Bio

For over twenty-five years, Jamie Nafziger has helped clients grow their businesses by developing and enforcing stellar brands, launching cutting-edge online services and mobile apps, and advertising their products and services in compliance with privacy, trademark, and a host of online and advertising laws. Jamie is Chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Privacy and Social Media Practice Group. A technology lover, Jamie guides clients through complex and ever-changing privacy laws and internet regulations. She has been helping clients comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in terms of external policies/agreements, internal processes, and responding to data subject requests. She has extensive experience advising on website and mobile app terms of use and privacy policies and licensing agreements having drafted over 100 sets of website and mobile app policies. She also helps clients comply with email and text messaging laws and regulations and deal with internet fraud. She has an interest in facial recognition, other biometrics, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and new forms of identification and authentication and the privacy issues arising from them. As part of the firm's top-ranked trademark team, Jamie helps clients develop branding strategies and acquire and enforce U.S. and international rights in trademarks and copyrights. Jamie has prosecuted over 100 trademark oppositions with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has deep experience with domain names, successfully assisted several clients with applications to run .brand generic top level domain names, and is assisting several domain name registry operators with contracts, policy development, and compliance with ICANN rules. Jamie also develops defensive domain name strategies and handles domain name disputes. Jamie is a frequent author and national lecturer on privacy, mobile apps, trademark law, internet law, social networking, and domain names. She has served several terms on the Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association and is past Chair of the Computer and Technology Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. Jamie is a contributor to Dorsey’s critically-acclaimed IP Blog, TheTMCA.com, which focuses on legal developments in the world of TradeMarks, Copyrights, and Advertising. TheTMCA.com and the Firm’s Trademark Practice Group have been recognized in JD Supra’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards.