Sammie Kench is an associate of Thomas Horstemeyer’s patent prosecution group. Sammie assists in drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Her experience in biomedical engineering allows her to cover a wide array of biological, mechanical, chemical, software, and electrical technologies.

While in law school, Sammie held various board positions on the Intellectual Property Law Society. She assisted in educating law students on various intellectual property related matters and helped bolster student interest in intellectual-property-related careers.

Sammie also served as a graduate research assistant where she helped research and write several academic papers on prominent health law related topics, including  the impacts of research payment practices on participants, the importance of trustworthiness and goodwill in recruiting for research trials, and the application of decentralized biobanking as a new model for bioethics and biomedical research to leverage transparency in medical research.

Sammie spent a summer during law school working in a general practice litigation law firm, Jackson Law Group, where she drafted litigation documents and performed legal research.

Before law school, Sammie graduated with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in biomedical engineering and a certificate in intellectual property. She also spent a semester working at a medical device company, Avanos Medical,  where she conducted product testing and performed various technical quality related tasks.

Sammie began working at Thomas Horstemeyer following graduation from law school.