Amir Behnia
Over the course of his career, Amir Behnia has conducted approximately 800 interviews with USTPO examiners.
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.
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Transportation & Logistics
- Aerospace
- Aeronautics
- Automotive
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Industrial & Manufacturing Systems & Products
- Power Generation
- Power Generators
- Power Generation
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Toys & Gaming
- Toys
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1999
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 1993
- B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Boston University, 1992
- American Bar Association