Amir Naini specializes in representing bioscience and high technology companies in litigation, transactions, and strategic counseling involving intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on patent-related matters.  Amir is a member of the State Bar of California, and is a registered patent attorney, admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Amir's legal publications include N.Y. Times Co. v. Tasini, 17 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 9 (2002), and Convergent Technologies and Divergent Patent Validity Doctrines:  A Proposal for Obviousness and Disclosure Analyses in Cases Involving Software and Biotechnology, 86 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc’y 541 (2004).

Amir received his B.A. in biochemistry from Swarthmore College, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Brandeis University.  His doctoral research focused on the structure and function of ion channels, the proteins that mediate cellular electrical properties.  After his doctoral studies, the NIH awarded Amir an Individual National Research Service Award for a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.  His research at Stanford involved studying the detailed molecular mechanisms by which protein kinases transduce and record nerve cell activity.  Prior to law school, Amir gained industry experience with a genomics company.

Bar & Court Admissions

• 2003, California
• Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office