Peter A Emmi

Peter A Emmi

Reed Smith LLP

Peter A Emmi is a partner at Reed Smith LLP. He is a partner and leader in the Technology Transactions practice within Reed Smith's Global Corporate Group. Mr. Emmi has an electrical engineering and intellectual property background, and had worked in the computer science industry prior to his career in the legal services industry. He has extensive experience advising corporate clients regarding tech transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, and complex IP transactional matters, in each case in the intellectual property, information technology, cyber security and privacy practice areas. Mr. Emmi has provided counsel on numerous intellectual property portfolio and patent prosecution matters. He also has extensive experience litigating complex IP matters, with a focus on patent litigation involving technology in the electrical engineering arts. Mr. Emmi is a member of Reed Smith's Emerging Technologies team and a lead Tech Transactions partner in the science, engineering, and software space and handles matters all industries and technologies, including matters for clients in diverse technology fields such as computer software, microelectronics, IoT and other Internet technology, blockchain, cryptocurrency. He is also a member of On-Chain: Reed Smith's Crypto & Digital Assets Group which represents clients relating to Cryptocurrency and related mining matters as well as matters relating to other Digital Assets such as Tokens and Stable Coins, and related fractionalization, FinTech, Health / MedTech, InsurTech, information technology systems, telecommunications, media technology, virtual reality, solar, defense and aerospace technology, cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and analytics technology, and data protection. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Emmi gained more than four years of experience as a lead negotiator for IP licenses and agreements for IBM in the Intellectual Property & Licensing (IP&L) of IBM's Headquarters Division and more than 15 years of experience as an engineer and manager for IBM in the microelectronics division, during which time, he performed such tasks as card-level electronics design and testing, software development, and semiconductor research and development. He is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Emmi has appeared in federal and state courts across the country, including in precedent setting telecommunications and trade secret cases. In addition to being a registered patent attorney, he is an inventor on several patents, including U.S. Patent Nos. 6,488 778, 6,387,754, 6,278,147, 6,268,621, 6,178,660 and 6,758,223, and associated foreign counterparts. Mr. Emmi earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Pace Law School in 2004, and M.S. degree in 1990 in electrical engineering with a Certificate in Microelectronics Manufacturing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. degree in 1988 in electrical engineering with a minor in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Peter A Emmi's Courses

  • The White House National AI Framework: What It Means for Attorneys

    Generative AI

    FastTrack

    Credits Available
    Credit Status Total
    Alaska CLE Reciprocity 1.5 Total
    Alabama CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Arkansas CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Arizona CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    California CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Connecticut CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Florida CLE Approved 2 Total
    Georgia CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Hawaii CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Illinois CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Indiana CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Maine CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Missouri CLE Approved 1.8 Total
    Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Montana CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    North Carolina CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    New Hampshire CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    New Jersey CLE Approved 1.8 Total
    New Mexico CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Nevada CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    New York CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Ohio CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Oklahoma CLE Approved 2 Total
    Pennsylvania CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Tennessee CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Texas CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Virginia CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Vermont CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Washington CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    Wisconsin CLE Approved 1.5 Total
    West Virginia CLE Approved 1.8 Total
    OnDemand
    1.8 Missouri CLE