He works with clients in all phases of the intellectual property development cycle to ensure that strong protection is achieved. This includes working with clients to recognize protectable ideas, refining the ideas while identifying the foundational aspects to obtain the broadest possible protection, and providing counsel related to international and domestic intellectual property filing strategies that balances intellectual property protection with budgetary considerations.
Mr. Peterson has worked with clients across many technological fields developing intellectual property strategies designed to maximize value including biotechnology, medical devices, cleantech, computer software, electronics, consumer products, industrial equipment and construction. He has a degree in biochemistry and a successful career working as a scientist focusing on nucleic acid diagnostic assays.
He also works with a network of foreign intellectual property attorneys around the world to procure patent and trademark rights for clients abroad.
Mr. Peterson is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, admitted to practice law in the State of California and U.S. District Court, and a member of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Section of the San Diego County Bar Association and the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California.