News & Press Releases

This article notes that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) upheld claims in a Straight Path IP Group patent matter. The coverage notes that the decision follows a rare reversal by the Federal Circuit that found the PTAB used an incorrect claim construction previously.

Matthew Howsare, Co-chair of Mintz’s Consumer Product Safety Practice, is featured in this article discussing Mintz’s commitment to their blogging efforts and how that not only is catching clients’ attention but also that of potential lateral hires such as himself.  

Mintz Members Abraham Reshtick, Dan Gaquin, and Jeff Moerdler authored a Law360 column discussing the IRS’s general legal advice memorandum addressing the impact of nonrecourse carve-out guarantees (or ‘bad boy’ guarantees) on nonrecourse real estate mortgage financing transactions.

Stephen Silveira, an ML Strategies’ Senior Vice President and former Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) official, provides commentary in this Boston Globe article on the MBTA’s contracting process for the Green Line may run into problems.