Tina Dekker

Associate

Ottawa
TDekker@blg.com
613.787.3583

Tina Dekker is a technology lawyer with a practice that focuses on patents and intellectual property strategy to assist clients with the commercialization of their technology. She brings a range of knowledge related to quantum technology and nanotechnology.

Tina is an alum of the Institute for Quantum Computing and has a background in nanoelectronics, quantum devices and microfabrication. During law school, she was a research fellow with the Centre for Law, Technology and Society where she researched, published and presented on the legal and ethical implications of quantum technologies. She also completed an internship with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC).

At BLG, Tina is a contributor to Dead Cat Live Cat, a blog about quantum technologies from a legal and business perspective.

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Professional Involvement

  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Subject Matter Adviser on Quantum Technologies, Research and Innovation Task Force, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, 2022 – Present
  • Associate Member, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, 2022 – Present

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2023
  • JD (magna cum laude), with an Option in Law and Technology, University of Ottawa, 2022
  • MASc (Electrical & Computer Engineering, specialization in Nanotechnology), University of Waterloo, 2019
  • BASc (Nanotechnology Engineering), University of Waterloo, 2017