Pete Pappas is a member of Sutherland’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, where he concentrates primarily in chemical patent prosecution and also handles mechanical patent prosecution, federal trademark prosecution, licensing and other intellectual property transactions, validity and infringement opinions, and litigation support.
He has substantial experience in prosecuting patents for packaged beverage manufacturing, colloids, food chemistry, renewable energy, polymeric nonwoven products and manufacturing equipment, paper technology, water treatment, flexible packaging, textiles, agricultural chemicals, printing, carbon black, polymer extrusion equipment, latex gloves, xerography, electro-chemistry, electro-luminescence, ceramics and other aspects of polymer technology.
Pete is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Pete’s extensive experience in the area of patent law includes:
- Serving as lead outside chemical patent counsel for CP Kelco, FAMECCANICA.DATA SpA and Printpack.
- Prosecuting a patent, which is the subject of recent successful enforcement in Kleen-Tex v. Mountville Mills.
- Authoring an amicus curiae brief with the Intellectual Property Owners Association on a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for Ferring B.V., et. al v. Meijer, Inc., et. al (2010).
- Authoring an amicus curiae brief with the IPO in the en banc rehearing of the Ariad v. Eli Lilly case by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals concerning the written description requirement for patents (2009).
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of intellectual property (2010, 2011, 2012)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of patent law (2012-2013)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® (2008-2012)
- Named among the “Georgia Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine (2008, 2009)
- Recipient of the Fellows Award from the University of Alabama Department of Chemical and Bioengineering (2007)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, U.S. Patent Office Practice Committee, Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Member, Licensing Executives Society
- Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Member, Intellectual Property Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
- Former Executive Committee President, Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Former Board Member, Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Co-author, “Forgotten Gems: How Successful Outlicensing Strategies Maximize the Value of Patent Portfolios,” Partnering Perspectives (Summer 2010)
- Co-author, “Upcoming Changes to European Patent Examination Procedures,” Patent Strategy & Management (August 2009)
- Speaker, “IP Diligence and Negotiation of IP Terms in Mergers and Acquisitions,” IP Knowledge Sharing Seminar (May 16, 2013)
- Speaker, “Due Diligence and IP Issues in Business Transactions: The Role of IP Counsel in Structuring Business Transactions,” ACC Georgia Value Challenge (April 25, 2013)
- Speaker, Webinar: “Patents and the Written Description Requirement: Meeting Section 112 Disclosure Obligations After Ariad v. Lilly” (June 10, 2010)
- Speaker, “The Implications of Ariad in the Predictable and Unpredictable Arts,” 6th Annual IP Hot Topics Luncheon (April 28, 2010)
- Speaker, IPO Webinar: “Ariad v. Lilly: What Are The Lessons?” (April 6, 2010)
- Speaker, “Compact Prosecution,” 20th Annual Conference on USPTO Law and Practice (December 7, 2009)
- Panelist, “Patent Prosecution Hot Issues,” 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute (November 11-15, 2009)
© 2013 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
