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Clients turn to Nicholas T. Peters for sophisticated licensing negotiations, patent portfolio management, litigation support, and handling of complex patent procedures.
Nick has extensive experience in “atypical” practices at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including reissues, reexaminations, post-grant procedures, and oral argument before the appeal board. Nick also has helped clients with worldwide patent portfolio litigation management and licensing negotiations including those related to standard essential patents.
Nick’s clients range from individual inventors and small technology-based companies to large multinational corporations, who benefit from his background in physics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Their industries include wireless communication, magnetic storage media erasure, medical and imaging devices, microchip and semiconductor technology, mechanical water systems elements, software, and various e-commerce or Internet-based businesses.
Before attending law school, Nick worked with the Living State Physics Research Group at Vanderbilt University. There he helped design and run a type of electromagnetic field detector called a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQuID). This work was published in Science magazine and in Review of Scientific Instruments and mentioned in major news sources. It also led to Nick being named a co-inventor on U.S. Patent Number 7,002,341.
Nick is a member of Fitch Even's Executive Committee.
Conducts complex patent office procedures on behalf of clients, including reissue, reexamination, and post-issuance practices. Select cases:
Manages worldwide Standard Essential Patent licensing campaign relating to 3G and 4G wireless communication technologies.
Creates valuable patent assets for a variety of software startup companies.
Oversees U.S. patent prosecution for internationally based innovations by medical company focused on electrosurgery, vessel sealing, argon plasma coagulation, waterjet surgery, and cryosurgery.
Prepares and manages intellectual property for multinational company developing new communication bus technology.
Conducts U.S. patent prosecution together with various worldwide patent professionals for non-U.S.-based clientele.