Practice Expertise

  • Chemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Health
  • Cleantech

Areas of Practice

  • Chemistry
  • Cleantech
  • Electrochemistry
  • Health
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation Support
  • Materials
  • Metallurgy
  • Patents
  • Regulatory Affairs
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Profile

Partner | Patent Agent

Isabelle Pelletier is a partner and patent agent in Lavery?s intellectual property group. Isabelle is a patent agent in Canada and the United States and holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Université Laval and a postdoctoral fellowship in material sciences from the University of Delaware.

Her practice covers the areas of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and nanotechnology. It also includes domestic and foreign patent prosecution. She also provides opinions and counselling regarding patentability as well as patent validity and infringement matters. 

Isabelle is also part of the intellectual property litigation group to which she provides technical expertise.

Publications
  • ?The Canada?European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) comes into effect today!?, Newsletter GGData, 2017
  • ?It?s time for your 1st patent!?, Newsletter GGData, 2015
  • ?Omnibus Bill C-43 ? PLT and the Hague Agreement?, Newsletter GGData, October 30, 2014
  • ?Ownership of Inventions Made by Employees in Canada?, Newsletter GGData, Vol. 6, No. 1, May 2006
Conferences
  • ?La PME et les brevets?, several occurrences
  • ?La propriété intellectuelle et les chimistes?, several occurrences
  • ?La recherche et les brevets?, with A. Dumont, several occurrences
  • ?La propriété intellectuelle (PI) : les rudiments » et l?étude de cas « Jean Laflèche?, several occurrences
  • "PM(NOC) Strategy?, 2018
  • ?Régimes fiscaux Patent Box à l?international et la nouvelle déduction pour sociétés innovantes au Québec?, 2017
  • ?IP Careers for Chemists?, 2017
  • ?Patents ? Everything you?ve always wanted to know?, 2014
  • ?La propriété intellectuelle comme actif d?entreprise?, with C. Desjardins, 2012
  • ?Quand le brevet se fait élastique: Stratégies et astuces pour étirer ou raccourcir les délais lors de la poursuite d?une demande de brevet?, with A. Dumont, 2012
  • ?I.P. and you; So, you want a career in I.P.??, 2008
  • ?Quelle est donc la place d?un(e) chimiste dans le monde des brevets??, 2008
  • I. Pelletier, A. Leclerc, ?Are statements of inventions still required??, 79th IPIC Annual Meeting, Mont-Tremblant, 2005
Professional and community activities
  • Association for Development and Innovation in Chemistry in Québec (ADICQ), board member since 2016 and vice-president since 2018 

Education

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, Université Laval, 2004
  • B.Sc. Chemistry, Université Laval, 1999

Areas of Practice

  • Chemistry
  • Cleantech
  • Electrochemistry
  • Health
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation Support
  • Materials
  • Metallurgy
  • Patents
  • Regulatory Affairs

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