INNOVATION
The introduction of something new; a new idea, method, or device.
INNOVATION
The introduction of something new; a new idea, method, or device.
Our Founder
G. Peter Albert, Jr.
Peter has been practicing law for over 30 years at large general practice and intellectual property law firms in Chicago and San Diego. Martindale Hubble has given him a peer review rating of AV Preeminent 5.0 our of 5.0 (the highest rating possible) indicating that Peter's peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence in general ethical standards and legal ability. Over the course of his career, he has accumulated an impressive list of awards and recognition including:
- San Diego County Top Attorney (The Daily Transcript)
- San Diego Super Lawyer (Thomson Reuters)
- Top Lawyers in San Diego (San Diego Magazine)
Peter's practice encompasses all phases of international patent, trademark, and copyright litigation, prosecution, licencing, and intellectual property counseling. He has experience with a variety of electronic, mechanical, biomedical, and chemical technologies. Peter's vast experience with electronic and mechanical technologies includes wireless communications systems, video coding, compression, and processing, communications protocols including GSM, EDGE, UMTS technologies, and CDMA2000 technologies, ad-hoc networks, peer-to-peer and adaptive streaming, baseband processing, non-cellular wireless technologies including WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMax, NFC, GPS, and satellite communications, digital rights management and content licensing, ultra-fast laser applications, digital/analog circuits, broadband and embedded antennas, sensors and sensor networks, and computer hardware/software. His biomedical and chemical technologies experience includes biomedical and medical devices and diagnostic systems, bioinformatics, medical imaging, endoscopes, non-invasive fluid flow sensing, liquid metering/compensating drug delivery, external infusion devices, interferometic detection systems, surgical manipulators, instrument systems, surgical cutting devices, and superfluid (supercritical and subcritical) fluid extraction processes and apparatus, as well as various other biochemical, chemical, mechanical, and electrical separation, extraction, and purification systems and processes. Peter's acquired experience in this wide array of technologies allows him to understand innovations that combine multiple technical disciplines to efficiently and effectively assist his clients in protecting and enforcing the intellectual property rights in their technically complex research and development.
Peter is an active member of the intellectual property and technology law community. He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property law and an adjunct professor of various intellectual property and technology law courses at the University of San Diego Law School and Chicago Kent School of Law. He is also the author of the legal treatise Intellectual Property Law In Cyberspace (BNA Books) and a contributing author of the legal treatise Legal Issues in Electronic Commerce (Captus Press)
Peter also has experience in law office management. He was the chair of the San Diego/Del Mar Intellectual Property Law Department at Foley & Lardner and a member of the San Diego Office Operation Committee. He was also the managing partner of the San Diego office of the intellectual property law firm of Lyon & Lyon.
Prior to his legal career, Peter worked as a design engineer and design team leader for Reuters, Inc. At Reuters, Peter was responsible for the design and development of communications, information, and analytics systems for the financial services industry with a focus on derivatives. He and his team developed and built advanced systems capable of gathering and analyzing data on assets underlying various swap, futures, and options contracts to assist traders in making their trading decisions.
Peter received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a J.D. degree from The University of Illinois Chicago (John Marshall) School of Law.