News & Press Releases

This feature story discusses on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) new final rule changing the claim construction standard for America Invents Act (AIA) reviews. Brad Scheller is among the intellectual property attorneys quoted providing commentary.

This feature article discusses the October 9th deadline for employers in New York to adopt sexual harassment prevention policies and provide them to workers. The article features commentary from employment lawyers including Brie Kluytenaar, an attorney in Mintz’s New York office.

This New York Times feature article looks at Shahed Hussain and his evolution throughout the years — from asylum-seeking immigrant to petty criminal to trusted ally of government prosecutors. Mr. Hussain is back in the news as his company is at the center of a deadly limousine highway crash outside Albany, NY. Jason P.W. Halperin, a Mintz Member and former federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, is referenced in the article – his quotes pulled from a jury address in a bomb-plot case in which Mr. Hussain acted as a corroborating witness.

This New York Law Journal feature article highlights the arrival of experience trademark strategist, Michael Graif. Michael, who previously led the intellectual property practice at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, joins the Mintz New York office as a Member.

Mintz Member and Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Joseph M. Miller co-authored an article published by The Lexis Practice Advisor Journal explaining how antitrust enforcers, primarily the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, analyze health-insurer mergers.

Mintz Counsel Elaine Panagakos co-authored an article published by Automotive News that examined who might face legal claims following autonomous vehicle incidents.