Courtney is an intellectual property attorney whose practice focuses on patent litigation in federal district courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. She is also a key member of teams arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Courtney is regularly relied upon by trial team leaders for in-depth legal and economic analysis in matters involving global high-tech, biotech, and medical device companies.
Courtney plays an integral role at all stages of trial preparation. Her experience includes taking fact depositions; drafting and responding to pleadings and motions; and preparing witnesses and attorney teams for depositions. She develops and drafts fact and expert witness statements, motions and responses, pleadings, briefs, and legal memoranda.
In addition, Courtney prepares damages positions in federal district court cases and economic domestic industry positions unique to the ITC. She also researches and drafts appellate briefs and assists with preparation for oral argument before the Federal Circuit.
Courtney maintains an active pro bono practice, counseling and representing clients in matters involving domestic and sexual violence, immigration, and civil appeals. She also serves on the advisory committee formed by Mintz’s Managing Member to address issues related to the recruitment and retention of minority attorneys.
In conjunction with her role on the Intellectual Property Litigation recruiting committee, Courtney recruits and interviews diverse and intellectual property-focused summer associate and lateral candidates. She is active in the firm’s diversity and associate mentoring programs and works closely with summer and junior associates in the Intellectual Property Litigation section. Courtney is also active in MIATTY, the firm’s minority affinity group for attorneys and senior legal professionals of color, and Mintz’s Women’s Initiative, through which she mentors law students.
Courtney was selected to serve as Mintz’s 2020–2021 representative to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Pathfinder Program for high-potential, early-career attorneys.
Prior to joining Mintz, Courtney clerked for Associate Justice Geraldine Hines of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Associate Justice Vickie L. Henry of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. During law school, she served as a judicial intern to Judge William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and to Justice Hines, then an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
While attending New England Law, Courtney was a three-time recipient of the New England Scholar Award and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Law Review. At commencement, she received the Trustee Bradbury Gilbert Award for Excellence in Achievement.
Courtney is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Her related industries include technology. Her practices include Patent Litigation; International Trade Commission Section 337 matters; Federal District Court Patent Litigation; Strategic IP Monetization and Licensing; Appellate matters; and IPRs and other post-grant proceedings.
Courtney earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from New England Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington.
