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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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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April 9 - 10, 2010
2010 will mark the 300th anniversary of The Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law. Enacted in 1710 by the English Parliament, the statute represented a marked departure from the Stationers Company's pre-modern "copie-right" regime which preceded it. Among other things, the Statute of Anne articulated a rationale for a grant of protection -- encouraging learned men to write books; it vested rights in authors; it allowed copyright only in newly created books; and it limited the term of copyright to fourteen years, after which the book entered the public domain (unless the author renewed his claim for another fourteen years).
The tricentennial of the Statute of Anne is a suitable occasion for looking back at the law's influence on the history and evolution of the Anglo-American copyright tradition. It is also an opportunity to look forward -- to explore how the lessons from this history might help us surmount the challenges that lie ahead for copyright law in the twenty-first century.
Click here for more information.
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Recent Events
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Friday, November 6
On November 6, 2009, Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology and Berkeley’s chapter of UAEM will host the next step. Scientists, patient advocates, IP scholars, pharmaceutical and biotech executives, and legal professionals will discuss the design of prior pools, consider the proposed HIV/AIDS pool, and evaluate additional pool designs for neglected diseases.
Panelists from UNITAID, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, the FTC, Doctors Without Borders, the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative, Emory University, Duke University, UC Berkeley, VIA Licensing, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Fenwick & West, Fish & Richardson, and others will describe current and planned endeavors to increase innovation and access to therapies.
Designed to facilitate collaboration across sectors, the workshop aims to combine the best science and the best practices of university, industry, and not-for-profit actors to address this preeminent challenge of our generation.
Participants include several representatives from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, Merck, Merck Frosst Canada, the Gates Foundation, Soros Foundation, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Institute for One World Health, Project Inform, and tech transfer managers from Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Columbia, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, UNC, and the University of British Columbia.
Click here for more information.
This event is sold out! Thank you for such a great response.
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As social-networking websites such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter continue to become more popular, criminal and civil attorneys across the nation are using these websites to find evidence and personal information integral to their cases. However, the legal community has not reached consensus on the legal and ethical issues involved in using these sites for investigations.
The conference will address these issues including: the legal and ethical considerations in obtaining information overtly (with subpoenas and warrants) and covertly (using pseudonyms to reach out to witnesses online); best practices for successfully using information obtained from social-networking websites; how to regulate the use of social networks; and how social media has impacted the legal profession.
Click here for more information. Audio from the conference is now online!
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Patent assertion and licensing activity between productive companies can have more impact on a business than "the troll problem". At this conference we will analyze the "why" and "how" of patent cross-licensing.
Featured speaker Marshall Phelps, author of "Burning the Ships: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Microsoft " will talk about his experiences at IBM and Microsoft. Attorneys and Licensing Executives from IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Intel and Juniper will discuss negotiation strategies, calculation of balancing payments, portfolio development and business objectives.
Experienced licensing experts will discuss the key issues that arise in drafting a cross-license and various ways to resolve them.
Click here for more information. Audio from the conference is now online!
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BCLT/BTLJ Receptions
5:30 - 7:00 ~ Donor Lobby
Practitioners from top law firms host Law & Technology receptions for Boalt students in the Donor Lobby. Come and meet attorneys, make connections, prepare yourself for the future job search --and have some fun. Cocktails and savory hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Thanks to BCLT's sponsors for their continued suppport.
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Law & Technology Career Fair
Tuesday, September 1
12:30 - 2:00 in Donor Lobby / Steinhart
Practioners and alumni from the following top IP law firms in the Bay Area will be in attendance at this job fair. This is a great time to reconnect with attorneys you interviewed with during your OCIs and make new connections for future OCIs or drop in interviews. Take advantage of this great opportunity to stand out among your classmates!
| Baker & McKenzie Baker Botts L.L.P. Bingham McCutchen Chadbourne & Park LLP Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Dechert LLP DLA Piper Durie Tangri Page Lemley Roberts & Kent LLP Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Fish & Richardson P.C. Goodwin Procter LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP Haynes and Boone, LLP Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP |
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP Latham & Watkins LLP McDermott Will & Emery Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom LLP & Affiliates Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP Van Pelt, Yi and James LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP White & Case LLP Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
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August 6 & 7, 2009 (Thursday)
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The Intellectual Property Program at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will host the 9th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference on August 6th and 7th, 2009, co-sponsored by BCLT, DePaul, and Stanford.
For more information, visit http://www.ipscholars.org.
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The Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) will hold their 2009 congress in Berkeley, CA on the dates 9th and 10th of July, 2009.
The event is being organised locally in conjunction with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (University of California, Berkeley).
The website will periodically provide updated information regarding the congress.
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Spring Lunch Speaker Series
Thank you to all our sponsors for a great semester of law and technology lunches!
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Co-sponsored by BCLT and produced by SageScape LLC, Tech Policy Summit is the only executive conference of its kind that brings together prominent leaders from the private and public sectors to examine critical policy issues impacting technology innovation and adoption in the United States and beyond.
The nonpartisan gathering provides an independent, balanced forum for learning and networking among an exclusive group of industry insiders, government officials and policy experts who may have different perspectives but who share a common goal of enabling innovation. The 3rd annual Summit will be held May 11-13, 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more at TechPolicyCentral.com.
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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, “To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy.”
