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Dariush Keyhani

Practice Areas

  • Intellectual Property Litigation, Counseling and Licensing

Experience

Dariush Keyhani serves as counsel to Heydary Hamilton PC on U.S. and international intellectual property matters.

Mr. Keyhani regularly serves as lead litigation and trial counsel in patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation matters in federal courts all over the United States and consults clients in all areas of U.S. intellectual property law and licensing.

Mr. Keyhani previously served as a visiting professor of intellectual property law at the National University in South Korea where he taught graduate law courses in intellectual property law to examiners at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). He also previously worked at the international law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP as well other highly regarded Manhattan and New York law firms where he focused on intellectual property litigation matters.

Mr. Keyhani was also the founder and first Editor–in–Chief of the Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal that is now subscribed to by the leading law schools in the United States and is regularly cited. Mr. Keyhani regularly publishes in academic law journals as well as trade journals on a variety of intellectual property law, international, and civil procedure issues and is regularly invited as a guest speaker and panelist at international forums on intellectual property law. Mr. Keyhani has served as an adjunct on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo School of Law where he teaches courses on intellectual property law and litigation.

Mr. Keyhani is admitted in the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and Western District of New York, New Jersey District Court and NJ Bar and is regularly admitted pro hac vice in federal courts around the U.S. .

Education

  • LL.M., New York University School of Law
  • J.D., State University of New York School of Law (Buffalo)
  • M.S., Molecular Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine
  • M.S. Ed., University of Rochester Graduate School of Education
  • B.A., Cum Laude , University of Rochester

Representative Recent Cases Where Mr. Keyhani Has Served As Lead Litigation and Trial Counsel:

Jake Lee v. Accessories By Peak et al., 07–CV–338–JTC (2010, WDNY)(obtained summary judgment for willful patent infringement);

Colucci v. Callaway Golf Company, 6:08–cv–288 (JDL)(2010, Eastern District of Texas)(obtained jury verdict for patent infringement on five Callaway golf putters);

Nav–tv Corporation, Inc. v. Vociti Technologies , LLC72 117 00463 JEMO (2010, American Arbitration Association)(obtained judgment intellectual property license agreement and damages);

Air Vent, Inc. v. Shandex Industrial Inc. , 08 CV 5375 (2009, District Court for the District of New Jersey)(obtained consent judgment of validity and infringement of the two patents at issue);

Representative Publications:

  • “Trademark Infringement and Personal Jurisdiction on the Internet” (forthcoming);
  • “Patent Law in the Global Economy: A Modest Proposal for U.S. Patent Law and Infringement Without Borders,” 52 Vill. L. Rev. 291 (2009);
  • “Permanent Injunctions in Patent Cases,” Buff. Intell. Prop. L. J. 1 (2008);
  • “Bulova Wrongly Decided: A Case against Extraterritoriality of Trademark Law,” 6 Chi. Kent J. Intell. Prop. 33 (2007);
  • “U.S. Patent Law and Extraterritorial Reach,” Vol 7, Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 51 (2005);
  • “35 U.S.C. 287(c) and Patent Infringement of Medical Procedure Patents,” Vol 3, Buf. Intel. Prop. J. 13 (2005) (co–author).