A team of attorneys in Mintz’s renowned Patent Litigation Practice, led by Intellectual Property Division Chair Michael Renaud, was recognized as a ‘Litigator of the Week Runner-Up’ by The Am Law Litigation Daily for securing a significant defense victory for Juul Labs at the US International Trade Commission. The article highlights that the “full commission affirmed an administrative law judge’s decision finding that Juul didn’t infringe upon patents held by Altria’s NJOY covering certain vaporizer and cartridge technology, preventing any potential exclusion order.”

Mintz has once again been recognized as one of the most active and high-performing International Trade Commission (ITC) law firms in the Patexia 2025 ITC Intelligence Report. 

The Mintz IP litigation team recently secured a successful outcome for client Recycle Track Systems (RTS). RTS provides waste management brokerage services that optimize trash pickup schedules, reduce waste, and enhance waste diversion for large corporations and municipalities. RTS provides this solution through a combination of proprietary software and hardware technology—namely, its Pello product.  RoadRunner Recycling, a former component supplier and partner of RTS, filed a trade secret suit against RTS over its Pello sensor technology. Specifically, RoadRunner sued RTS in the Northern District of California for trade misappropriation under the California Uniform Trade Secret Act and Defend Trade Secret Act and included in its complaint a number of breach of contract allegations as well.  

Mintz Member and Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Division Michael Renaud and Associate James Thomson were quoted in an article published by IPWatchdog discussing the recently released text of the “Restoring America Invents Act”, which would essentially end discretionary denial practice under precedential Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cases and limit denial to petitions where “the same or substantially the same prior art or arguments previously were presented to the Office,” among other changes.