Litigation Support
Bill Rosenblatt has served as an expert witness in copyright, patent, and other litigations for over fifteen years on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. He has authored dozens of expert reports, and he has testified in federal trials and before the Copyright Royalty Board and the International Trade Commission. For further details, please inquire.
- Served as a technical and market expert in copyright litigations and pre-litigation consulting engagements on behalf of copyright owners, online service providers, and consumer electronics companies.
- Served as a market and technology expert in music royalty rate setting proceedings in the U.S. and Canada.
- Served as a technical expert in patent litigations and post-grant proceedings regarding technologies related to digital media, software, and computer systems in the U.S. and Europe. Experienced in prior art search, infringement/non-infringement analysis, validity/invalidity analysis, discovery request drafting, claim construction, claim charting, source code examination, and technology tutorials.
Public Policy
- For WIPO’s Committee on Intellectual Property and Development, authored the whitepaper The Global Digital Music Landscape: An Overview of Distribution, Copyright, and Rights Administration for Music in the Digital Age.
- Consulted to HADOPI, an agency within the French Ministry of Culture, on workable approaches to legislative mandates for e-book interoperability.
- Served as Special Advisor to the European Commission, Media and Information Society Directorate, in connection with its initiative on Creative Content Online in Europe’s Single Market.
- For the Business Software Alliance and Alliance for Digital Progress, helped educate legislators in the U.S. and European Union on emerging digital media technologies related to copyright.
- Testified at Federal Trade Commission hearing on consumer disclosure of digital rights management features in consumer electronics and online services.
- Testified at the National Academies Workshop on The Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era.
- Served as advisor to the Section 108 Study Group, convened by the U.S. Library of Congress to recommend updates to copyright law for libraries and archives, on e-book technology and licensing practices.
- Provided input solicited by the U.S. Copyright Office in connection with its triennial rulemaking on the anti-circumvention provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Section 1201).
Investment Support
- For leading venture capital firms, investigated startup companies and delivered investment recommendations.
- Consulted to analysts at hedge funds, private equity firms, and other investment firms on strategic issues concerning companies in the digital media market.