Carter Eltzroth is at the forefront of legal issues relating to development and implementation of new media and other technologies. He advises on intellectual property, antitrust and other regulatory issues in standards development, licensing frameworks for essential patents, antipiracy measures and dispute resolution. His expertise is drawn from his experience in senior positions within, and representation of, broadcasters, technology providers and standards bodies.
Carter Eltzroth is managing director of Helikon.net, providing legal services to standards development organizations, and to licensors and implementers of standardized technologies. He is Legal Director of the DVB Project, the Geneva-based standards body setting technical standards for digital broadcasting and related fields. Among other SDOs, he has advised the IEEE and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel on their IPR policies and on innovative frameworks for licensing standard-essential patents (patent pools). He is an arbitrator with the World Intellectual Property Organization and ROSE Arbitration, and writes and speaks frequently on legal issues relating to standard-setting and intellectual property.
He is a member of the New York bar and a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Law School. At Columbia, he was Teaching Fellow and at its School of International Affairs, he was International Fellow. After law school, he clerked for Judge Walter Cummings on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Chicago). He is Senior Member of IEEE and has served as adjunct Professor of Law at American University, Washington.
Carter Eltzroth’s resume can be found here.
