Amir Behnia is a Shareholder at Nixon Vanderhye and a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on patent 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.