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- of Counsel
- Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
Gary Peterson is a registered patent attorney. His practice includes all areas of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patents. With over 25 years of experience in intellectual property law, he has prosecuted, defended, tried and appealed cases involving all types of intellectual property rights. His extensive appellate practice has included all kinds of civil and criminal cases, with two appearances before the United States Supreme Court.
Gary has advised individuals and business clients in a wide variety of industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, contracting, oil and insurance.
Gary is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and a past president of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law section.
George has been a trial and appellate attorney since his graduation from the University of Oklahoma in 1971. His primary areas of practice include insurance defense and bad faith, products liability defense, architect/engineering malpractice and corporate negligence. He has lectured dozens of times for the Oklahoma Bar Association on bad faith insurance practices including property claims, uninsured motorist and health coverage as well as general negligence defense. Mr. Davis is AV Rated, a member of Super Lawyers and the Oklahoma and American Bar Associations.
Bob is an experienced trial attorney. His litigation practice includes product liability, personal injury, antitrust, environmental law, oil well failures, corporate takeovers, patent, trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret and restrictive employment agreements, and complex business litigation. Bob has considerable expertise in domestic and international manufacturer and distributor disputes, and has extensive experience in representing national self-insured clients in a wide range of product liability matters. He has completed more than 70 jury trials.
Prior to law school, Bob was a mechanical engineer for Sandia Corporation and later, the Charles Machine Works, Inc (manufacturers of Ditch Witch equipment) for 5 years while he attended law school at night. Bob believes strongly in working closely with clients and providing cost-effective results.
Bob has been admitted pro hac vice in the U.S. District Courts of the Central District of Iowa, the Western District of Washington, and the District of Montana, as well as the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego, North, and the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk.
In 1975, Bob founded the House Counsel Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Bob is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He also has been selected as an Oklahoma "Super Lawyer."
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