and the Founding Chair of the GRE&T Centre Advisory Committee (), which serves as the company’s innovation hub. She was appointed to the and is a Senior Fellow at the .

Professor D’Agostino holds a MSt and DPhil (University of Oxford) with distinction in copyright law, where she was a lecturer in law and the recipient of various scholarships, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship, as well as an LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School), an HonBA, summa cum laude, in English and Political Science and a specialization in French (¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ), holds an ICD.D from the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario (2001 call).

Why was the IP Innovation Clinic Created

Through the IP Innovation Clinic, Prof. D'Agostino puts her scholarship and teaching into practice.

The IP Innovation Clinic is Canada's largest IP clinic and the first legal clinic of its kind, helping inventors and start-ups across with pro bono IP assistance through partnerships with lawyers in private practice. The IP Innovation Clinic was designed to provide pro bono IP assistance to under-resourced inventors, researchers and others while also providing law students with experiential education and client-facing experience. Through this dual mandate, the IP Innovation Clinic works to advance IP sophistication across Canada.

The IP Innovation Clinic works to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Canada. The Clinic has supported hundreds of researchers, inventors, and start-ups helping offset over $2 million in fees that would have otherwise been billable.

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