OF SPECIAL INTEREST
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> Special thanks to our latest sponors!

> BCLT has a co-sponsored journal on SSRN: Information Privacy Law!


The Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) will hold their 2009 congress in Berkeley, CA on July 9-10, 2009. The event is being organized in conjunction with the BCLT.

The SERCIAC website is here.

The preliminary program can be downloaded here.
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Tech Policy Summit

BCLT's Executive Director Robert Barr has been named one of Intellectual Asset Management's IAM 250 -- a directory of the world's leading IP strategists.

IAM describes the directory as listing "those individuals who offer world-class services relating to the development and implementation of strategies which enable IP owners to maximise the value of their rights portfolios."

Click here for the website.
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Tech Policy Summit

The Federal Trade Commission held its final two days of hearings in a series exploring the evolving market for intellectual property on May 4-5, 2009, in cooperation with BCLT. The hearings explored how markets for patents and technology operate in different industries, whether those markets operate efficiently, and how patent policy might be adjusted to better promote innovation and competition. The hearings were part of an ongoing series examining changes in patent law, patent-related business models, and new learning about the patent system since the October 2003 FTC report on promoting innovation.

An article about the hearings is available here.

An audio recording of the entire two days is archived here.

UC Berkeley Law & Technology eNewsletter

The October 2008 ENews letter can be read here.
It focuses on current faculty research, BCLT's Fellows, upcoming events, and Entrpreneurship.

The first issue on Copyright is archived here.

The second issue on Privacy research is also available.

To subscribe to future editions click the lower, right-hand button on this page.
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Latest BCLT Faculty Research

Amy Kapczynski
The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property Law, 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 262 (2008).

Peter S. Menell
Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (with L. Pasahow, J. Pooley, and M. Powers), Federal Judicial Center (forthcoming 2008).

Robert Merges
An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards (with J. Kuhn), California Law Review (forthcoming 2008).

Deirdre Mulligan
Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport (with M. Meingast, and J. King), In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID (March 2007).

Pamela Samuelson
Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?, 94 Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).

Paul Schwartz
Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Reform, and the Lessons of Public Liberty: A Comment on Holmes' Jorde Lecture, 97 California Law Review 407 (2009).

Howard Shelanski
Merger Analysis and the Treatment of Uncertainty: Should we Expect Better? (with M. Katz), Antitrust L.J. (2007).

Molly Van Houweling
The New Servitudes, Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2008).