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Farzad E. Amini | Partner

Office: Los Angeles
Phone: 310-207-3800
Fax: 310-820-5988
farzad_amini@bstz.com

Farzad Amini is a member of the Patent Practice Group. As a registered patent attorney, Farzad’s primary practice area includes all aspects of drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the electrical, mechanical, and computer software fields.  Farzad also provides counseling regarding infringement of third party products and services, when a client is seeking to enforce a patent, and renders validity and infringement opinions. As well, he counsels on how to deal with threats of infringement, including how to design around a threatening patent or conduct a reexamination of the patent. Farzad has helped negotiate and draft patent license and patent acquisition agreements, and has provided expert opinions to litigation counsel in patent infringement lawsuits. More recently, Farzad has helped a client distill large patent portfolios and large groups of patents, for purposes of acquisition by the client.
 
Farzad had several years industry experience as a design engineer prior to becoming a patent attorney, and has knowledge of or patent-related experience of products in the following technical fields:  fluid power components, electric motors, antennas, microprocessors, graphics processing, computer network communications, telecommunications, digital cameras (including image sensors and optical components), optical communication devices, illumination devices, electro-acoustic devices, and audio signal processing. 
 
"At BST&Z, you can expect to receive timely service and a carefully considered prediction regarding your intellectual property rights, to help you efficiently advance your business interests."

Expertise

Industry

Representative Patents

Patent #: 5,975,291
Apparatus For Holding An Article
 
Patent #: 6,038,593 
Remote Application Control For Low Bandwidth Application Sharing
 
Patent #: 6,046,444
High Sensitivity Active Pixel With Electronic Shutter
 
Patent #: 6,481,664
Automatic Tape Crossover
 
Patent #: 7,849,965
Method And Apparatus For Reaching From Outside An Upper Level Of A Tall Structure
 

Bar Admissions

CA, Bar # 185165

Court Admissions

Southern District of California (1996)

Law School

Loyola Law School

Undergraduate/Graduate Education

University of Southern California
B.S., Electrical Engineering
Degree Distinctions:
Dean's List
 
University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., Electrical Engineering

PTO Reg. #: 42,261


Assistant Contact Information

Margaux Rodriguez
Phone: 310-207-3800
margaux_rodriguez@bstz.com