Van Ullen, Stephen J.

Peter is a trusted advisor to clients in a wide variety of technologies. His clients include multinational corporations, mid-sized companies, early-stage and venture-backed companies, as well as entrepreneurs and investors. He is a creative problem-solver and a facilitator of clients' business goals. Peter provides expert counsel in all areas of intellectual property (IP) and related transactions.

Peter has been involved in hundreds of due diligence investigations for acquisitions and divestitures of IP portfolios, involving new businesses to companies valued at more than $1 billion, and he has been the primary negotiator or lead counsel in dozens of licensing transactions. He has crafted a significant number of patentability and freedom-to-operate opinions, and has prosecuted many patents that have been successfully enforced in court and/or licensed. Peter also has provided creative trademark counsel resulting in unique registration and enforcement strategies.

Peter has extensive experience in the chemical process industries, water and wastewater treatment technologies, polymers, small particles, specialty metals and ceramics, medical devices, and mechanical and industrial designs. He is one of the country's leading attorneys on "clean" and "green" technologies. He has, for example, been involved in patent prosecution, clearance, diligence, transactions, and enforcement for more water and wastewater technologies than any other lawyer (or firm) over the past 15 years. This experience has made him a sought-after counsel by venture capital investors in these technologies, both nationally and internationally.