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Mr. Davis began his career as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). Following his time at the USPTO, he spent 20 years at two very large international law firms managing the patent portfolios of several Fortune 500 companies, as well as doing patent, trademark and copyright infringement cases in federal district courts across the U.S. Mr. Davis has a technical background in physics, mechanical engineering and biochemistry, and he has written and prosecuted patent applications and litigated patent infringement cases across a wide range of technologies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials science, industrial chemicals, medical devices, heavy machinery, network hardware, software, cyber solutions and household devices and appliances. He counsels his clients on patentability, patent infringement and validity, and he has assisted both licensors and licensees in the negotiation of complex patent license agreements, research and development agreements and supply and manufacturing agreements. With his background as a USPTO patent examiner, together with broad and deep experience in both patent litigation and patent prosecution, Mr. Davis specializes in providing practical and cost-effective strategic advice to clients for whom intellectual property is a critical part of their business model.
Co-Author: 4th Circuit Decisions in Intellectual Property, Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation, Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation of the ABA; 2007, 2008, 2009 Editions
Instructor: 2012 Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute, Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property, July 30-31, 2012
Presenter and Lecturer: Intensive Course in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing, American Conference Institute, Cambridge, MA; Atlanta, GA, 2008
Guest Lecturer: University of Virginia Darden School of Business E-Boot Camp, Charlottesville, VA, 2008, 2009, 2010
Guest Lecturer: Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property, Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute, 2009, 2010
On September 8, 2011, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) by margin of 89 to 9. The President will sign the bill into law within the next 10 days. The Leahy Smith America Invents Act is the result of more than ten years of attempts at patent reform and represents the most sweeping change of U.S. Patent laws in over 50 years. The law makes significant changes to a number of areas of the patent law, and brings the U.S.
Steve Tiller, Barry Neuman and Peter Davis have obtained a significant victory for our client Willowood, LLC, a generic crop protection company, that will have nationwide reverberations in the agrochemical industry. In an April 10 ruling, a federal district court in Greensboro, NC held that copyright laws do not apply to labels that accompany federally-approved pesticide products.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Managing Intellectual Property has given the firm’s Maryland Intellectual Property practice its highest rating and has singled out six partners for individual recognition in Maryland.
In their commentary, the editors noted that the firm is “highly respected” and that the IP lawyers in the group “handle a split of contentious and non-contentious matters crossing over patent trademark and copyright matters.”
