Peter Brann

Peter handles corporate, intellectual property, and constitutional litigation. He has litigated patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, corporate, and constitutional cases in state and federal court in over 20 states and before state and federal agencies. He has represented over a dozen of the 100 largest internet retailers. He has tried to jury verdict as lead counsel several multi-million dollar corporate and intellectual property cases.

Peter is the former State Solicitor for the State of Maine and was responsible for all civil appeals for the State of Maine. In that capacity, he won the National Association of Attorneys General award for Best Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court as lead counsel in the leading federalism case of Alden v. Maine, which he also argued and won. He has acted as lead counsel in over 100 appeals for public and private party clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits, and state appellate courts in California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, and Tennessee. He has been lead counsel for numerous retailers and organizations in amicus curiae briefs submitted in major patent cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. He has taught for the past 15 years a class entitled The Role of the State Attorney General at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard law schools.