Victor Behar*, Ph.D., is a patent agent in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Orange County office. He focuses his current practice on patent prosecution in the chemical arts including in the fields of small molecule and biological pharmaceuticals, applied chemical nanotechnology and material science, and diagnostic tools. His prior prosecution experience includes oilfield technologies, including drilling mud formulations, drill bit coatings, and LWD devices; biomedical devices; dental formulations; biologics; applied bacteriophage technology; polymer preparation and polymer drug delivery; pharmaceuticals; cement blends; nanocomposite materials; nanotechnology; solar cell technology; and food science.
While Victor primarily works in patent prosecution, he has also had experience in litigation support conducting prior art searches and assisting in the preparation of invalidity and infringement contentions. He has extensive experience performing searches for freedom to operate and patentability opinions.
Prior to joining McDermott, Victor was an assistant professor of chemistry at William Marsh Rice University where he ran an NIH-funded graduate research program in synthetic organic chemistry. He served as a postdoctoral fellow under Nobel Laureate E.J. Corey at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Columbia University. Victor earned his M.S. in chemistry from Yale University and his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Victor is a member of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Chemical Society. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Publications
- William G. Dauben, Jeffrey M. Cogen, and Victor Behar, "Clay-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Substituted Allyl Phenyl Ethers: Synthesis of Ortho-Allyl Phenols, Chromans and Coumarans," Tetrahedron Lett. 1990, 31, 3241.
- William G. Dauben, Jeffrey M. Cogen, George Ganzer, and Victor Behar, "Photochemistry of 1,5- Hexadien-3-ones: Wavelength-Dependent Selectivity in Intramolecular Enone-Olefin Photoaddtions," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 5817.
- William G. Dauben, Jeffrey M. Cogen, and Victor Behar, “Wavelength Dependent Photoisomerization of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexenones,” Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 1713.
- Victor Behar and Samuel J. Danishefsky, “Total Synthesis of the Novel Benzopentathiepin Varacinium Trifluoroacetate: The Viability of ‘Varacin Free Base’,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 7017.
- Victor Behar and Samuel J. Danishefsky, “A Highly Convergent Synthesis of the Lewisy Blood Group Determinant in Conjugatable Form,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1994, 33, 1468.
- Samuel J. Danishefsky, Victor Behar, John T. Randolph, and Kenneth O. Lloyd, “Application of the Glycal Assembly Method to the Concise Synthesis of Ley and Leb Blood Group Determinants and of H-Type I and H-Type II Oligosaccharides,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 5701.
- Thomas P. Thrash, Thomas D. Welton, and Victor Behar, “Synthesis of an elaborated heliquinomycin isocoumarin moiety,” Tetrahedron Lett., 2000, 41, 29.
- Jay P. Deville and Victor Behar, "Chelation-controlled selectivity in the clay catalyzed deprotection of phenolic methoxy methyl (MOM) ethers," J. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 4097.
- Chad J. Stearman and Victor Behar, "Screening chiral fluorinated binaphthyl ketone catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation," Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 1943.
- Regina L. Soucy, Denis Khozinov, and Victor Behar, "Remarkable diasteroselectivity in the addition of allylic and vinylic diorganozinc reagents to beta-(N,N-dialkylamino) aldehydes," J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 1947.
- Jay P. Deville and Victor Behar, "Tandem conjugate cyanide addition-Dieckmann condensation in the synthesis of the ABCD-ring system of lactonamycin," Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 1403.
- Joel L. Stevens, Thomas D. Welton, and Jay P. Deville “Regiocontrolled [3+2] quinone-nitrile oxide cycloaddition entry to type II polyketide building blocks” Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 8901.
- Denis Khozinov and Victor Behar,, “Extension of the Tandem Conjugate Addition-Dieckmann Condensation: Formal Synthesis of Tetracenomycin A2”, J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 1378.
- Aaron Martinez, Joel Stevens, and Victor Behar “Nucleophilic partners in the tandem conjugate addition-Dieckmann condensation reaction: 1. Synthesis of 1 2, 3-trisubstituted naphthalenes”, J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 991.
Patents
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U.S. Patent No. 6,645,935: Samuel J. Danishefsky, Victor Behar, and Kenneth O. Lloyd, “Synthesis of Glycoconjugates of the Ley epitope and their uses.”
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U.S. Patent No. 6,303,120: Samuel J. Danishefsky, Victor Behar, and Kenneth O. Lloyd, “Synthesis of Glycoconjugates of the Ley epitope and their uses.”
*Non-Attorney Professional
Education
- Columbia University, Ph.D., 1995
- Yale University, M.S., 1993
- University of California-Berkeley, B.S., 1990
