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Patent Agent
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Laurence Loumes is a Patent Agent with the Intellectual Property Department in the Montréal office. Her practice focuses on patent issues relating to mechanical engineering matters. She is involved in the drafting process and prosecution of patents and industrial design applications in the United States, Canada and Europe. She also takes part in the preparation of validity opinions, freedom to operate analysis, and prior art searches in various high technology areas.
Laurence is trained as a mechanical engineer, receiving her engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology under a Rotary fellowship. She has extensive knowledge in computational fluid mechanics and fluid-structure interactions. Her interdisciplinary training lead her to specialize in mechanical aspects of medical devices and in biological flows. Following her graduate studies, she conducted microfluidics research at McGill University as a FQRNT fellow. Her academic work has been published in Physics of Fluids and recognized at various international conferences, which lead her to obtaining a patent on the cardiac pump she developed during her doctoral studies.
Education
- California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 2006)
- California Institute of Technology (M.S., 2003)
- Ecole Centrale de Lyon (Engineer, 2002)
- Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I (B.S., 2000)