Carey R. Ramos

 

New York Office
Tel: 212-849-7000
Fax: 212-849-7100
careyramos@quinnemanuel.com

Practice Areas
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Class Action Litigation
Domestic and International Arbitration & Mediation
Entertainment and Media Litigation
Intellectual Property Litigation

Education

 

Stanford Law School (J.D., 1979)
     Stanford Law Review:
           Note Editor

 

Yale College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1976)






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Biography

 

Carey Ramos is Partner  in the New York office.  He has a broad practice that concentrates on media and technology matters.  Mr. Ramos has represented prominent clients in widely publicized patent, copyright and trademark actions involving music, motion pictures, computer technology, telecommunications, and consumer electronics.  With extensive experience in matters concerning technology standards and patent pools, he serves as counsel to The DVD Forum(the international association of companies responsible for developing standard formats for DVD hardware and media), and the DVD6C and BD4C patent licensing organizations, which license DVD and Blu-ray patents worldwide.  Mr. Ramos advises clients on antitrust and competition law issues, with particular focus on the technology, media and entertainment industries, and has represented clients in litigation and before regulatory and enforcement authorities in the United States and Europe with respect to such matters.






Notable Representations

 

Won injunctive relief and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the music publishing industry in copyright infringement actions against Internet “file sharing” services Napster, Grokster, Kazaa, Morpheus and Aimster; Bertelsmann AG (for its investment in Napster); mp3.com; and UMG Recordings (the “Farmclub” case).

 

Successfully represented Baidu, Inc. in an action against domain registrar Register.com for breach of security resulting in a major cyber-attack on the baidu.com search engine service.

 

Represented The DVD Forum in winning dismissal of antitrust litigation with respect to its standard-setting activities.

 

Successfully represented the DVD6C Patent Licensing Group in numerous AAA/ICDR arbitrations against DVD hardware and disc manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia for breach of the DVD6C Patent License.

 

Won dismissal for The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation of actions disputing title in a famous Picasso Blue-Period painting, Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker), which subsequently sold at auction for $54 million.