Peter Breslauer

Peter Breslauer is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department. Peter focuses on complex commercial litigation, including the defense of class action, antitrust, products liability, and intellectual property cases. Peter has extensive experience in the defense of nationwide class action litigation. Many of these cases have involved federal and state-law antitrust claims for price-fixing or monopolization performance of computer operating systems, hardware application, and development software and online services brought against several major technology companies including Microsoft Corporation.

Peter represented defendants in five class actions in federal court in which the plaintiffs alleged the defendants issued credit and debit card receipts containing information prohibited by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, 15 U.S.C. §1681c(g). Peter has also defended class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, and has substantial experience in asserting claims under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030. In the latter cases, prompt relief was obtained, respectively, on claims of misuse of a client’s Internet domain name, and misappropriation of trade secrets by a departing employee of a client.

Peter’s practice also involves antitrust, intellectual property, and international trade counseling where he has advised clients on antitrust issues in software and hardware terms of service, minimum advertised pricing, copyright and trademark issues, the scope and enforceability of nondisclosure agreements, and International Trade Commission proceedings raising claims for antidumping and countervailing duties. He also has experience in two major asbestos bankruptcy cases in which the firm has acted as counsel to committees of asbestos personal injury claimants.

He also serves as an editor of the firm's Ahead of the Class blog, which focuses on issues related to class action defense, addressing current cases and decisions, trends, and strategies associated with class action law.

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