Peter G. Pappas

Peter G. Pappas

Partner
Co-Global Head of IP
Atlanta, United States
+1 404 853 8064

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Pete serves as a co-head of the Eversheds Sutherland Global Intellectual Property Group. 

He counsels clients in a variety of global industries—including life sciences, energy, chemical, industrial manufacturing and fashion brand companies—on all aspects of product development and intellectual property protection, transactions, and controversies. With a degree in chemical engineering, Pete focuses on chemical and mechanical patent prosecution, federal trademark prosecution, patent and trademark litigation (including Hatch-Waxman) and contested proceedings such as Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs),  and cancellation and opposition proceedings, trade secrets, copyrights, transaction diligence, negotiation and drafting of IP terms in agreements such as merger and acquisition purchase agreements, product development agreements, license and supply agreements, and contract research agreements, and freedom to operate, validity and infringement opinions.

Pete has substantial experience in intellectual property matters concerning pharmaceuticals,  polymeric nonwoven products and manufacturing equipment, water treatment, electro-luminescence, petroleum products, renewable energy, ceramics, apparel and fashion brands, packaged beverage manufacturing, colloids, food chemistry, paper technology, flexible packaging, textiles, agricultural chemicals, printing, carbon black, polymer extrusion equipment, latex gloves, xerography, electro-chemistry, and other aspects of polymer technology. Pete is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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  • Represented Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Azurity Ireland Limited and QHP Capital in the acquisition of Covis Pharma Group S.a r.l.
  • Represented Angelini S.p.A. in multiple U.S. Hatch Waxman paragraph IV patent litigations concerning trazodone against various pharmaceutical companies and negotiated and drafted license and supply terms in settlement negotiations.
  • Represented Swiss Reinsurance in managed buy out sale of AccuQuote, Inc.
  • Provides global patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, enforcement, portfolio management, searches and opinions to a leading fashion apparel company.
  • Provides U.S. patent prosecution, enforcement, licensing, and freedom to operate opinions to leading non-woven product equipment manufacturer.
  • Represented IGM Financial, one of Canada's largest diversified wealth and asset management companies, in its purchase of an approximately 20.5 percent equity interest in Rockefeller Capital Management, for consideration of approximately $622 million.
  • Provides trademark prosecution, enforcement, portfolio management, searches and opinions to a leading packaged snack company.
  • Represented a Spanish-speaking client in the successful appeal of a denial of asylum before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Board of Immigration Appeals.
  • Assists a drilling equipment manufacturer in negotiating and preparing non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements to properly protect its trade secrets.
  • Assists a nonprofit research foundation in negotiating and preparing agreements for licensing and assigning copyrighted works.
  • Defended a leading non-woven product equipment manufacturer in a successful patent inter partes review and appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • Provided IP diligence and negotiation of IP terms in multiple US acquisitions for a European oilfield equipment manufacturer.
  • Represented Consolidated Edison Development Inc. in connection with its acquisition of a Texas solar project for $227 million from OCI Solar Power.
  • Represented Southwire in acquiring Sumner Manufacturing Company, Inc.
  • Key Legal Consideration for Spanish Biotech Companies Doing Business in the U.S., September 26, 2024
  • Intellectual property comparison: Europe, UK, and US, April 10, 2024
  • US-China decoupling: foreign investment, M&A and supply chain considerations for your business, November 11, 2020
  • COVID-19 impact on doing business in the US, April 24, 2020
  • Recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of intellectual property (2010-2025)
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rated by peers and judiciary
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of patents: prosecution (2017-2023, 2025) and patents: litigation (full coverage) (2023-2025)
  • Named to Best Lawyers in the areas of patent law (2012-2026) and trade secrets law (2023-2026)
  • Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® (2004, 2006-2024)
  • Honored with BTI Consulting Group’s Client Service Award for delivering unsurpassed client service (2014, 2016)
  • Named among the “Georgia Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine (2008, 2009)
  • Recipient of the Fellows Award from the University of Alabama Department of Chemical and Bioengineering (2007)
  • Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
  • Member, International Trademark Association
  • Former Member, Amicus Brief Committee, Intellectual Property Owners Association
  • Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Member, Intellectual Property Law Section, State Bar of Georgia
  • Former Executive Committee President, Lawyers Club of Atlanta
  • Member, Atlanta Bar Association
  • Former Board Member, Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers
  • Georgia
  • J.D., The University of Alabama School of Law
  • B.S.Ch.E., University of Alabama,

    Fellow, Chemical and Bioengineering Department

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Peter Pappas

Partner

Co-Global Head of IP

+1 404 853 8064
Peter Pappas

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Co-Global Head of IP

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