PANTHER LAW
Legal Clinic of Naira Renault (Naira R. Matevosyan), MD, MSJ, PhD
A medical doctor, jurist, scientist, former Regional Exchange Scholar at GWU/American Council (2000), CIDA fellow (ON 2002, MB 2007), Hubert Humphrey & Fulbright Scholar at Emory/CDC (2005-2006), principal investigator & postdoc at BU (2008-2010), American-Austrian Foundation awardee - the Open Medical Institute of Salzburg (1998, 2000, 2007), George Soros (OSI) Foundation awardee (1998, 1999, 2000, 2007), FedBar member, partner with New European Surgical Academy (NESA)/Berlin (Germany), Thurgood Marshall moot court judge, author of 176 multi-genre bestselling books (pen names - Naira Matevosyan, Naira R. Matevosyan, Naira Roland Matevosyan, Naira R.M, Naira Renault, Naira Roland Renault), well-cited scholar (70+ papers with Springer Verlag and Willey), program manager and speaker (IPPF/Brussels/Belgium, AUDEM/Belgrade/Serbia, Albert Schweitzer Institute), trainee at the AKH/Vienna, CEU/Budapest, Debrecen MU, Charles University of Prague, McMaster (ON), graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law (NJ), singer, poet, pianist, composer, avid traveler, designer, content single mother (the highest award).
IN GENERAL:
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We provide with fast, yet in-depth assessment of a variety of legal, policy, and medical issues in the realm of biotechnology and dual-use research, corporate compliance, agency relationships (express agreements, implied authority, agency by estoppel, agency by ratification), odds in disarming a contract, as well as intellectual property breaches in the light of the most recent court decisions, black-letter rules or restatements in which the governing concepts are applied.
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IN PARTICULAR:
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(1) We assist you in recognizing the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statue, and False Claim Act implications in a particular case or scenario, and determining fair market valuations in deals with physicians who will be referring services. We invoke safe harbors to achieve your business goals or favorable adjudications.
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(2) We identify factors assessing strict liability, proximate and actual causation, assumptioms of risk, redressability, privity zone, or whether defendant complied with the duty and applicable standards to exercise reasonable care in medical malpractice or personal injury cases. We explain the role of custom in assessing reasonableness in particular case or scenario. We determine the burden/benefit calculus under the contributory and comparative fault systems (pure or modified).
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(3) By distinguishing between medical and decision causations we help you achieve outcome-oriented determination of defective or defensive informed consents, as well as injuries posed by the curbside - if applicable. We adduce the limits of your rights under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. §1395dd, including the 250-yard rule (42 CFR 489.24).
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(4) We pre-evaluate your invention for the five legal requirements of patentability under the 35 U.S.C. § § 101, 102, 103, 104, 112 and AIA provisions, we help establish the prior art (if such exists) as well as "corsage" and "face-stein" cases under the doctrine of equivalents, we draft preliminary instructions and memoranda, explain your defense plan in patent infringement or reverse engineering disputes. Lastly, we help you determine the capacity, distinctiveness, secondary meaning of your trademark, your rights and limits under the 15 U.S.C. § § 1052-1117 in trademark infringement, dilution, tarnishment, reverse passing - off and cyber-squatting disputes with the help of Abercrombie and Polaroid factors, your extraterritorial rights, as well as plausible remedies for parallel importation and gray market exhaustion.
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OUR TENET:
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After an extensive career in medical (surgical) practice and teaching, Naira Roland Matevosyan, M.D, Ph.D, M.S.J. graduated Seton Hall University School of Law (Newark, NJ), earning her Master of Science in Jurisprudence degree. She also holds Master of Public Health from Emory University School of Public Health (Atlanta, GA) and is certified in mental health research from Boston University (Boston, MA). A member of the Federal Bar Association (FBA), Dr. Matevosyan has served as a panel Judge in the 19th Thurgood Marshall memorial moot court held on Mar.30-April 01/ 2016 at District of Columbia Superior Court and Federal Court of Appeals, Washington, DC. Dr. Naira Matevosyan authors multiple publications in law, medicine, and psychology. See the "Gallery" page or visit the links below:
The GWU profile; Citation score at Google.Scholar; Linkedin; Springer Verlag; National Center for Biotechnology Information(PubMed).
Naira is a multiple and recurrent awardee of Fulbright Commission, CIDA, IPPF, NIH, NSF, NTF, American-Austrian Foundation, a twice selected U.S. Congressional fellow: RSEP (the American Council), and Hubert Humphrey Fellowship (the Carter Foundation). She has traveled in over 30 countries and her been trained in a few: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Hungary, Sweden, Swiss, the USA. See some of her awards or grants at: https://issuu.com/nairamatevosyan
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We trust, you appreciate that this business confers to the scope of a legal research assistant, with emphasis on the vigorous research and analytics. As such, we consult not counsel.
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OUR PROCESS:
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We thrive on responsibility and timing, and find no project too big or too small. While working in a speed of the panther, the quality of our product does not suffer.
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