Meena is an intellectual property attorney whose practice is focused on patent litigation in Federal District Court, before the US International Trade Commission, and in arbitration, in matters involving patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.
Meena provides in-depth legal and technical analysis and trial experience in cases involving high tech technologies. Meena has experience in all phases of litigation, including pre-suit diligence, fact and expert discovery, Markman hearings, and trials, and frequently applies her technical expertise in cases requiring source code analysis. Meena also has experience evaluating patents for standard-essential patent pools and evaluating essentiality of patents relating to HEVC, audio codec, and 4G/LTE technology.
Meena brings to her role prior experience drafting and prosecuting US and international patents and responding to patent office actions, including overcoming Alice patent-eligibility rejections in software patent applications. Meena has experience in a broad range of technology areas, including adaptive bitrate streaming, semiconductors, AI and machine learning, malware detection, cybersecurity, networking hardware and software, wireless networks, data encryption, and computer programming. Meena has also, pro bono, assisted a client seeking asylum in the United States and in drafting a Board of Immigration Appeal Brief.
Prior to joining Mintz, Meena served as an assistant district attorney with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked on misdemeanor hearings and jury and bench trials, as well as felony cases, including grand jury presentations. Earlier, she was a patent agent in the New York office of a California-based global law firm and a technical advisor and patent agent at an international law firm based in New York.
In law school, Meena served as executive articles editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law as well as an intern with the Children’s Law Center in Brooklyn. While earning her bachelor’s degree, Meena was twice a summer science research fellow at Bryn Mawr College, where she studied recurrent artificial neural networks and developmental robotics, and drafted a code library for the use of a humanoid robot in a computer science course.
