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Background
Peter Peng Zhou is a chief patent agent in the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. Dr. Zhou counsels clients in intellectual property law, particularly in U.S. and international patent prosecution. His current practice focuses on patent prosecution in the areas of biomedical engineering, medical physics and devices, physics, nanotechnologies, material science, telecommunications, fiber optics, photonics and electronics, quantum communications and computations, optical, mechanical and electronic devices, semiconductors, and software.
Dr. Zhou has prepared and prosecuted several hundreds of U.S. and international patent applications in a variety of areas, including nanotechnologies, material science, biomedical engineering, medical physics and devices, telecommunications, laser physics, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), light emitting diodes (LEDs), semiconductors, optical, mechanical and electronic devices, and software.
Dr. Zhou has had more than 10 years of academic research and industrial R&D experience prior to his legal career. He has most recently worked in Movaz Networks, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, as a Senior Optical Engineer, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to his work in Georgia, Dr. Zhou was with The Queen’s University of Belfast in the United Kingdom, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, and with The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, as a Research Scientist, specializing in laser physics, photonics and quantum electronics, fiber optics, optical networking, quantum computer, quantum communications, modeling of complex systems, computer-aided measurements and automations, data acquisition and signal conditioning, and micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS). He has published more than 80 research articles in Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, and other world leading academic research journals. Additionally, Dr. Zhou has also acted as referee for several world leading academic research journals in physics and optics.
Honors & Affiliations
Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
Institute of Physics (UK Physical Society)
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