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Kerrie Manderscheid is a patent coordinator in Gowlings' Vancouver office, working in the Intellectual Property department.
Kerry has over seven years of experience in Canadian and foreign patent practice, including Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) procedures, covering all aspects of patent filing and prosecution, as well as administrative and client services. She has extensive knowledge of both Canadian and foreign patent procedures and keeps current with legislative changes in various jurisdictions.
Kerrie manages large international patent portfolios for direct clients. This includes preparing all correspondence to the foreign associate and to the client from the time the application is filed until the application has been granted. This can also include the preparation of information disclosure statements and monitoring of patent families to ensure that disclosure requirements are met. She also monitors all statutory deadlines on these portfolios.
Kerrie also prepares various submissions to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office including the preparation of filing and assignment documents, as well as prosecution-based correspondence such as requesting examination, preparing voluntary amendments and voluntary submissions, finalizing Office Action responses and attending to final fee payments, and reports these actions to the client.
Prior to joining Gowlings in 2011, Kerrie worked at a boutique IP firm in Vancouver for seven years.
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