Founder & Director

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, York University specializing in copyright law, intellectual property (IP), artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies, innovation law, and policy. Professor D’Agostino is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and a world-renowned authority on IP, innovation law and policy.

She is currently the Associate Vice-President Research (AVPR) at York University,  and Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University as well as Scientific Director, Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society ($318 million Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant).  She is also inaugural co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Society at York University, founder and director of the IP Law and Technology Program (IP Intensive Program) at Osgoode Hall Law School; editor-in-chief of Intellectual Property Journal; and founding director of IP Osgoode.

Pina completed her doctoral and master’s studies with distinction at the University of Oxford, where she was a lecturer in law and the recipient of various scholarships, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship.

Professor D’Agostino is Professor of Law and York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Osgoode Hall Law School and is the Vice Director (York) of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society, and Co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Society (CAIS) at York University. She is appointed to the City of Vaughan Smart City Task Force and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). 

Professor D’Agostino brings her creativity and passion to trailblaze new initiatives and was the Founding Director of the globally-recognized IP Osgoode, the award-winning, and IPilogue.

Professor D’Agostino holds a MSt and DPhil (University of Oxford) with distinction in copyright law, an LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School), an HonBA, summa cum laude, in English and Political Science and a specialization in French (York University), 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

Pina is the Founder and Director the IP Innovation Clinic, the first legal clinic of its kind helping inventors and start-ups across Canada and, the IP Intensive Program. Pina how IP legal clinics can support Canadian inventors and entrepreneurs to bring their inventions to market. The IP Innovation Clinic was designed to provide pro bono IP assistance to under-resourced inventors, researchers and others.

Through CIGI and Intellectual Property Ontario, Pina has scaled the operational capacity of her IP Innovation Clinic model, to provide IP law training for law students working directly with lawyers to help clients via pro bono work. The goal is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Canada and the clinic has already achieved numerous start-up success stories and has undercut over $2 million in fees that would have otherwise been billable.

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