| Biography:
Jon Baumgarten is a Proskauer Rose LLP partner, resident in the firm's Washington,
D.C. office. (He is also 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.
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 named in such peer selections as the publications, Best Lawyers
in America, International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers
and of Business Lawyers, Chambers' Leading Business Lawyers and a
periodical article "Best Lawyers in Washington." Jon substantively
anchored the firm's trial and appellate teams in a number of successful, precedent-setting
intellectual property 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 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, licensing, litigation and related matters pertaining to the publishing,
computer, motion picture, television, music and recording, communications, arts
and Internet communities. From January 1976 through 1979, Jon served as General
Counsel of the United States Copyright Office. During this period, he was a
leading participant in the formulation of the new 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.
Jon 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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