Isabelle Chabot

Biography

Isabelle Chabot has practised in intellectual property since 1999. She focuses on software, electronics, telecommunications, optics, business methods and information technology in general. She handles all aspects of protecting inventions, including preparing patentability, validity and infringement opinions, drafting patent and industrial design applications and prosecuting those applications locally and internationally, notably before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and the European Patent Office. She participates in the decision-making process of start-ups for intellectual property management and conducts due diligence analyses of intellectual property portfolios and prospectus drafting in collaboration with lawyers of the firm's Business Law Group.

Ms. Chabot spent the third year of her undergraduate degree in optics engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Year of Registration

• United States (patents) 2004
• Canada (patents) 2003

EDUCATION

• B.Sc.A., Electrical Engineering - Optics and Software, University of Arizona/Université Laval, 1999

Media Highlights

• Regular contributor to the IEEE Canadian Review magazine

Memberships and Activities

• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (committees - Forums and Seminars , Public Awareness)
• International Federation of Intellectual Propert Attorneys
• International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• Engineer member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Association for Computing Machingery