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Jon Baumgarten is an Intellectual Property Partner, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. He also is regularly available in the New York, California, Boston, Florida and European offices.

Widely recognized as one of the country's leading domestic and international intellectual property lawyers, with particular emphasis in copyright matters, 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, among others:

  • 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)

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.

 

Jon’s practice has an 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 U.S. Government in international copyright conferences.

In addition, 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 U.S. and abroad. 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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