Megan Miller is an Intellectual Property Paralegal at Winthrop & Weinstine in Minneapolis. Miller is expected to graduate in 2021 and plans to focus her practice on international intellectual property (IP) filing strategy and enforcement, along with privacy law.
Miller has fourteen years of experience prosecuting patents, trademarks, and copyrights in the U.S. and worldwide. She has worked at both large and small boutique IP firms as well as a legal services corporation before joining a general practice firm. Her diverse work history has provided her with the opportunity to work with a large range of clients from FTSE 100 companies to international and national universities, start-up ventures, and solo inventors. Miller has focused on all aspects of worldwide IP prosecution, while also maintaining and developing internal policies and procedures, and educating clients and firm members on country law updates and foreign filing strategy.
“I’ve always known Mitchell Hamline as the law school to go to if you plan on practicing IP,” said Miller. “Mitchell Hamline provides the most significant amount of IP courses and experienced IP faculty to all enrollment options, including the blended-learning program. Mitchell Hamline is well-known throughout the Minnesota IP community as an IP lawyer’s sanctuary.”
Reflecting on her experience in the IP Institute, Miller said, “Professor Moy’s deep understanding of the changes that came along with the implementation of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2012 is wildly impressive. I have been working in IP since 2007, and no one else has ever explained to me what issues the AIA will cause in future litigation as well as he did.”
In Feb. 2021, Miller and Professor Jay Erstling co-authored What is a Trademark, Fourth Edition, published by ABA Book Publishing. “Professor Erstling is the most wonderful human you would ever be so lucky to meet, let alone have as a professor. He is extremely intelligent, wildly well-connected internationally, and yet also one of the most humble people I have ever known. I’m also not aware of any other school that has a former Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization as a faculty member, as Mitchell Hamline does,” said Miller. “Both Professors Moy and Erstling have taught me ample practical information that I will take with me into practice.”
As a final note for prospective students, Miller added, “I do not have a technical degree and will not be a patent prosecutor, which evidences that Mitchell Hamline’s IP courses are not just for engineers—the curriculum provides an outstanding foundation for all students interested in IP.”