CONCENTRATION Kent is a senior shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm and is the Chair of the Intellectual Property Division. He practices primarily in the area of intellectual property, thereby protecting the innovations of the firm's clients. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION · AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell. An AV certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence. · The Best Lawyers in America 2011, Intellectual Property Law · Iowa Super Lawyers 2007, Intellectual Property · Great Plains Super Lawyers 2009 & 2011, Intellectual Property SUMMARY Kent has worked extensively in the biological sciences, with a particular emphasis in the corn and soybean seed industry, tracking its dramatic evolution from largely conventional cross-breeding and little or no statutory protections, through the first utility patents on plants, to present day genetic transformation techniques and the novel plants that are produced by those techniques. Kent's other areas of expertise include protecting inventions involving human food and animal feed products and dietary supplements. In this area, inventions focus on extracting natural materials from plants and other organisms, novel chemical synthesis methodologies resulting in compounds having human drug applications, and the bio-engineering of organisms to produce food and dietary supplement ingredients. Kent has also worked a great deal in the area of mechanical inventions, including agricultural harvesting and processing equipment, building and construction systems, and medical devices. In addition to patent application work, Kent also works to protect the trademark, copyright and other intellectual property of the firm's clients, including litigation in the federal courts on intellectual property matters. MEMBERSHIPS Kent is a past president of the Iowa Intellectual Property Association, and has served for many years on the Biosciences subcommittee of the American Bar Association. MEMBERSHIPS American Bar Association Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association Iowa State Bar Association Polk County Bar Association |