Our
staff includes patent agents registered before the Canadian and
American patent offices, and a trade-mark agent registered before the
Canadian Trade-Mark Office. We can thus act on behalf of our clients
without any intervening agents, before the patent offices of these two
countries.
We work most frequently with inventions
pertaining to the following technical fields: mechanics,
electromechanics, electronics, computer sciences, chemistry, biology
and optics.
Here is a short resumé of our professional staff:
Mr. François Martineau (since 1982) 
- Partner
- Registered patent agent before the Canadian Patent Office (1987)
- Registered patent agent before the American Patent Office (1988)
- Undergraduate degree in biological sciences - University of Montreal (B.Sc. 1979)
- Graduate diploma in management - McGill University (1985)
- Law university training - University of Ottawa and McGill University (1979 to 1982)
- Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- Member of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI)
- Member
of IPIC committees: committee for the revision of the Manual of Patent
Office Practice of the Canadian Patent Office, Insurance committee
Mr. Louis Martineau (since 1992)
- Partner of the firm (since 2007)
- Registered patent agent before the Canadian Patent Office (1998)
- Registered patent agent before the American Patent Office (1999)
- Registered trade-mark agent before the Canadian Trade-Mark Office (2000)
- Undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering - École Polytechnique de Montréal (1995)
- Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- Member of the FICPI (Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle)
- Member of the Ordre des Ingénieur du Québec (Quebec engineers professional order) (ingénieur junior)
- Speaker at numerous events on intellectual property matters
- Member of the IPIC self-regulation committee (2001-2003)
- Tutor of the course "Understanding Patents: An Introductory Course" at McGill University (2002)
- Member of the IPIC intellectual property public awareness committee (since 2002)
- Member of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Bank of Speakers (since 2004)
- Member of the patent agent examination board (2005-2008)
- Liaison between IPIC and CIPO for the patent examination board (2008-2011)
- Tutor of the course "FICPI Claim Drafting Clinic" organised by the Canadian chapter of the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (2009-2010)
- Councillor of the IPIC administrative council (2011-2013)
- Member of the patent agent exam standards committee (since 2012)
- Representative of the IPIC Council before the Quebec National Assembly for the World Intellectual Property day (2013)
- Member of the joint IPIC-CIPO committee for modernizing the intellectual property community concerning the professional regulation - values and ethics working group (since 2013)
