Background

Louis Allard is a Patent Agent with the Ottawa office. Louis obtained bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Université de Moncton and a Ph.D. degree in physics from University of Ottawa. Louis has acquired a vast experience in high-tech technology working as a postdoctoral fellow at Université de Montréal, as a research assistant at the National Research Council and as an optical designer at JDS Uniphase Corp.

Louis is author and co-author of over twenty scientific articles and holds, as an inventor, four U.S. patents related to the measurement and control of polarization of light beams. Perfectly bilingual, Louis is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Professional Group.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual property - specializing in drafting and prosecution of patent applications related to high-tech, in particular: Solar Energy, Lightwave Technology, Electrical Circuit Design and Nuclear Energy.

Professional and Community Activities

• Member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.