D. Peter Harvey, Partner

Peter Harvey's practice emphasizes intellectual property and commercial litigation in U.S. federal courts. He also advises on intellectual property 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, motorcycles, music and video, paper products, publishing, and communications, including high-technology businesses headquartered on the West Coast.

Mr. Harvey's more significant cases include representing a famous Italian motor scooter manufacturer against a former 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 e-commerce web infrastructure firm against trademark infringement by a competitor (Inventa Corporation v. U.S. Web Corporation).

Mr. Harvey is active in the International Trademark Association (INTA). He is a member of INTA's Distinguished Panel of Neutrals, which offers alternative dispute resolution services in trademark-related matters. He has served as an INTA director, chaired several INTA committees and co-chaired INTA's 124th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in May, 2002. He is also a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and of the American Bar Association (ABA). He has chaired ABA Intellectual Property Law Section subcommittees on the federal trademark dilution law and the right of publicity. For the past five years, Mr. Harvey has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Mr. Harvey is a frequent speaker and widely-published author. His recent presentations include "MGM Studios v. Grokster: What Good Is That iPod?'" sponsored by the Bar Association of San Francisco's Intellectual Property Section, San Francisco, California, September, 2005; "Product Placement and Misplacement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," at the 127th INTA Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, May, 2005; and "Fair Use in Copyright, Publicity and Trademark Litigation," at the Law Education Institute, Aspen, Colorado, January, 2005. With David Bernstein, he co-authored "Ethics and Privilege in the Digital Age," which appeared in Volume 93 of The Trademark Reporter, December, 2003.

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.