Education

J.D. University of California, Davis, 1986

M.S. Oregon State University, Zoology, 1982

B.S., summa cum laude, Oregon State University, Biology, 1978

Bar Admissions

California

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Affiliations

State Bar of California, Anti-Trust and Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections

Sacramento County Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section

Northern California Super Lawyers, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009

Audrey A. Millemann

Contact information:

Shareholder

amillemann@weintraub.com

T: 916.558.6033

F: 916.446.1611

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Practice Areas

• Entertainment/New Media
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation

Audrey is a shareholder in the firm's Intellectual Property, Litigation and Entertainment groups. She is a litigator and a registered patent attorney.

Audrey advises clients on all issues of patent law, including ownership, patentability, infringement, and invalidity. She has prosecuted patents for chemical compositions, biologically active compounds, methods of detecting disease at the cellular and molecular levels, methods of screening for cancer cells, medical devices, biotechnology, computer software, business methods, and mechanical devices.

Audrey has over 20 years of experience as a business litigator. She has concentrated in intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, and trade secret matters. Her clients have included firms that produce chemicals, health and nutraceutical products, software, insurance products, and continuing education products. Audrey also has extensive experience in the areas of antitrust (Sherman Act, Robinson-Patman Act, Cartwright Act) and unfair competition (Lanham Act, Unfair Competition Act, Unfair Practices Act) in both federal and state courts. She has handled cases involving monopolization, price discrimination, tying, price fixing, below-cost pricing, and locality price discrimination.

Audrey was selected for inclusion in California SuperLawyers for 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Before joining the Weintraub law firm in 1990, Audrey practiced for four years in Los Angeles, focusing on litigation involving business and entertainment. In 1989, in a civil case in Los Angeles, Audrey obtained the first court order, in any California criminal or civil case, admitting evidence of DNA "fingerprinting."

Audrey's undergraduate and graduate degrees focused on cell and developmental biology and included extensive coursework in biochemistry and genetics. During and after graduate school, Audrey worked in the area of recombinant DNA technology.