GORDON KLANCNIK returned to Nixon & Vanderhye in 2005. He has extensive experience counseling clients on various patent related issues (including rendering patentability, validity, and infringement opinions as well as performing due diligence for transactions involving intellectual property issues), preparing and prosecuting applications for patents, and litigating intellectual property matters. In his practice, Gordon works with numerous technologies, including those in the chemical, mechanical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and electrical arts.

Prior to joining the firm, Gordon clerked for the Honorable Randall R. Rader of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Along with Judge Rader and Professor Adelman, Gordon is a co author of Patent Law in a Nutshell.

He earned a J.D., with highest honors, from the George Washington University Law School and a B.S. in chemical engineering, cum laude, from Cornell University. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society.

Gordon is a member of the bars of Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.