Mira Vats-Fournier

Mira is a litigator and ADR Neutral focusing on complex patent, trademark, trade secret, and technology disputes before the US Federal courts and the United States Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO). She brings her multi-national professional experience, creativity, and grit to craft lasting solutions for each client’s objectives, to counsel and advocate for her clients through the combination of approaches a particular goal may require. Mira is named by her peers as Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” in IP Litigation, appointed to the International Trademark Association’s (INTA’s) ADR Committee, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb).

Mira has presented seminars and CLEs on Biotechnology and Genomic Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China, Comparative Arbitration Practices in the US and the EU, the Trademark Modernization Act 2020, the Defend Trade Secrets Act, Cultural Factors in Mediation and Arbitration, and Public Policy Ramifications of Consumer Arbitration, and most recently, Arbitration A to Z: Things to Do and Not to Do at the Hearing.

After she entered law school as a Mitchell Fellow with a full Presidential Merit Scholarship, Mira won the Kirwin Prize for Representation and Ethics, was named to the Dean’s List, served as school ambassador, and was selected to compete in the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, where she was invited to return as an Arbitrator and continues to so serve. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from William Mitchell College of Law. Mira is also Certified in Global Arbitration Law and Practice by the Queen Mary University of London School of Law, London, UK, and in Advanced IP/Tech Mediation and Arbitration by Stanford Law School.

She is also a member of the Warren E. Burger Inn of Court (currently on hiatus due to a heavy trial calendar), the Federal Bar Association, the Union International des Avocats, the International Trademark Association, and the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC). Mira is involved in her local community as a tutor, mentor, Adjunct Professor of Law, and focuses on anti-corruption, rule of law, and aid efforts in her international professional community. Mira currently serves as Vice President of Aid Across Borders, a non-profit organization focused on aid and international civic cooperation among lawyers.

Loves: new neighborhoods, old theaters, unexpected books on the shelves, and imagination putting ideas into practice.

Languages:

Bilingual, Native Proficiency in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu

Advanced Proficiency in French

Intermediate Proficiency in Spanish

Presenter, “Arbitration A to Z:  Things to Do and Not To Do at the Hearing, 2023

Presenter, “Trademark Modernization Act,” Taft Webinar, 2021

Presenter, “The Defend Trade Secrets Act,” 2020

Presenter, “Comparative Arbitration Practices in the US and the EU,” 2019

Presenter, “Cultural Factors in Mediation and Arbitration,” 2019

Presenter, “Public Policy Ramifications of Consumer Arbitration,” 2018

Co-Author, “Don’t Delay! Addressing Damages Early in International Arbitration,” Transnational Dispute Management Journal, 2017

Presenter, Biotechnology and Genomic Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China, 2016