Marc David Peters is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster. His practice is primarily focused on litigation involving electronics and computer-related technologies. Dr. Peters has litigated cases in multiple venues including Texas, Delaware, California, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. His cases have involved technologies such as optoelectronic transceivers, surgical lasers, semiconductor processing, synchronization software, notebook computers, modems, graphics accelerator semiconductors, video-on-demand servers, and network quality-of-service monitoring.

Dr. Peters received his J.D. with distinction from Stanford University in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. His research concerned experimental high-energy particle physics, and led to a dissertation entitled “A Measurement of B Meson Oscillations Using Inclusive Leptons in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV.” The research was conducted at the Fermi National Research Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the co-author of more than one hundred papers in the area of particle physics. Dr. Peters received his A.B. in Physics magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1990.

In the course of his studies, Dr. Peters gained significant experience in a wide range of areas and technologies, including silicon strip detectors, high-radiation environments, thick-film hybrid manufacturing, data mining and large dataset management, high-temperature superconductivity, micro-Kelvin environments, and various programming languages (including C++ and FORTRAN).

Dr. Peters is admitted to practice in the State of California and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Central District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Southern District of California, and the Eastern District of Texas.