Peter Leal is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property law and e-commerce law. Peter was previously a Partner at DLA Piper, and a Special Counsel at Cooley Godward Kronish. Prior to those positions, Peter was Corporate Counsel for the IBM Corporation responsible for all intellectual property for its General Products Division, and also engaged in drafting and negotiating various types of technology and patent license agreements for IBM with nationally known corporations of Japan. Peter represents clients in strategic patent counseling, patent infringement studies, patent validity studies, litigation support, evaluation of intellectual property portfolios, patent portfolio management, and patent preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also serves as a patent law expert witness in patent litigation. Peter also advises clients in intellectual property transactions including drafting and negotiating patent and software license agreements, technology development and manufacturing agreements, supply agreements, distribution agreements, and Internet based agreements. He also provides license agreement interpretation, royalty audits, open source software advice, and intellectual property due diligence for, and intellectual property agreements pertaining to, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of complex technologies.

Areas of Practice:

• Communication Networks
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Storage
• Computer Systems
• E-Commerce

Bar Admissions:

• California
• New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Services:

• Acquisitions

Education:

• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
  • JD
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  • MSEE
• Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  • BSEE