Mr. Christian Robillard
As Director Intellectual Property, Christian manages B-Temia’s patent and industrial design portfolio and obtained patent and industrial design protection for KEEOGO™. He is an electrical engineer and a registered patent agent in Canada and the United-States with over 19 years of experience in intellectual property combined with 5 years of experience in public and private companies specialized in Internet technologies and systems engineering. He drafted and obtained more than 100 patents and industrial designs in biomechatronics and medical devices, among which the Power Knee™, the first motorized bionic leg prosthesis for above-knee amputees, for Victhom Human Bionics Inc., and he managed their patent and industrial design portfolio.
Mr. Robillard was a guest speaker for the “Introduction to Intellectual Property” Master of Law program at University of Montreal for 5 years, and he gave presentations and provided training in intellectual property at University of Sherbrooke and Développement économique, innovation et exportation Québec. He holds Bachelors’ degree in Electrical Engineering and in Applied Mathematics, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Minor in law and further graduate studies in innovation management.
He is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada where he sits on the Information, Communication & Technology Committee as well as on the Patent Agent Examination Board.