Education

Professional Affiliations

Publications

Continuing Education

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Areas of Practice:

Julie Gauvreau has been practicing in the field of intellectual property field since 1998 and has been a member of the firm since then. She became a partner of the firm in 2004 and was appointed Senior Partner on January 1, 2008.

• Patents (biotechnological, chemical and proteomic)
  
• Trade-marks
  
• Intellectual Property Licensing
• Trade Secrets
• Legal protection of plants and seeds

Education:

Called to the Quebec Bar in 1998

L.L.B., Common Law, McGill University, 1997

B.C.L., Civil Law, McGill University, 1997

B.Sc.A., Microbiology, Université de Montréal, 1993

Professional Affiliations:

Quebec Bar

Canadian Bar Association

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)

Association du Jeune Barreau de Montréal (AJBM)

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Publications:

“Tax credit for intellectual property professional fees and disbursements”. Newsletter GGData, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2005

“The Monsanto Case: Does the Supreme Court’s Ruling Indirectly Protect Higher Life Forms?”, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 2004

“The Small Entity Status Revisited by the Federal Court of Appeal”, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2003

Dubuc,. J.H., Gauvreau, J., “Developments in the field of industrial design in Canada”, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2002

“Reform of Invention Protection in the United States”, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2001

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Continuing Education:

"Trade-marks I: An Intensive Practical Course", McGill Centre for Continuing Education and Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, 1999

"Chemical Patent Law", Patent Resources Group Inc., 1999

"Patent Bar Review", Patent Resources Group Inc., 2002

"Biotechnology Patent Prosecution, Licensing, Litigation & Hatch Waxman", Patent Resources Group Inc., 2004

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Conferences and Seminars:

"Propriété Intellectuelle", Pharmacy Faculty - Université Laval, 2003-2007

"Le métier d'agent de brevets", Université de Montréal, January 2003

"La propriété intellectuelle - Mythes et réalités", Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, January 2002

"Intellectual Property in Graphic Design", Dawson College, November 2001

"Stratégies de gestion d’un portefeuille de propriété intellectuelle", Musée du Québec, Quebec city, June 2000