Outside publications

Patents and Intellectual Property

I have a series of patent related posts on the IPWatchdog blog, the leading IP blog.

Communication Techniques to Get Prompt Client Instructions

Don’t settle for less: Maximizing patent protection in Canada

Minimizing costs while ensuring foreign patent maintenance fees

The China Syndrome: How recent developments in Chinese patents affect U.S. applicants

Physics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics is probably the most popular physics textbook ever published. Based on lectures given by the late Nobel prize winner Richard Feynman, the textbook is a calculus based general physics course covering topics from most branches of physics, from mechanics, to quantum mechanics, including optics, electromagnetism and much much more. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is also a web site dedicated to this famous series of books. The web site includes many physics problems. I contributed an original solution to one of the problems. The other solutions that were presented on the site needed complex calculations. However, with a bit of geometry and a change of frame of reference, the problem was solved here in a few lines.

Technical papers

Buschmann, Michael, Fortin, Manuel, Chimie pour ingénieur : notes de cours supplémentaires, École polytechnique (Montréal, Québec)
École polytechnique de Montréal, 2003 – 164 pages

Manuel Fortin, Michael D. Buschmann, Michel J. Bertrand, F.Stuart Foster, Jonathan Ophir Dynamic measurement of internal solid displacement in articular cartilage using ultrasound backscatter, Journal of Biomechanics, March 2003Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 443–447

Fortin, Manuel; Buschmann, Michael D.; Bertrand, Michel J.; Foster, F. S.; Ophir, Jonathan; Cross-correlation of ultrasound A-lines to obtain dynamic displacement profiles within poroelastic materials undergoing stress relaxation. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 3982, p. 286-294 (2000).

P.A. Mathieu and M. Fortin, EMG and kinematics of normal subjects performing trunk flexion/extensions freely in space. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2000, Pages 197-209