Mojdeh Bahar ( fa, مژده بهار) is an American patent attorney and government official specialized in

technology transfer Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...

. She is the associate director for innovation and industry services at the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

. Bahar previously worked as the assistant administrator for technology transfer at the

Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with ext ...

. She was chief of the cancer branch in the

NIH Office of Technology Transfer The NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) plays a strategic role by supporting the patenting and licensing efforts of our NIH ICs. OTT protects, monitors, markets and manages the wide range of NIH discoveries, inventions, and other intellectual pr ...

Education

Bahar completed a B.S. with honors in chemistry and French at

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

in 1994. She earned a M.A. from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Career

Bahar was an examiner with the

United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alexa ...

(USPTO). She is a certified licensing professional, a registered technology transfer professional and a patent attorney registered to practice before the USPTO, the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and the

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (in case citations, Fed. Cir. or C.A.F.C.) is a United States court of appeals that has special appellate jurisdiction over certain types of specialized cases in the Federal judiciary of ...

. Bahar worked at the chief of the cancer branch at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer. She led a team responsible for marketing, patenting and licensing NIH and

Food and Drug Administration The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a List of United States federal agencies, federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is respon ...

inventions in the areas of cancer, gene therapy and biological response modifiers. While working at the NIH, Bahar first served as the regional coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) from 2008 to 2011 and then as the national chair from 2011 to 2013. Bahar was the assistant administrator for technology transfer at the

. She had broad responsibility for managing intellectual property and technology transfer across the

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, ...

. Bahar led the service’s external interactions with industry, academia and government dealing with intellectual property and technology transfer. In May 2020, Bahar joined

(NIST) as the associate director for innovation and industry services (ADIIS). She oversees NIST's technology transfer programs. When she joined, she reported directly to director Walter Copan. Bahar translated poems by Iranian writer

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani ( fa, محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, also Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) National Institute of Standards and Technology people National Institutes of Health people United States Department of Agriculture officials Dickinson College alumni New York University alumni University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni 21st-century American women lawyers 21st-century American lawyers American people of Iranian descent American patent attorneys