Peter Munson is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property, including strategic counseling, prosecution, litigation, licensing, and other transactions, as well as counseling on other intellectual property and business matters.

Peter provides comprehensive counseling to clients on intellectual property and related business matters. He has analyzed intellectual property portfolios and performed IP due diligence for both venture capital firms and businesses in a variety of investment environments, including mergers and acquisitions. He has written opinions, negotiated and drafted transactional documents, performed IP audits, and formulated strategies for, and carried out, company formations, structured spin-outs, license renegotiations and acquisitions, and out-licensing of intellectual property in such fields as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, immunology, molecular biology, proteomics, microarrays, and gene therapy.

Peter has litigated patent, trade-secret theft, trademark, and trade-dress disputes in a diverse range of technical areas, including pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, molecular biology, microarray, bone-substitute materials, DNA-sequencing instruments, and dental implants. He has prosecuted patent and trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including managing the national and international patent prosecution docket for multiple start-up and major San Diego pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies.

In addition to his legal career, Peter has worked as a chemist at Cytogen Corporation in New Jersey and at Agouron Pharmaceuticals (now Pfizer) in San Diego.