Biography

TRUSTED ADVISOR

Peter is a patent attorney and founding partner of Sleman & Lund LLP.   Peter counsels and represents multinational corporations, small to mid-sized companies, early-stage and venture-backed companies, as well as inventors and entrepreneurs. He combines the tried-and-true methods of venerable New York City intellectual property boutiques with advances in data analytics.  The result is a sophisticated and efficient client-centered practice. 

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JACK OF MOST TRADES

Peter practices in a wide range of technologies including mechanical devices and electronic hardware and software.  Passionately curious, he is able to get up to speed quickly and ask the right questions.  Peter also stays abreast on changes in the law and publishes articles in a wide variety of IP publications.

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MASTER OF AT LEAST ONE

Peter has advised the medical device industry for over fifteen years.  He has represented several Fortune 500 companies in the medical device industry in connection with an array of innovations.  With a biomedical engineering background, Peter enjoys practicing at the intersection of law, engineering, and medicine.  He is the head of the firm's medical device practice, and the author of The Physician Inventor: The Doctor's Handbook to Patenting Medical Devices and Methods and numerous journal articles.  Peter also supports various accelerators, such MedTech Innovator, where he regularly serves as a judge.

 

UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MARKETS

Peter has represented a broad range of clients before the USPTO and has collaborated with associates from the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the Canadian Patent Office and others.  As the world has gotten smaller, it is not uncommon for a company to design a product in a first country, source the raw ingredients from a second country, manufacture the parts in a third country, assemble the product in a fourth country and sell the finished product in dozens of other countries.  Peter understands that today's global economy requires an approach to patenting that optimizes patent protection in this complex environment.

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Admissions

2008, New Jersey
2008, New York 
2010, United States Patent and Trademark Office

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Education

J.D., Seton Hall University, 2008 
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, with high honors, Rutgers University, 2005

Mathematics Minor