# Jayde Wood

> Jayde Wood is an intellectual property lawyer at Viridant IP in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and founder of Manda. Her practice focuses on IP commercialization, IP agreements and deal-making, including monetization and equity transactions involving IP.

## About Jayde Wood

- [Jayde Wood](https://jaydewood.com/#top): IP lawyer at Viridant IP. Founder of Manda. Vancouver, British Columbia.
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## Legal work

- [Legal work at Viridant IP](https://jaydewood.com/#legal-work): I help companies find the patents still worth keeping, licensing, or selling. My practice focuses on IP commercialization, IP agreements and deal-making, including monetization and equity transactions involving IP.

## Engage Jayde Wood

- [JWood@viridantip.com](mailto:JWood@viridantip.com): Work with me.
- [Viridant IP](https://viridantip.ca/about/): Jayde Wood's current legal practice.
- [Engagement information](https://jaydewood.com/#contact): Legal engagements are through Viridant IP, subject to conflict checks and an agreed scope. Please do not send confidential information in an initial inquiry. Vancouver, Canada.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaydewood/): Profile linked from the site.

## Selected recognition

- [Selected recognition](https://jaydewood.com/#recognition): Historical award records may name my former firm. My current practice is at Viridant IP.
- [Lexpert Rising Stars](https://risingstarscanada.com/2025-winners): 2025 honouree
- [Lexpert Directory](https://www.lexpert.ca/lawyers/jayde-wood-97531): Consistently Recommended: IP; Repeatedly Recommended: Life Sciences & Health
- [IP STARS 2026](https://www.managingip.com/ipstars/practitioners/jayde-wood): Patent Star · Trade Mark Star; Transactions Star; Managing IP
- [Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada](https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/jayde-wood/348609): Since 2025 · Intellectual Property Law & Technology Law

## Manda

- [Manda](https://jaydewood.com/#manda): The buyer’s side of legal knowledge. I founded Manda to help legal teams make use of what they already know: the problem, the work, who handled it, what it cost and the outcome. A record they can find, ask about and use for the next decision.
- [Explore Manda](https://mandaplatform.com/): Alongside that work: better evidence about legal pricing, providers and outcomes. In private development with design partners.

## Writing

- [Selected writing](https://jaydewood.com/#writing): Law, science & people.
- [Recalibrating Incentives in the Algorithmic Age: Expanding Licensable Human Contributions](https://lesi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/lesNouvelles_December2025_Online-Full.pdf#page=40): AI & IP · December 2025; Jayde Wood les Nouvelles · December 2025, pp. 40–44 · PDF
- [Fragmented and shifting CRISPR patent landscape: Global proceedings and the patent pool solution](https://gowlingwlg.com/en/insights-resources/articles/2025/crispr-patent-landscape): Biotechnology & IP · 2025; Jayde Wood · Gowling WLG
- [Access to Justice Online: Are Canadian Court Websites Accessible for Users with Visual Impairments?](https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/view/2458): Access to justice · 2018; Cody Rei-Anderson, Graham Reynolds, Jayde Wood & Natasha Wood Alberta Law Review, 55(3), 647–682 · PDF

## The crew

- [How we work together](https://jaydewood.com/#crew): I work with AI collaborators across my desktop and laptop. They help research, build, check and coordinate. I bring the relationships, legal judgment and commitments. Every piece of advice is mine: I review, decide, and sign everything that goes out.