I'm Louis Carbonneau

ABOUT ME

Mr. Carbonneau is a recognized expert in intellectual property with close to 30 years of professional US, Canadian and international experience in all facets of intellectual property law and business. He is a former patent litigator with a national IP boutique firm and the former General Manager of IP Licensing at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 15 years. The prestigious British magazine Intellectual Assets Management (IAM) recently named him for the fifth consecutive year as one of the World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Mr. Carbonneau is currently CEO of TANGIBLE IP, LLC, a patent brokerage and strategic intellectual property advisory firm, focusing on IP monetization and strategic IP advisory services. Since he founded the firm in 2011, Mr. Carbonneau has brokered the sale of over 2000 patents, returning tens of millions of dollars to patent owners and inventors and has helped several technology clients define their IP strategy and reduce both business risks and costs when it comes to IP. Finally, Mr. Carbonneau is a Venture Partner and strategic advisor to Cycle Capital Management, an early stage clean tech venture capital firm with close to $250M under management, and a Special Consultant for IP Strategies & Licensing to one of the largest startup incubators in Canada. He also sits on the Board of Directors for a few startups with disruptive technologies in the clean tech sector. Mr. Carbonneau is a frequent guest speaker locally and internationally on the subject of intellectual property strategy, patent monetization, innovation and licensing and how they relate to business. Mr. Carbonneau is also an inventor himself and holds US international patents around multimedia technology.