Press Release 11.28.11
Pillsbury Announces Attorney Promotions for 2012
Lawyers promoted from Real Estate, Health Care, Litigation, IP and Global Sourcing Practices
Pillsbury Intellectual Property partner Christophe Lair is a skilled patent lawyer and experienced engineer with deep knowledge of technical disciplines.
Christophe handles patent prosecution, strategic IP counseling, licensing, technology transactions, intellectual property mining and enforcement, reexaminations, pre-litigation opinions and reissue proceedings for a global clientele. He applies his experience as a research engineer, along with his work in the IP department of the world’s largest semiconductor equipment manufacturer, to advance, protect and monetize his clients’ portfolios. Christophe is well-versed in materials, physics, optics, semiconductors, mechanical tools, lithography, business methods, internet and software IP assets.
Professional Highlights
Co-inventor of “Process for Achieving Intermetallic and/or Intrametallic Air Isolation in an Integrated Circuit, and Integrated Circuit Obtained,” Patent No.: U.S. 6,812,113 (issued Nov. 2, 2004).
Worked as a research engineer in France for STMicroelectronics and for CEA-DAM, the French atomic agency.
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- Associations
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- External Publications
- “New method to study unlanded via architecture. Application to advanced interconnects: Al with Low k and copper dual damascene,” International Interconnects Technology Conference, IITC'2000, San Francisco, California, 2000.
- “Influence of HSQ dielectric on process conditions and impact on CMOS circuit performance,” ESSDERC’1999, Leuven, Belgium, 1999.
- “Integration of HSQ in a sub .2 micron CMOS technology with unlanded via architecture,” VMIC’1999, Santa Clara, California, September 1999 (Outstanding Paper Award of the Conference).
- “Developing a 0.18-Micron CMOS Process,” IEEE Micro, vol. 19, no. 5, pp16-22, September 1999.
- “Planarization properties of hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) influence on CMP,” MAM’99 European Workshop on Materials for Advanced Metallization No. 3, Oostende, Belgium, 1999.
- Proceedings 1998 VMIC conference, IMIC, Tampa, Florida, 1998.
Education
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J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 2003
M.S., Material Sciences (DEA Sciences des Materiaux), Sorbonne Université Paris, 1996
with honorsM.S., Engineering with a specialization in Physics (diplôme d’ingénieur Physicien), ESPCI - PSL Université Paris, 1996
B.S., Physics and Chemistry, University of Toulouse
magna cum laude, ranked first in graduating class
Admissions
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Virginia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Languages
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French