MARC DAVID PETERS
PARTNER
mdpeters@turnerboyd.com
650.521.5935
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• Harvard College, A.B. Physics, magna cum laude
• University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Physics
• Stanford Law School, J.D., with distinction
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• State Bar of California
• United States Patent & Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court, California (all Districts)
• United States District Court, Texas (Eastern and Western Districts)
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Presentations
• Privilege, Primary Purpose, and Practicality, Turner Boyd’s Seventh Annual California MCLE Program (January 2023)
Publications
• Cyndi J. Claxton and Marc David Peters, Copyright Preemption, Complete Preemption, and Federal Jurisdiction, Daily Journal (2022)
Marc David Peters advocates for clients in technology and intellectual property litigation and counseling, primarily involving semiconductor, electronics, and computer-related technologies. He represents technology companies in patent, trade secret, copyright, antitrust, trademark, and commercial disputes in federal court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and arbitration. His cases have involved technologies such as semiconductor fabrication and devices, microprocessor designs, microfluidic devices, networking equipment, gallium-nitride-based LEDs and laser diodes, haptic feedback devices, medical devices, sonar, optoelectronic transceivers, and operating system, virtual machine, and synchronization software.
Before joining Turner Boyd Seraphine, Marc was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, where he practiced from 2007 to 2020. He has been listed in the Northern California “Super Lawyers” publication every year since 2012 and represented Immersion in Managing IP’s “Milestone Case of the Year” in 2017. Marc is a past President of the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court.
Marc is an author of the Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, published by the Federal Judicial Center and LexisNexis. The guide is a comprehensive overview of best practices and procedures in patent cases, and is provided to all federal district judges. Marc and his team received the President’s Pro Bono Service Award from the California State Bar for their work with the Children’s Advocacy Institute on behalf of California’s foster parents. After they obtained judgment against the state—and successfully defended it on appeal to the Ninth Circuit—California substantially increased its reimbursements to foster parents for the care they provide as required by federal law.
Marc is admitted to practice in California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to receiving his J.D. with distinction from Stanford University, Marc also holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. During his tenure at UC Berkeley, he was a member of the scientific team that discovered the top quark, and is a co-author of more than a hundred papers in refereed journals. While earning his doctorate, he received the UC Berkeley Faculty Associate Award for excellence in teaching, and authored the “Physics 111: Laboratory Electronics” course manual. Marc received his bachelor’s in physics (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.