Nadja Baer

Senior Associate

Email: nbaer@fredlaw.com
Office: 612.492.7276
Assistant: Rebecca Gin, 612.492.7810

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PRIMARY SERVICES

Technology & Data
Artificial Intelligence
Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Intellectual Property

Government Contracts & Grants
Mergers & Acquisitions
Life Sciences

“Every problem has more than one solution. The art of what I do is in collaborating with clients to find the solution that makes sense for them.”

Overview

With ten years of business intelligence experience, Nadja is uniquely suited to aligning practical legal advice on a variety of intellectual property, licensing and information privacy matters to her clients’ needs.

Nadja provides legal counsel in a variety of intellectual property, software and information protection topics. She collaborates with clients to generate creative and cost-effective answers to legal questions. Nadja works closely with her clients, drawing from their expertise in their respective industries to provide a thoughtful legal perspective on the transaction at hand.

Prior to joining Fredrikson, Nadja worked in business intelligence, providing data-driven reporting and analysis of operational and financial data to health care, railway maintenance and financial analyst teams. Having coached end users through multiple transitions in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software modules and customized applications, she has a solid grasp of both the legal and the operational concerns presented by the adoption and rollout of new technology products and services.

Experience

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Draft and negotiate agreements for the integration of both on-premises and hosted instances of medical imaging and diagnostics software for value-added integration or bundling with third-party equipment and software.
Negotiated large scale software and software-as-a-service licenses and associated implementation services for global beverage company.
Represented global medical device manufacturer in negotiation of a data sharing program with two manufacturers of health and fitness trackers that sync with smartphone apps via Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology.
Represented developer in negotiations with private university in a collaborative research and development agreement with license to commercialize resulting software application.
Negotiate enterprise software and software-as-a-service agreements for leading North American distributor of process materials and production supplies.
Analysis of open source compliance obligations for a modified L-GPL library incorporated into a consumer product capable of transmitting data to SaaS offering hosted by a health technology developer.
Advised consumer product technology developer on specific questions regarding permissibility of disabling a product’s connection to SaaS offerings following customer modification of open source components.
Advise developer of healthcare instrument reprocessing equipment regarding compliance obligations for OSS components distributed in equipment under restrictive licenses, including GPL and L-GPL, based on the character of use and modification of each component.

Articles & Presentations

Question of the Day: Data Security for a Remote Workforce

May 20, 2020

By Sten-Erik Hoidal and Nadja Baer

What should companies do to mitigate the security risks of a remote workforce?

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“All That IT Gibberish” – Part 2: Confidentiality and Data Security

March 2, 2020

By Caitlin B. Houlton Kuntz and Nadja Baer

Part 1 of this article reviewed overlooked information technology and intellectual property provisions in bank vendor agreements. Part 2 focuses on the “big cheese” of any bank contract – confidentiality and data security.

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“All That IT Gibberish” – Part 1: Frequently Overlooked Technology Provisions in Vendor Agreements and Why They Matter

December 3, 2019

By Caitlin B. Houlton Kuntz and Nadja Baer

There is no doubt that partnerships with software vendors make fast, customer-friendly banking possible, but they also expose banks to a whole new world of risk and liability.

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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Co-presenter, “The Rising Tide of Individual Privacy Rights: What does it mean for Minnesota businesses?,” Association of Corporate Counsel Minnesota Lunch & Learn, January 17, 2019
“Superbugs v. Wonder Drugs, FDA Guidance for Industry #213’s Negative Impact to Small Producers,” Minnesota State Bar Association, 2014
“European Trademark Strategy Considerations for U.S. Small and Medium Sizes Entities After IP TRANSLATOR and ONEL,” 5 Cybaris, An Intellectual Property Law Review 149, 2014
“Setting a Conditional Precedent: Appraisal as a Condition Precedent in Insurance Litigation,” 41 William Mitchell Law Review 282, 2014
The U.S. Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, Round Table Companies, 2012

Honors & Education

EDUCATION

Mitchell Hamline School of Law, J.D., 2016, summa cum laude
University of Minnesota, B.A., 2005, with honors

BAR ADMISSIONS

Minnesota, 2016

LANGUAGES

German

HONORS

Minnesota State Bar Association, North Star Lawyer, 2017-2018
CALI Awards (Highest Score), Contracts I 2012; Contracts II 2013; Torts II 2013; Trademarks 2013; Income Tax 2015; Copyright Law 2015

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Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editor, William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 41
Notes & Comments Editor, Cybaris, I.P. Law Review, Vol. 6