Friday, July 17, 2020

It's Peter Munson, Not Peter Zimmerman

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Peter R. Munson

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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)

He was making $1.4 million per year (and told his ex that it was only $700k per year)

From the book:

“Yeah," Evan says. “Dad started yelling about people at work that are driving him crazy, just complaining about everyone and everything."

He continues. “I went into his bedroom afterward to make sure he was okay and he was sitting at the edge of his bed not saying anything. All of a sudden, he just bends over and throws up. I don’t know what it could have been because he hadn’t eaten while we were there. But it was dark, almost black, and thick. And then he just threw a washcloth down over it. So I said, ‘Dad, I am calling an ambulance. I'm taking you to the hospital' and he started shouting at me. He said. ‘No! Leave me alone!’ and then he said, ‘You’re just like your mother. She's always nagging me to see a doctor and that’s what is making me sick.’ ”


It appears Peter was cooler than we'd like to believe, from reading the book. Consider:
To be precise, 

12781 Via Donada, Del Mar, Ca 92014-3716

Peter Reed Munson is 61 years old and lives in Del Mar, California. Peter was born in April 1964. Peter received a degree in j.d., from Unh School Of Law. Peter completed the degree in m.s., at Binghamton University. Additional education Peter has completed includes the B.s., From Cornell University, and Franklin Pierce Law Center. Peter has 14 different addresses, the most recent of which is in Del Mar, California. (Hey, that's a $4m house!)

And Eilene:


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