Amir Behnia is a Shareholder at Nixon Vanderhye and a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on patent prosecution, as well as domestic and international trademark prosecution. He works with companies and foreign firms in securing patents before the USPTO.

With a domestic and foreign patent prosecution practice primarily concentrated in the mechanical and aeronautics arts, Amir offers in-depth experience working with technologies entailing aircraft, power tools, toys, kitchen appliances, and plastic/paperboard containers.

Amir believes one of the most efficient – and cost-effective – means to secure an allowance of a patent application is through an interview with the USTPO examiner handling the patent application. As a result, he has developed a substantial and varied practice with a focus on conducting examiner interviews for almost all his cases. Over the years, this approach has yielded valuable insights based on interactions with examiners as well as a broad perspective of how cases are examined based on the examiner’s workload.

Prior to joining Nixon Vanderhye, Amir was associated with an intellectual property firm in Alexandria, Virginia, as a registered patent attorney.