Skip to main content

Stephen Chen

Associate

[email protected]

+1.617.239.8209

Share:

Stephen is an intellectual property attorney whose practice is focused on patent litigation. He works with clients in a wide variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, and health care. Stephen was a Summer Associate at Mintz in 2022.

While earning his JD, Stephen served as an intellectual property intern in the MIT Technology Licensing Office, where he prepared market and technology briefs based on extensive reviews of scientific documentation as well as patent applications and disclosures. He also refined the office’s forecasting metrics for potential patent applications in various fields of study.

During his graduate and undergraduate studies in the industrial engineering field, Stephen worked and served as a volunteer on engineering projects involving manufacturing and health care facilities.

viewpoints

He Got the MrBeast Blueprint… and a Trade Secret Lawsuit

April 22, 2025 | Blog | By Brad M Scheller, Stephen Chen

A former IT contractor turned full-time employee at MrBeast YouTube LLC (“Beast”) — the content machine built by digital juggernaut, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast is accused of swiping thousands of confidential files, including trade secrets detailing how Donaldson and his team develops its uniquely successful videos.

Read more

How Your Trade Secret Could Help to Defend Against Claims of Patent Infringement

February 1, 2024 | Blog | By Adam Samansky, Peter Cuomo, Nicholas Armington, Stephen Chen

Read more
Read less

News & Press

Press Release Thumbnail Mintz

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.  

Read less