D. Peter Harvey, Partner

Peter Harvey is a founding partner of Harvey Siskind LLP in San Francisco. His practice emphasizes trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secrets, and unfair competition litigation in U.S. federal courts. He also advises on IP rights clearance, registration and management. He has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries, including athletic footwear, banking, computer hardware and software, food, wine, motor vehicles, music and video, paper products, semiconductors, publishing, and communications, including high-technology businesses headquartered on the West Coast.

Mr. Harvey's more significant cases include representing an Italian motor scooter manufacturer against a former Indian licensee selling infringing copies of the scooter (Piaggio & C.S.p.A. v. Bajaj Auto, Ltd.); securing a defense verdict following a jury trial against a Canadian creator of classical music products for children, and its U.S.-based distributor, in a trademark infringement action (Mavrides v. Hammond); defending a trademark infringement action brought by Jacques Cousteau and The Cousteau Society against Mr. Cousteau's son arising out of the latter's use of the Cousteau name in connection with a luxury eco-resort in the Fiji Islands (The Cousteau Society v. Post Ranch); and securing an injunction on behalf of an internet infrastructure firm against trademark infringement by a competitor (Inventa Corporation v. U.S. Web Corporation).

Mr. Harvey has been listed for many years in Who's Who Legal as an internationally-recognized expert in trademark law and litigation and is honored among Northern California Superlawyers in 2008. He is active in the International Trademark Association (INTA). He serves on INTA's Distinguished Panel of Neutrals, which offers alternative dispute resolution services in intellectual property related matters. He was an INTA board member in 1994-1996, has chaired several INTA committees, including the International, Forums, Meetings and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees, and is currently serving as Counsel to INTA. He is a member of the American Bar Association and has chaired its Intellectual Property Law Section subcommittees on trademark dilution and the right of publicity. Since 2001, Mr. Harvey has taught Entertainment and Media Law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Mr. Harvey is a frequent speaker and widely-published author. His most recent presentations include "Order in the Court: Trademark Litigation Strategies and Issues," at the Law Education Institute, Vail, Colorado, January, 2009; "Trademark Ethics: Prosecution, Policing, Pretexting and Foreign Practice," at the AIPPI Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, September, 2008; "Undressing Trade Dress, 2008," at INTA's Advanced Trademark Symposium, Grapevine, Texas, March, 2008; and "Trademarks, Celebrities, and the Good Deed: Using Celebrity Branding for the Public Good," at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August, 2007.

Mr. Harvey graduated magna cum laude in economics and with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and received his law degree from Yale Law School. He has practiced law in San Francisco since 1972.