Daniel Arthur Kent

Daniel Arthur Kent — Founding Partner, Kent & Risley LLC (Alpharetta, GA)

Practice focus. Kent's practice is IP litigation — patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and plant variety protection — with a national footprint and a strong Georgia local-counsel component. His reported patent matters have spanned semiconductors (Freescale v. STMicroelectronics), medical devices (Go Medical v. C.R. Bard; Tillotson v. Omni), textiles and mechanical/power-tool art (Southern Mills v. Polartec; Kentec v. Allied Fastener Tool), logistics and voice/VoIP software (Telematics v. Xata; NICE/Witness Systems), and pharmaceutical/agricultural biotechnology (AGS Genetics). His tracked patent filings cluster in networking and Wi-Fi technology: the four CommWorks Solutions matters assert broadband, QoS, and IEEE 802.3ah / 802.11 (WPS, WMM) networking patents against Technicolor entities in N.D. Ga. and elsewhere.

Side preference. The tracked docket is 4-for-4 on the plaintiff side, and in each instance as local counsel rather than lead trial counsel. CommWorks Solutions is a patent-assertion entity (NPE) pursuing cable, ISP, and router-vendor defendants, so on this docket Kent functions as the Georgia/E.D. Tex.-admitted local anchor for out-of-state NPE plaintiffs. The historical Martindale-reported record is genuinely mixed — he has represented both patentees (BabyBjörn, Southern Mills, Porter-Cable-type mechanical cases) and accused infringers (Witness Systems, Insituform) — so his broader practice is closer to both-sides IP litigation than a pure plaintiff-side shop. The plaintiff-only profile here is likely an artifact of the small tracked sample.

Firm and PTAB context. Kent co-founded Kent & Risley in February 2016 with Stephen R. Risley after leading Kent Law (2010–2016) and co-founding Fish & Richardson's Atlanta office (2006–2010); earlier stints at Jones Day, Needle & Rosenberg, Altman Kritzer & Levick, and Alston & Bird. He has PTAB experience, though not as a heavy repeat player: he appears as back-up counsel for patent owner Alexsam, Inc. in CBM2017-00041 and CBM2017-00042 (U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,189,787 and 6,000,608). Other Kent & Risley attorneys handle the firm's IPR docket (e.g., Sunflower Licensing in IPR2022-01498). His published bar admissions list does not include USPTO registration.

Bar and education. Admitted in Georgia (1990); also admitted in N.D./M.D./S.D. Ga., E.D. Tex., S.D. Ind., the Court of Federal Claims, the Eleventh and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court; J.D., Duke University School of Law (1990); B.S., Grace College (1986). No public verdicts, settlements, or Federal Circuit opinions are verifiable for the CommWorks/Technicolor matters — the N.D. Ga. case (No. 1:22-cv-02827) is recorded as closed, but the disposition terms are not publicly reported.