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Practice Focus
Peter Nieves is the head of the firm's Patents Group. He is a patent attorney whose practice focuses on many aspects of intellectual property, including domestic and foreign preparation and prosecution of patents, domestic and foreign preparation and prosecution of trademarks, and disputes concerning patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Peter regularly counsels clients and renders opinions concerning the patentability of ideas, infringement/non-infringement of patents, the validity/invalidity of patents, and the design of products and processes to avoid potential infringement assertions. He also renders opinions concerning trademarks.
Peter’s prosecution experience encompasses a wide range of electrical and electromechanical technologies, including for example: analog and digital electronics; analog and digital telecommunication systems and devices; application software; computer graphics and animation; computer processor and memory architectures; DSL technologies; InfiniBand architecture; integrated circuit design and fabrication; Internet technologies, including Web site interaction and use; multimedia transmission systems and methods, optical telecommunication systems and devices; power supplies; set-top servers and applications; signal processing; audio speaker technologies; and wireless communication systems and devices. Nieves prosecution experience also encompasses a wide range of mechanical technologies and business methods.Sample Matters
IP counsel to one of the top international designers and manufacturers of high performance audio systems.
Prevented patent litigation multiple times by successfully proving invalidity of patent being enforced.
Counsel to numerous start-ups and small businesses with respect to various intellectual property issues, including protection of technology with patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
Education
B.S.E.E., State University of New York at Buffalo
J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center
Memberships and Admissions
Peter is a member of the Intellectual Property Law section of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, the New Hampshire Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. He is licensed to practice in the state of Georgia and the state of New Hampshire, and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the state of Georgia and the state of New Hampshire, as well as the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia. In addition, Peter is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Community Involvement
Peter is a committee member of the MIT Enterprise Forum®, a Board Member of the Inventor's Association of New England, a Board Member of Natural Entrepreneur of New Hampshire and donates time to lecturing groups of inventors on intellectual property law. Peter is also an Adjunct Professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH, and he has assisted in teaching courses at the Tuck and Thayer schools at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. | 