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Portal reopens for Michigan homeowners seeking mortgage help

LANSING (AP) — An online application portal is back open for Michigan homeowners seeking help due to unemployment or another hardship.

The Michigan State Housing Development Authority says Step Forward Michigan recently reopened the portal, which had been closed to new applicants since Dec. 31. The effort is for aid through the Michigan Homeowner Assistance Nonprofit Housing Corp.

In the first three days since it reopened, the state says 425 applications were started.

Michigan now has $18.6 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Treasury under its Hardest Hit Fund that’s earmarked for reducing foreclosure. That’s part of $74.5 million in
funding that includes money for Detroit and Flint to combat blight.


Attorney to serve as panelist at exchange on Post-Grant Patent Challenges at the PTAB

Jon Beaupré, a shareholder in the Ann Arbor office of Brinks Gilson & Lione, will be a presenter in the Momentum IP Counsel Exchange on Post-Grant Patent Challenges at the PTAB on May 11 in San Jose, California.

Beaupré will serve as the moderator for a panel topic, “Building Your IP Litigation Dream Team – Tips for Selecting, Screening & Managing Outside Counsel to Oversee PTAB Proceedings.”  The panel will provide insight on how to:

• Screen counsel’s actual hands-on experience at the PTAB
• Weigh the pros and cons of a joint defense agreement in the PTAB context
• Evaluate a firm’s work product in this unique forum
• Remain in the driver’s seat and control your litigation strategy
• Oversee a tight litigation budget

At Brinks, Beaupré is co-chair of the Post-Grant Patent Group. His practice includes all areas of intellectual property litigation, including patent litigation, trademark and false advertising disputes, and trade secret and unfair competition litigation.  Beaupré also counsels clients on intellectual asset management and prepares agreements and licenses. He practices in a wide array of forums, including federal courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the International Trade Commission and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Detroit Mercy to hold commencement May 13

Commencement proceedings for the School of Law’s Class of 2016 will begin at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 13, in Calihan Hall on the McNichols Campus of the University of Detroit Mercy, 4001 West McNichols Road, Detroit.

The jubilee class of 1966 will lead the procession. Anthony A. Asher (’65) is the Commencement speaker, and his late brother, George J. Asher, will receive a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) posthumously.

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