PowerHouse Mediation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution (2024-present)

Mira Vats-Fournier Esq., MCIArb, joins PowerHouse as a distinguished International Arbitrator, Mediator, and Dispute Resolution Strategy Counsel with a focus on complex commercial, patent, trade secret, trademark, and technology disputes. Mira brings her multi-national and inter-cultural experience, creativity, and grit to craft lasting solutions for her clients. With AmLaw100 complex litigation experience in the US Federal Courts and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Mira effectively works to resolve disputes through strategic tailored approaches.

Vats-Fournier Chambers (2024-present)

Mira’s extensive experience includes litigation in the US Federal Courts and the USPTO, representing clients in high-stakes intellectual property and technology cases. Named by her peers as Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” and Top Attorney in IP Litigation, Mira is recognized for her strategic counsel and effective advocacy.

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP (formerly Briggs and Morgan, P.A.)  Associate, Intellectual Property Litigation (2018-2024)

Law Clerk (2017)

Represented clients in complex patent, trademark, copyright infringement, trade secrets misappropriation, and disputes across varied technologies, proprietary business methods, and related claims against domestic and international persons.

• Experienced in all stages of litigation including pre-suit investigation, injunctions, discovery strategy and analysis,drafting pre-trial dispositive and non-dispositive motions, infringement contentions, Markman briefs, Daubert briefs, mediations, arbitrations, motions in limine, post-trial motions, and appeal briefs
• Draft testimony outlines, prepare fact and expert witnesses for testimony at depositions and at trial
• Responsible for financial investigations and financial damages analyses, serve as main contact between client and financial damages experts, assist with expert reports, and manage all AEO data and information
• Manage technical experts, craft discovery requests and bases for comparative analyses, claims to be asserted
• Counsel clients regarding dispute resolution, mediation strategies and proposals, potential liability risk assessments for patent infringement and/or data privacy law violations (e.g., GDPR and CCPA), patent and trademark licensingoptions, contested trademarks, common law rights, trademark cancellation and opposition proceedings before the TTAB, and due diligence in M&A transactions
• Representative experience includes serving as second-chair counsel at infringement trial in federal court, drafting direct testimony and cross-examination outlines, managing trial exhibits and evidentiary issues, and arguing objections at sidebars during trial; drafting and editing iterations of multi-million dollar settlement agreements reached onthe eve of trial; and mediating trademark dispute resulting in withdrawal of trademark opposition proceeding before the TTAB