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Stephen L. Peterson
Partner
Stephen Peterson has extensive experience in the preparation, prosecution, and litigation of utility and design patents. In addition to patent-based litigation, he has litigated a number of trade secret actions. He has also served as lead counsel in litigation in state courts and U.S. district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
With a background in material science and metallurgical engineering, Mr. Peterson has supervised and trained associates in patent practice relating to those areas of technology. He frequently lectures on a variety of intellectual property topics, including practice before the ITC, enforcement of design patents, and the prosecution of materials and metallurgical-based patent applications. He has published articles on patent damages, patent prosecution, and the effect of nuclear radiation on structural and cladding materials.
Highlights
- Represented Australian syndicate that won the America’s Cup in 1983 in patent and trade secret matters, protecting the famous “winged keel.”
- Co-counsel in several ITC 337 investigations including In re certain floppy disc drive head assemblies and In re certain non-contacting tonometers.
- Lead counsel in numerous litigated matters for startup companies with limited budgets including state trade secret cases, federal design patent litigation and utility patent litigation.
- Created patent portfolios of technology related companies such as SinterFire, Force Protection, Seldon Industries, and Allomet Corporation.
- Created patent portfolios in the areas of armor, ballistics, powder metallurgy, material science, nanotechnology, firearms, rapid solidification techniques, high performance magnetic materials, composites, and high performance ceramics.
- Acted as a special master in connection with a materials interference, conducting an evidentiary hearing, deciding evidentiary motions, and writing a dispositive decision on the matter.
- Active in firm management and served previously as the group practice leader for the chemical and metallurgical practice group.
- Former research metallurgist for the Battelle Memorial Institute, where he conducted research in the areas of mechanical metallurgy, remote testing of nuclear structural materials, and fracture mechanics.
- Formerly worked in the patent department of Battelle, where he received his initial experience writing and prosecuting metallurgical patent applications in the area of rapid solidification techniques and powder metallurgy.
Professional Activities
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Bar Association of the District of Columbia (chairman, Patent Trademark and Copyright Section, 1986-1987)
- Bar Association of the District of Columbia (council member, 1982-1985; chairman, 1986-1987; Board of Directors, 1987-1988)
- American Bar Association
- Federal Circuit Bar Association (chairman, Meetings and Programs, 1987-1992; member, Continuing Legal Education, 1992-1994; Board of Directors, 1994-1997; president, 2003-2004; chairman, Scholarship Committee, 2004-2007)
- International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court
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