Audrey A. Millemann

Shareholder


Sacramento

916.558.6033

Audrey is a shareholder in the Firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property practice groups.

She is a litigator and a registered patent attorney.

Audrey has over 35 years of experience as a business litigator handling general business disputes.  Her areas of focus include intellectual property litigation (patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, and trade secret), unfair competition (Lanham Act, Unfair Competition Law, Unfair Practices Act), and antitrust (monopolization, price discrimination, tying, price-fixing, below-cost pricing, and secret rebates under the Sherman Act, Robinson-Patman Act, and Cartwright Act).  She has represented clients in federal and state courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. 

In addition to litigation, Audrey has obtained US and foreign patents and trademarks, and advises clients on all issues of intellectual property law (ownership, licensing, infringement, invalidity, and patentability). 

Audrey’s clients have included companies and individuals in the fields of biotechnology, industrial chemistry, medical devices, health and nutraceutical products, software, agriculture, food processing, farming, education, and insurance.

Before joining Weintraub Tobin, Audrey practiced in Los Angeles, focusing on litigation involving business and entertainment.  In a high-profile paternity 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.

State Bar of California, Antitrust and Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections
Member

Sacramento County Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
Member

Meritas, Sacramento
Member

Awards

AV® Preeminent™ Rating, Martindale-Hubbell®

Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2015-2022 – Intellectual Property, Litigation Intellectual Property

Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2015 – Antitrust

Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2017- Litigation-Patents

Sacramento Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2019 – Trade Secrets

Sacramento Business Journal’s Best of the Bar, 2014, 2016 & 2018-2019

Northern California Super Lawyer, 2004, 2007-2022

J.D., University of California, Davis, 1986

M.S., Oregon State University, 1982

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

Postponed: Don’t Let Your IP Float Away in the Cloud!

Summary of Program Join attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property Group (Jo Dale Carothers and Audrey Millemann) for this 1 hour MCLE program. Program Highlights Overview of Cloud Computing and Cloud StorageWho owns the information in the Cloud?How are Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Trade Secrets affected by the Cloud?How private…

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What is a Design Patent?

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Trade Secret or Patent?

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Is the PTAB Unconstitutionally Biased?

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