Nana focuses her practice on patent litigation, and handles cases at the International Trade Commission, in federal district courts, and in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has litigated matters involving high tech, biologic, and chemical innovations, including Hatch-Waxman cases.
Nana serves as a key member of case teams at all stages of litigation, including as primary technical associate. In this capacity, she collaborates in the day-to-day with expert witnesses, and is involved in the development of infringement/non-infringement and validity/invalidity theories. She also handles domestic industry economic analysis in Section 337 cases. She routinely has a lead role in pre-suit diligence, fact and expert discovery, claim construction, preparing fact witnesses and expert witnesses for deposition, motion practice, trial preparation, and post-trial briefing.
Prior to joining Mintz, Nana served as a judicial law clerk to the now-retired Hon. Andrew R. Grainger of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
While earning her law degree, Nana served as a judicial intern to the Hon. Norman H. Stahl, a Senior Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and was a legal intern with Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Unit. In law school, Nana was a senior staff editor of the Northeastern University Law Journal.
Prior to law school, Nana spent several years conducting bacterial immunology R&D at the Cambridge, Massachusetts location of a global company that specializes in the development of new vaccines.
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