Arash Sayyah, Ph.D., Esq., is a registered patent attorney in the Advanced Media Lab at Ofinno, where he protects innovations in cutting-edge compression technologies for 2D and 3D content. With a robust background in multi-disciplinary engineering research, Arash brings deep technical insight to the evaluation and protection of complex intellectual property.
Prior to joining Ofinno, Arash was an associate at an intellectual property boutique firm in Washington, D.C., where he drafted and prosecuted patent applications in areas including communication systems, computer networking and routing, financial technology, business transactions, machine learning, and electric power systems.
Arash earned his J.D. and LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. During law school, he completed a full-time internship in the chambers of the Honorable Circuit Judge Jimmie V. Reyna at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Before entering law school, Arash worked at two law firms, drafting and prosecuting patent applications in technologies such as uninterruptible power supplies, 3D printing systems, mobile and software applications, and cloud-based storage platforms.
Earlier in his career, Arash was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), collaborating with Saint-Gobain Research North America. He holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, earned from Boston University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Shahid Beheshti University, respectively.
Arash is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Maryland.