Kathleen Marsman Ph.D.

Kathleen Marsman is a patent agent in the Ottawa office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. She became a registered Canadian patent agent in 1999, and a registered US patent agent in 2001. Kathleen drafts and prosecutes patent applications for technologies in the life sciences, biotechnology and chemistry. She also counsels patent applicants on matters of patentability, filing strategy and portfolio management. Kathleen's clients include universities, healthcare institutions, start-up companies, and established companies, as well as individual inventors. Kathleen has laboratory experience with techniques in biochemistry, cell culture, histology, molecular biology, radiochemistry and immunology.

• Preparing and prosecuting patent applications for biotechnology, life sciences, the energy sector, chemical and pharmaceutical inventions for Canadian, US and international patent offices.
• Counselling clients on patent strategy and portfolio management.
• Providing opinions on patentability, infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate issues.
• Advising and assisting with technology transfer in Canadian universities and health-care institutions.
• Conducting intellectual property due diligence for portfolio acquisitions and company financings.

• Contributing Author, "Protecting Your Invention: Navigating the Waters of Inadvertent Public Disclosure," Canadian Biotechnology Industry Guide, 2012.
• Contributing Author, Life Sciences & Chemical Patent Practice in Canada: A Practical Guide, 3rd Edition, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, 2011, available free of charge at www.blgbooks.com.
• Author, "The Patent Watch: Taking an Inventive Approach to Flu Pandemic," BioBusiness Magazine, June/July 2009.
• Author, "The Patent Watch: Showcasing Canadian Technology," BioBusiness Magazine, February 2009.
• Author, "The intellectual Property Environment in Canada," BIOTECanada Insights Magazine, Fall 2008.

Scientific Publications

• Marsman & McBurney, "Dietary fiber and short-chain fatty acids affect cell proliferation and protein synthesis in isolated rat colonocytes," Journal of Nutrition, 1996, 126(5): 1429-37.
• Marsman & McBurney, "Influence of dietary fiber consumption on oxidative metabolism and anaplerotic flux in isolated rat colonocytes," Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Physiology, 1996, 115(1): 81-89.
• Marsman and McBurney, "Dietary fiber increases oxidative metabolism in colonocytes but not in distal small intestinal enterocytes isolated from rats," Journal of Nutrition, 1995; 125(2): 273-82.

• Recognized in the 2012 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Biotechnology).
• Recognized in the 2012 edition of PLC Which lawyer? (Life Sciences: Patent Counselling).