| Biography:
Jon Baumgarten is a Proskauer Rose LLP partner, resident in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and regularly available in the Firm's offices in New York City, California, Boston, Florida and Europe. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor of the New York University Law Review, and former General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office.
Jon is widely recognized as one of the country's leading domestic and international intellectual property lawyers, with particular emphasis in copyright matters. He has been recognized in such peer selections as Best Lawyers in America, International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers and of Business Lawyers, Chambers' Leading Business Lawyers, Legal Times Leading Lawyers and Best Lawyers in Washington. Jon anchored the firm's trial and appellate teams in numerous, precedent-setting cases under the Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Amendments ("DMCA"), including Texaco (corporate photocopying); Kinkos (unauthorized coursepacks); Michigan Document Supply (same; en banc); Jurisline (database protection and contract preemption) Corely/Reimerdes (DVD decryption; DMCA); Silvers (en banc; standing); and others. Jon successfully argued for the Copyright Office and Government major cases of copyright doctrine (Eltra; Esquire); and has been instrumental in other such actions as Napster (file sharing), ICrave (cross border transmission) and Lexmark (DMCA). In recent years, Jon has also regularly counseled and led teams of businesspersons and technologists in the development and formulation of cross-industry technical standards and DRM solutions for content protection.
From his admission to the Bar in 1968 until January 1976, and since 1979, Jon has engaged in private practice, with emphasis on domestic and international copyright and on technology law. From January 1976 through 1979, Jon served as General Counsel of the United States Copyright Office. He was a leading participant in the formulation of the Copyright Act, was responsible for rulemaking and the thorough overhaul of Copyright Office regulations and practices under the new law, represented the Copyright Office before courts and Congressional committees, and represented the United States Government in international copyright conferences.
Jon is the author of numerous articles and a book on international copyright, and has lectured on copyright at numerous scholarly, professional and industry seminars and programs in the United States and abroad. He serves on several Bar Association committees on copyright and is past Chair of several of them. Jon has also served as a member of the National Advisory Committee to the United States Copyright Office, the International Copyright Panel of the Advisory Committee to the Department of State on International Intellectual Property, and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Adherence to the Berne Convention. He was a founding director of the American Copyright Council, the Computer Law Association, the D.C. Computer Law Forum and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.
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