Before working at Milord Law Group, Jenna specialized in diverse legal fields, including immigration, civil law, and criminal law. As a Case Manager and Paralegal, she was an expert in managing heavy loads of cases, supporting numbers of attorneys, and even had opportunities to work on attorney’s duties. She is always dedicated, diligent, and a fast learner. As a result, she was promoted faster than her peers and has become a valuable asset to the company where most of the work revolved around her, and many colleagues and clients relied on her.
Money Laundering
Legal and regulatory compliance data as required for purposes such as know your client, anti-money laundering, and market abuse regulations requirements, or as part of our client onboarding process, which may include passport or other identification data, date of birth, home address, and other due diligence data.
Extortion
"Evict" Cybersquatters and Typosquatters. We have also successfully used the trademark laws to control cybersquatters, those who would use website domain names intended to confuse the public, and subsequently offer the site for sale to you, which amounts to extortion. Similarly, we may be able to prevent typosquatters from using a URL similar to your domain name but which contains a misspelling, for the same purpose of confusing the public or profiting from your marketing efforts. For these our clients rely on our extensive experience in ICANN arbitration proceedings.
Recruitment – Personal information about job applicants is collected and processed for purposes of screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for positions; record-keeping related to hiring processes; analyzing the hiring process and outcomes; and conducting background checks, where and to the extent permitted by applicable law, which may also be subject to relevant local recruitment privacy policy. If you are hired by the Firm, this data will be transferred to our employee record files for the purpose of your employment. This is necessary in order to take steps at the request of the job applicant in the context of recruitment prior to entering into a contract. In addition, job applicant data and legal and regulatory compliance data may be used as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements. Information Sharing
Business Formation
Emily Mifflin is an up-and-coming IP Paralegal, who is focused and determined on refining her knowledge of trademark law. Her areas of expertise are logo design, trademark prosecution, and post-registration management. She assists attorneys and clients in their pursuit to register trademarks both in the United States and internationally, with a special interest in the Asia-Pacific region. She also has experience in assisting attorneys and clients in business formation and corporate litigation.
Business Transactions
Milord realized immediately that even the most brilliant people often need help obtaining the right protection for their ideas and structuring resultant business transactions.
Trade Secrets
Inventory your valuable information. We will work with you to identify all of your business information that qualifies for trade secret protection and then provide you with the appropriate legal tools to protect your trade secrets. Agreements to Protect Your Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
Milord is experienced in pursuing intellectual property protection in the United States and internationally. He also serves as an expert witness in patent litigation matters handled by prominent law firms.
Unfair Competition
Both federal and state unfair competition laws can be used to prevent false advertising and unfair business acts that negatively impact your business, such as misleading statements, or Infringing on your trademarks or trade secrets. Unfair competition laws are also usually asserted in and supplement trademark infringement lawsuits. Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act is the Federal statute that protects against unfair competition and California Business and Professions Code S 17200 is the state law that protects consumers against any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising. The broad experience of our intellectual property attorneys can help navigate the complex laws that apply to unfair competition and determine how to pursue your matter and obtain relief.
Forge a shield with expertly crafted contracts. Your trade secrets can be protected by a variety of agreements, drafted with our years of experience. Through employment agreements and polices, consultant agreements, independent contractors agreements, non-disclosure agreements ("NDA") and manufacturing agreements, we protect and enforce our clients' rights. Copyright in Software