X. Kate Ding, Patent Agent and Chemist

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University of Pittsburgh, 

Pittsburgh, PA  

M.S. Organic Chemistry 

Languages

English and Mandarin

Kate, is our resident chemistry expert and patent agent with over 20 years of experience  in the field. 

Her practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications in a wide variety of chemical fields, including organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, materials chemistry, oligonucleotide chemistry, antibody conjugate chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, nanotechnology, catalysis, sensors, and spectroscopy.

License

USPTO Registered Patent Agent

Prior to joining Kendall Square Law Group, Kate spent over five years in two preeminent intellectual property law firms in Boston as a patent agent for Cesari & McKenna LLP and for McCarter & English LLP .

During her work for  these two law firms, Kate drafted and prosecuted thousands of patent applications and managed patent portfolios for some of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally,.

Kate also has in-house patent agent experience working in -house in the legal department of life sciences firm advising patent filings and prosecution strategies. 

Prior to her law firm and in-house work, Kate spent eight years working at Microbiotix Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts, as a research scientist developing novel chemical agents against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria (e.g., Acinetobacter baumannii), viruses (e.g., Ebola) and parasites (e.g., malaria).  Before that, she worked for Pfizer Inc., in itsGroton, Connecticut location, for two years as a senior research associate building libraries of new antibacterial drug analogs against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Kate is a co-author of more than ten scientific articles published in such prestigious journals as the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry.  Kate obtained her license to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office while working at Microbiotix, where she was named as a co-inventor in PCT, U.S., and foreign patent applications for five inventions.