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Ph.D., Chemistry and Patent Agent in Canada and in the United States
Montreal
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Laurence Bourget-Merle specializes in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications, and in providing patentability, validity, infringement and right to manufacture opinions in all the fields of chemistry, and more particularly organic, inorganic and polymer chemistry.
She studied in Marseille and Montpellier, France. She was awarded a doctorate in organic, inorganic and industrial chemistry from the Université de Montpellier II in 1996. Her doctorate focused on the preparation of silica, organosilsequioxanes and silicon resins using a non-hydrolytic Sol-Gel process.
From 1997 to 2000, Laurence was a post-doctorate (Marie-Curie Fellowship) with Professor M. Lappert at University of Sussex, England, where she worked on the synthesis of β-diketiminato and 1-azaallyl metal complexes useful as catalysts for polymerization.
In 2001, she moved to the Netherlands where she worked as a research assistant with Professor G. Van Koten, Utrecht Universiteit. Her research was directed to the synthesis of carbosilane dendrimers and the grafting thereof to silica to modify the physico-chemical properties of silica.
In 2003, she worked as a research assistant with Professor G. Hanan at Université de Montréal on the synthesis of polypyridyl like ligands and their ruthenium(II) complexes with luminescence properties.
Laurence is also a member of the Life Sciences committee of the firm.
- Doctorate in Organic, Inorganic and Industrial Chemistry, Université de Montpellier II, France (1996)
- Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) Heterochemistry, Polymers and Catalysis, Université de Montpellier II, France (1993)
- Master in Molecular Chemistry, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France (1992)
- Licence in Molecular Chemistry, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France (1991)
- Diplôme d’études universitaires générales (DEUG), Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France (1990)
- Ordre des chimistes du Québec (OCQ)
- Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- Food processing
- Agrochemicals
- Building materials
- Car industry
- Cardboard packaging
- Chemistry
- Cosmetics
- Petrochemistry
- Pharmaceutics
- Patents - Counsel
- Portfolio Management
- Drafting and Prosecution of Patent Applications
- Validity, Infringement, Freedom to Operate and Patentability Opinions
- Patents - Fields of Science and Engineering
- Medical Devices
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Simple Mechanics
- Catalysis and Polymers
- Polymers Chemistry
- Formulation and Cosmetics
- Analytical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Pharmacology
- Petrochemistry
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- L. Bourget-Merle, P. B. Hitchcock, M. F. Lappert, P. G. Merle, “Synthesis and structures of crystalline Li, Al and Sn(II) 1-azaallyls and β-diketiminates derived from [Li{μ,η3-N(SiMe3)C(Ad)C(H)SiMe3}]2 (Ad = 1-adamantyl)”, Dalton Trans. 2008 Jul 14;(26):3493-501.
- L. Bourget-Merle, Y. Cheng, D. J. Doyle, P. B. Hitchcock, A. V. Khvostov, M. F. Lappert, A. V. Protchenko and X.-H. Wei “β-diketiminates of Some Main Group Elements: New Structural Motifs”, Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry. ACS Symposium Series, 917, 2006, Chapter 14, 193-207.
- J. Wang, Y.‐Q. Fang, L. Bourget‐Merle, M. I. J. Polson, G. S. Hanan, A. Juris, F. Loiseau, S. Campagna, “The Multichromophore Approach: Prolonged Room‐Temperature Luminescence Lifetimes in Ru(II) Complexes Based on Tridentate Polypyridine Ligands”, Chemistry 12(33):8539-48, 2006.
- L. Bourget-Merle, P. B. Hitchcock and M. F. Lappert “Metal β-diketiminates revisited: ansa-CH2-bridged bis(β-diketiminate)s of lithium and aluminium having diverse structures”, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2004, 689, 4357.
- M.F. Lappert, F. Antolini, L. Bourget-Merle, B. Gehrhus, P.B. Hitchcock, P.G. Merle, R. Sablong, J.R. Severn, X.H. Wei, “Studies in 1-azaallylmetal chemistry”, Abstracts of papers of the American Chemical Society, 224: 081-INOR Part 1 August 18 2002.
- L. Bourget-Merle, M. F. Lappert and J. R. Severn “The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes”, Chem. Rev., 2002; 102(9):3031-66.
- L. Bourget-Merle, P.B. Hitchcock and M.F. Lappert, “Novel metal complexes containing 1-azaallyl and β-diketiminato ligands”, Phosphorous, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 2001, 169, 285-288.
- L. Bourget, D. Leclercq, A. Vioux, “Catalyzed nonhydrolytic sol-gel route to organosilsesquioxane gels”, J. Sol-Gel Sci. Tech., 1999, Volume 14, Issue 2, 137-147.
- L. Bourget, P. B. Hitchcock and M. F. Lappert, “Synthesis and structures of neutral and cationic 1-azaallylaluminium methyls”, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 2645.
- J.-M. Frances, P. H. Mutin, L. Bourget, D. Leclercq, A. Vioux, “Process for the preparation of polyorganosiloxane resins, possibly including alkoxide groups, by non-hydrolytic condensation reactions”, United States Patent No. 5,767,216, June 16, 1998 and patent family.
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