Patent Agent

SHERVIN K. NAKHJAVAN

Glendale, CA

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Patent Agent

Professional Experience

 Cardinal Intellectual property Group

Patent Agent / Patent Analyst

08/2008-Present

• Perform a review, search and opinion for international patent applications on behalf of USPTO as our client.

• Perform patentability search and analysis on new inventions or products for the private industry.

 Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC, Los Angeles, CA

Patent Agent / Patent Advisor

12/2005 – 08/2008

• Identify and secure intellectual property protection (e.g., patents) for a broad spectrum of new inventions, discoveries and products with special emphasis on the biomedical devices.

• Enhance the institute’s daily progress by providing counsel regarding intellectual property issues.

• Protect the institute’s assets and rights by acting as liaison between in-house counsel and outside law firm for acting on behalf the institute.

• Counsel institute’s business and research management in intellectual property law as part of the decision making process.

• Identify research that may be subject to filing of patent applications and work with inventors to develop strategies for preparing the patent applications.

• Work with inside and outside counsel to file and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications.

• Work on developing strategy for clients on how they can develop an area, strengthen patents to support products and try to work around potential roadblocks posed by third party patents.

• Counsel clients through participation in various levels of R&D meetings and answer general questions regarding intellectual property.

• Conduct educational client seminars on intellectual property.

• Analyze patents and prepare infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions.

• Work with outside counsel on opinions and aid them in communicating with the right contacts and in gathering correct information and work with outside counsel on litigation, interference or opposition matters.

• Review scientific papers or posters prior to submission for publication and monitor intellectual property activities of third parties in various subject matter areas.

Performance: Above expectation.

 United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA

Patent Examiner / Grade Level: GS-13-02

8/1999 - 8/2005

• Examining Patent Applications in the art of Image Processing class 382 (i.e. Digital Image Watermarks, Electronic document security embedding; Encryption; Manufacturing; Medical imaging; Biomedical Imaging; Pattern recognition etc.).

• Classification determination and patent search accordingly.

• Meeting production quota with respect to the number of patent applications examined biweekly per office guide lines. (i.e. examining up to eight applications biweekly).

• Manage patent docket, plan accordingly and meet deadlines biweekly.

• Attend Continuous patent examination laws and rules education training for six years.

• Prepare and adjust workload per promotion cycle in addition to regular workload.

• Meet with Applicant’s representatives to recommend and solve patentability issues.

• Work as a team on bulk patent filers.

• Work with very limited supervision and take ownership of workload.

Performance: Consecutive overall commendable reviews for six years in the areas of patent functions, productivity, work flow and customer service.

 Commonwealth Scientific Corporation/Veeco, Alexandria, VA

Application Process Engineer/Field Service Engineer

1/1996 - 8/1999

• Qualify multimillion dollars semiconductor systems for customers in thin film industry. (i.e. Sony, Samsung, TDK, Seagate, ReadRite, etc.).

• Prepare wafers and run them under clean room environment in-house and at the customer’s sites.

• Strategic planning of meeting the customer’s required process specification.

• Plan and Meet with the company’s marketing and the executive management to discuss progress and challenges.

• Organize meetings with customers to discuss progress and issues.

• Monitor and troubleshoot the system’s functionality not limited to high vacuum pump, chamber, ion guns, electrical system, software and robotics).

• Field service engineer in charge QA of the system before shipment.

• Installation and running of the system at the customer’s site.

• Qualify system’s component’s one at a time in-house before final shipment.

• Qualify the systems at the customer’s facility and repair as needed.

• Travel extensively and spend weeks and months at a time at customer’s sites nationally and internationally.

Performance: Met job description above and beyond expectations.

EDUCATION

 University of District of Columbia

Washington DC

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 12/1991.

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