Nike Victoria Agman

Associate

Nike Agman is an associate in the firm’s Hartford office in the Intellectual Property Group with a focus on patent litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Nike taught at Yale University in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.  As a graduate student and undergraduate, Nike conducted research in physical chemistry on the structure of cations and radicals using infrared and ultraviolet spectroscopy, and conducted research in biochemistry on phospholipid vesicles.

Bar & Court Admissions

• Connecticut
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, 2008 J.D.; Certificate in Intellectual Property, Certificate in Tax Law. Honors: CALI Awards in Patent Law and Procedure, Federal Income Tax, Tax Policy, and Lawyering Process
• Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1994 M. Phil. Slavic Linguistics, 1993 M.A. Slavic Linguistics
• University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1990, M.S. Chemistry
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1987 S.B. Chemistry

Publications

Nasal Assimilation in Polish: the Case of Nasal Vowels, in Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Productions (1997)

Sub-Doppler Direct Laser Absorption Spectroscopy in Fast Ion Beams: the Fluorine Hyperfine Structure of HF+, Journal of Chemical Physics 90:3898 (1989) (with J.V. Coe, J.C. Owrutsky, E.R. Keim, D.C. Hovde and R.J. Saykally)

Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Short-Chain Lecithin/Long-Chain Phospholipid Unilamellar Vesicles: Sensitivity of Phospholipases to Matrix Phase State, Biochemistry 26:7409 (1987) (with N.E. Gabriel and M.F. Roberts)

Professional Activities

• Connecticut Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Executive Committee 2009-present, Co-Chair Intellectual Property Section
• Hartford County Bar Association
• American Chemical Society