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Peter Y. Zhu

Peter Y. Zhu

Associate, Washington, D.C.
PHONE: 202-451-4917 FAX: 202-451-4901
Peter Y. Zhu’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related litigation, including patent litigation and trade secret litigation. 

Before joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Zhu was an intellectual property litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster LLP.  During law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Leo T. Sorokin on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for a full academic year.  He also served as a teaching assistant to Professor William W. Fisher and a research assistant to Professor Thomas J. Brennan.  Before law school, Mr. Zhu traded quantitative strategies on commodity derivatives at a hedge fund in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Zhu is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Prior Experience

  • Associate, Morrison & Foerster, 2019-2021
  • Summer Associate, Morrison & Foerster, 2017-2018
  • Derivatives Trader, Dean Capital Investments Management, 2013-2016

Clerk & Government Experience

  • Judicial Intern for the Hon. Leo T. Sorokin, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2017-2018

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Publications

  • Peter Y. Zhu, A Comparative Study of Claim Construction in the ITC, 337 Rep. (2017)

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2019
 
Duke University, B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering and B.S., Mathematics, 2013, magna cum laude, Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship

ADMISSIONS

2021, District of Columbia

2019, California

OFFICES