OF SPECIAL INTEREST
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> Special thanks to our 2009 - 2010 sponsors!

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

BCLT/BTLJ Fall Speaker Series
12:45 - 1:45 ~ Boalt 105

Boalt Hall students can enjoy lunch while discussing developments in IP, patents, and technology with leading attorneys. Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.

Tuesday, November 17
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Chuck Ebertin
Current Issues in IP Law

Thursday, November 19 POSTPONED
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Duane R. Valz
Bilski and Beyond: Patentable Subject Matter for the 21st Century Law
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BCLT's Hoofnagle to Testify in Congress on Data Brokers
10:00 ~ 2123 RHOB

Thursday, November 19, 2009

BCLT's Chris Hoofnagle will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and Communications, Technology, and the Internet this Thursday.

To read the full testimony, click here.
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10th Annual APLI

Thursday and Friday, December10-11, 2009
Four Seasons Hotel ~ East Palo Alto, CA

Join leading advanced patent practitioners, academics, in-house and outside counsel at the 10th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute.

2009 program highlights include:
  • Keynote speaker David Kappos, Director of the USPTO
  • Cost Management for IP Litigation: Strategies for Dealing with "Frivolous" Lawsuits
  • Patentable subject matter in the wake of Bilski
  • Obviousness in a post-KSR world
  • Patent counsel from Intel, Google, Microsoft and Genentech

View the full Conference Program and Schedule
Standard Registration: $775 | $825 after December 2
Credit Hours: 14.25 hrs | 2.00 hrs ethics
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BCLT to Host Federal Trade Commission Privacy Roundtable
9:00 ~ Booth Auditorium

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The FTC's second in a series of roundtables will focus on how technology affects consumer privacy, including its role in both raising privacy concerns and enhancing privacy protections. The roundtable will include specific discussions on cloud computing, mobile computing, and social networking. Specific questions to be explored include: What role do privacy enhancing technologies play in addressing Internet-related privacy concerns? And, what challenges do innovations in the digital environment pose for consumer privacy, and how can those challenges be addressed without stifling innovation or otherwise undermining benefits to consumers?
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Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable it

This survey explores Americans' opinions about behavioral targeting by marketers. Behavioral targeting involves two types of activities: following users' actions and then tailoring advertisements for the users based on those actions.

This survey finds that Americans want openness with marketers. If marketers want to continue to use various forms of behavioral targeting in their interactions with Americans, they must work with policymakers to open up the process so that individuals can learn exactly how their information is being collected and used, and then exercise control over their data. The survey offers specific proposals in this direction.

Read the full survey here.

NY Times coverage is 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 Entrepreneurship.

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.

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

Deirdre Mulligan
Fighting Crime with Publicly-Financed Surveillance Cameras: The San Francisco Experience, with J. King, and S. Raphael, in CALIFORNIA POLICY OPTIONS 2009 Ed. by Daniel J.B. Mitchell

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

Paul Schwartz
Preemption and Privacy, 118 Yale Law Journal 902 (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).