Peter R. Munson
Peter Munson is a partner in the San Diego office of
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on all
aspects of intellectual property, including strategic counseling,
prosecution, litigation, licensing, and other transactions, as well as
counseling on other intellectual property and business matters.
Peter provides comprehensive counseling to clients on intellectual
property and related business matters. He has analyzed intellectual
property portfolios and performed IP due diligence for both venture
capital firms and businesses in a variety of investment environments,
including mergers and acquisitions. He has written opinions, negotiated
and drafted transactional documents, performed IP audits, and formulated
strategies for, and carried out, company formations, structured
spin-outs, license renegotiations and acquisitions, and out-licensing of
intellectual property in such fields as pharmaceuticals, medical
devices, immunology, molecular biology, proteomics, microarrays, and
gene therapy.
Peter has litigated patent, trade-secret theft, trademark, and
trade-dress disputes in a diverse range of technical areas, including
pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, molecular biology, microarray,
bone-substitute materials, DNA-sequencing instruments, and dental
implants. He has prosecuted patent and trademark applications before the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including managing the national and
international patent prosecution docket for multiple start-up and major
San Diego pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies.
In addition to his legal career, Peter has worked as a chemist at
Cytogen Corporation in New Jersey and at Agouron Pharmaceuticals (now
Pfizer) in San Diego.
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| Areas of Practice | 1) Intellectual Property, 2) IP Litigation, 3) Global Generics, 4) IP Counseling & Patents and 5) Life Sciences |
| Law School | Franklin Pierce Law Center (J.D.,1997) |
| Admitted Year | 1989 |
| Education | Cornell University (B.S., 1986) |
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