Intellectual Property - Nancy Lord, Licensed M.D. and Attorney

Nancy Lord, MD maintains an active medical license in New York and her firm provides clients with full-service representation as it relates to all types of innovative medical products from nutritional supplements to medical devices. Dr. Lord has experience in product development, patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, regulatory compliance, consumer issues, first amendment and advertising issues. She has represented clients in medical product related matters before the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, ICANN (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution), NAAG (National Association of Attorney Generals), the Better Business Bureau, and State and Federal courts.

Since 1993, Dr. Lord (then Nancy Lord) has defended FDA criminal cases and she became well known in the innovative medical community for her successful defense of Tierra Marketing, Inc. in 1994, charged with 15 counts of FDCA, Customs and Trademark violations. She later served on the team as amicus attorney in the well known case of Durk Pearson et al., v. Shalala, et al., 164 F.3d 650 (DC Cir. 1999).

Intellectual Property

Dr. Lord is a Registered Patent Attorney experienced in preparing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications for health and medical products. She has worked as in house counsel, part-time, for two of the nation's most successful nutritional supplement companies on Intellectual Property and Regulatory matters.

In addition to prosecuting patents and trademarks, Dr. Lord assists inventors and corporations in developing licensing agreements with larger companies and meeting regulatory requirements.

Food and Drug Law

Dr. Lord offers quality and timely preparation of 510k FDA submissions for new medical devices, and New Dietary Ingredient submissions required under the DSHEA Act for dietary ingredients that were not in use prior to October 15, 1994. She assists in designing clinical trials to substantiate structure/function and health claims, and bioavailability studies for generic drug equivalents. Formerly Associate Director of Clinical Research at Abbott Laboratories, Dr. Lord supervised the clinical trials and prepared the New Drug Application for Abbott's ProSom, a benzodiazepine hypnotic. She is familiar with the requirements of informed consent, Institutional Review, and other regulatory requirements for clinical trials of new medical products.

Corporations & Small Business

Located in the rural town of Pahrump, Nevada, Dr. Lord enjoys using her experience as corporate counsel to assist other types of businesses with various issues as they grow. She represents clients in business litigation, resolves business disputes, drafts contracts, incorporates new Nevada businesses, and handles consumer and attorney general's complaints.

General Civil Litigation

Dr. Lord represents clients on a variety of civil matters. Her earliest local clients included a sharp-shooter who killed a predatory mountain lion only to have the pelt taken by the State; a couple who lost and recovered over $50,000 from a local con man; and several victims of a notorious Nye County dog catcher who is alleged to have stolen the very animals he was hired to protect.

Pahrump was developed to a large extent by Preferred Equities Corporation, which purchased large tracts of land and sold it mostly as 1.25 acre lots in various neighborhoods. The validity of the various restrictions that it attempted to impose on those properties has been the subject of much litigation in Pahrump. Dr. Lord was the first attorney to obtain an unequivocal District Court Order that restrictions that were not recorded were of no legal effect.

The Fifth Judicial District of Nevada, in Pahrump, offers faster and more predictable litigation than the crowded dockets of Las Vegas and Reno, and is appropriate in more cases than one might expect. Incorporation in Nevada is advantageous for many reasons, and is a popular choice for companies whose principal place of business is elsewhere. NRS § 13.040 provides that "if none of the defendants reside in the State . . . the [case] may be tried in any county in which the plaintiff may designate." This means that if the Bad Guy lists his principal place of business as Illinois, we can file in Pahrump and get a hearing date within weeks, a TRO where requirements are shown, and possibly even a trial date less than a year from filing. Proceedings happen when they are scheduled, and there are spacious and inexpensive hotels within a few miles of the courthouse. Dr. Lord represents plaintiffs who use this statute to avoid big city hassles and move their cases along expeditiously.

Criminal Law

From her earliest years in law, Dr. Lord successfully represented clients on Federal charges including violations of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act and controlled substances, customs, mail and telemarketing fraud violations. She has represented clients in the U.S. District Courts of Georgia, Florida, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota and State Courts in Georgia, Florida, California, Nevada, and Maine. While her practice now focusses in the areas discussed above, Dr. Lord selectively accepts pro bono cases to curtail government over-reaching and further the Libertarian principles that launched her legal career.

Dr. Lord is honored to represent Judy Osburn, charged with manufacture of marijuana by the federal government for the medicine she provided to the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, a city-run cooperative for medical marijuana patients suffering from AIDS, cancer and other serious conditions. Ms. Osburn received a downward departure under the lesser harms doctrine and was sentenced to probation, as the Court eloquently described LACRC as having had "a brief and shining moment" of transparency and rigorous compliance with Proposition 215. Osburn's appeal challenges the constitutionality of federal jurisdiction of the Controlled Substances Act where the manufacture of marijuana for medical purposes was legal under state law.

Nevada Restraining Orders

Nevada is a popular place to form a corporation, LLC, or LLP, and many companies whose principal place of business is elsewhere are Nevada entities. If you have a problem with a Nevada entity, you can avoid litigating over jurisdiction and get right to the merits by filing in Nevada. Check the Nevada Secretary of State's site to see where your Bad Guy is registered: http://secretaryofstate.biz/begin.asp

The Fifth Judicial District of Nevada, in Pahrump, offers faster and more predictable litigation than the crowded dockets of Las Vegas and Reno, and is appropriate in more cases than one might expect. NRS § 13.040 provides that "if none of the defendants reside in the State . . . the [case] may be tried in any county in which the plaintiff may designate." This means that if the Bad Guy lists his principal place of business as Illinois, we can file in Pahrump and get a hearing date within weeks, a TRO where requirements are shown, and possibly even a trial date less than a year from filing. Proceedings happen when they are scheduled, and there are spacious and inexpensive hotels within a few miles of the courthouse. Dr. Lord represents plaintiffs who use this statute to avoid big city hassles and move their cases along expeditiously.

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