Richard Stobbe

Richard Stobbe is an intellectual property lawyer, Trademark Agent and Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), helping corporations and individuals throughout Alberta with a practical and solutions-oriented approach. Many of his clients are mid-sized software vendors, company founders and owner-operators who value Richard's responsive, cut-to-the-chase approach to problem solving. He is also called in to flag and resolve issues for corporate transactions involving intellectual property (IP) assets.

Richard works with tech companies involved with oil and gas services, fintech, remote data collection, IoT, artificial intelligence (AI) engines, agriculture, insurance and university-based tech transfer. He has years of experience handling sophisticated business issues involving the full spectrum of IP concerns, including:

• IP licensing
• Franchise law
• Software licensing and escrow
• IP due diligence
• Technology transfer and patent licensing
• Cloud-computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), smart contracts, consortium agreements for private or permission-based ledgers, consortium governance policies, and participant agreements
• Trademark prosecution and dispute resolution
• Domain name law
• Internet law
• Internet-of-things (IoT), data security, and cyber-liability risk assessments
• E-commerce law
• Online Terms & Conditions, and “click-through” agreements
• Privacy law
• Privacy issues related to drone and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
• Data ownership legal issues

Richard has been a course instructor in intellectual property law for the Masters of Biotechnology class at the University of Calgary and for the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University and has been a guest lecturer at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Vancouver. Richard has taught business law at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and "Internet Law and New Media" at the University of British Columbia and has also instructed the course "Internet Law - The Law and New Media" at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.