Education

Professional Affiliations

Publications

Conferences & Seminars

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Areas of Practice:

Alain M. Leclerc has been a practitioner in the intellectual property field since 1987. He is a senior partner of the firm since 1995 and presides over the Chemical department. Alain Leclerc was appointed Managing Partner of the firm on January 1, 2006.

• Patents (chemical, biotechnological, mechanical, nanotechnology and proteomic)
  
• Intellectual Property Licensing
• Trade-marks
  
• Trade Secrets
• Industrial Designs

Education:

Called to the Ontario Bar in 1992

Called to the Quebec Bar in 1991

L.L.B., Common Law, University of Ottawa, 1990

L.L.L., Civil Law, University of Ottawa, 1989

B.Sc.A., Chemical Engineering, University of Ottawa, 1986

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Professional Affiliations:

Quebec Bar Association

Canadian Bar Association

Law Society of Upper Canada

American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section (ABA)

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI)

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

International Intellectual Property Forum - Québec (FORQIP)

Quebec Industrial Research Association (ADRIQ)

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)

Licensing Executive Society (LES)

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Publications:

"Survey Evidence, a Tool of Persuasion", Canadian Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 9:2 (158), 1992

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Conferences and Seminars:

"Drafting Patentability Opinions", presented as part of an opinion drafting clinic organized by the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, February 2007

"La propriété intellectuelle...un atout à exploiter", presented to the Association des industriels d’Anjou, 2006

"Are statements of inventions still required? ", Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, 79th IPIC Annual Meeting, Mont-Tremblant, September 2005

"Les brevets pharmaceutiques", presented at the Conférence sur la commercialisation des médicaments au Québec et au Canada, novembre 2004

"Reach-through patent claims: a comprehensive update", presented at the conference on Commercialising IP in the Life Sciences, January 2004

"From Genome Info to Better Medicine", Canadian Bar Association, conference to the Federal Court of Canada, 2003

"Obtaining Strong Patents in Canada", presented to various Japanese audiences

"Patent Foreign filing Strategy and Decision Making Tools", Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological conference of Québec, Quebec City, 2003

"Patent Cooperation Treaty Practice", Infonex conferences on intellectual property, Montreal, 2002

"International Patent Cooperation Treaty", presented as part of the FICPI activities, 1999

"Intellectual Property Practice in Canada", presented to the Wisconsin I.P. Law Association, 1992 and 1996

"Survey of Intellectual Property", presented in various conferences and seminars since 1990

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