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April 30, 2009 (Thursday)
8:30 am to 6:30 pm
~ Santa Clara Law School, Bannan 127
Join two dozen distinguished scholars and practitioners to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 1909 Act and its profound effect on U.S. and international copyright law. The Conference is co-sponsored by BCLT.
The 1909 Copyright Act marked a revolution in U.S. copyright law. The 1909 Act was the first to protect works upon publication with notice, without prior registration; the first to expressly recognize a right to prepare derivative works; and the first to expressly recognize the public domain. The 1909 Act remained in effect for seven decades, during which time copyright law was repeatedly called upon to deal with the disruptive effect of new technologies, such as motion pictures, sound recordings, radio and television, photocopy machines, and computers. As a result, the 1909 Act had a significant influence on the copyright law we have today.
Registration is free. For more information visit the High Tech law Institute.
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March 25, 2009 (Wednesday)
6:00 to 9:00 pm
~ Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara
This month’s SVIPLA program is co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Santa Clara Law's High Tech Law Institute, and the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. The panelists from these universities will focus their presentation on patent reform from the judicial and agency perspective.
SPEAKERS:
- Robert Barr, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and Lecturer-in-Residence at the University of California Berkeley School of Law
- Professor Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University Law School
- Professor Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Director of Stanford’s LLM Program in Law, Science and Technology
Scholarships are availabe to Berkeley Law Students. Email David Grady for more information.
To register for the program please visit the SVIPLA website.
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Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar
Thank you to all who participated in this semester's IP Scholarship Seminar!
| Pamela Samuelson UC Berkeley School of Law Suzanne Scotchmer School of Law, Economics, & Public Policy, UC Berkeley Mark Lemley Stanford Law School Peter Lee University of California, Davis Steven Maurer University of California, Goldman School of Public Policy Christopher Sprigman University of Virginia School of Law |
Molly Van Houweling UC Berkeley School of Law Tony Reese University of Texas School of Law Peter DiCola Northwestern University School of Law William Fisher Harvard Law School Amy Kapczynski UC Berkeley School of Law Margaret Taylor Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley |
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9th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute
Thursday & Friday, December 11 - 12
Santa Clara, CA ~ Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
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Come to the heart of Silicon Valley, and join leading judges and practitioners from major corporations such as Google, Yahoo!, and Genentech. This conference is jointly sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley and the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology. |
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Law & Technology Career Fair
Thursday, August 21
12:30 - 2:00 in Bordon / Darling Courtyard
Boalt Hall students are invited to come and meet with representatives from 30 firms. Many of the top intellectual property, high tech and entertainment law firms will be present to discuss your career paths and opportunities.
Attending firms include:
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1L / Transfer Student Orientation
Tuesday, August 19
12:45 - 1:45 ~ Room 105
The BCLT 1L Transfer Orientation allows incoming Boalt students to meet representatives from the BCLT Faculty and staff, members of seven affiliated student groups, the Samuelson Clinic, and provide an overview of the Law & Tech Program at Boalt.
Groups attending the meeting:
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative
Berkeley Technology Law Journal
boalt.org
Healthcare and Biotech Law Society
Patent Law Society
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Seminar
Sports and Entertainment Law Society
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
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Boalt Public Interest Reception
Tuesday, August 19
4:00 - 6:00 ~ Donor Lobby
Representatives from BCLT and many other Berkeley Law Centers will be on hand to discuss careers in public interest law, during an informal wine & cheese reception. This is a great chance to hear from different programs and meet your fellow public interest students.
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Bay Area Blawgers 3.0
May 20 (Tuesday)
6:00 - 8:00 ~ Goldberg Room, UC Berkeley Law School
BCLT is pleased to co-sponsor -- with the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law -- Bay Area Blawgers 3.0. This will be the third gathering of legal bloggers in the Bay Area and friends. As has been done in the past, we'll spend about 1 hour of our time in a structured discussion, with the balance of our time for informal chit-chatting.
When: May 20, 6-8 pm
Who: Everyone is welcome, but this event principally will cater to active legal bloggers. Bloggers and friends who have said they plan to attend include: Tsan Abrahamson, Jerry Bame, Robert Barr, Larry Downes, Eli Edwards, Bob Eisenbach, Cathy Gellis, Eric Goldman, Beth Grimm, Greg Haverkamp, Cathy Kirkman, Kimberly A. Kralowec, Ethan Leib, Cathy Moran, Joe Mullin, Deborah Neville, David Newdorf, Dana Nguyen, Aaron Perzanowski, Elizabeth Pianca, Mark Radcliffe, Ash Remwa, Colin Samuels, Jason Schultz, Tim Stanley, Stacy Stern, John Steele, Kevin Underhill, Fred von Lohmann, J. Craig Williams and Cicely Wilson. (This list will be updated as new blawgers and friends RSVP).
How: Directions and parking.
Cost: Admission is free.
CLE: This event qualifies for 1 hour of general CLE credit. Santa Clara University School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
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June 12 & 13, 2008
GW Law School
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) aims to assemble a wide array of privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss current issues and foster greater connections between academia and practice. It will bring together privacy law scholars, privacy scholars from other disciplines (economics, philosophy, political science, computer science), and practitioners (industry, legal, advocacy, and government).
The conference will feature roundtable group discussion on academic issues (teaching and scholarship) as well as on practice issues (regulation and litigation). It will also feature a keynote address, as well as several paper workshops. The goal is to enhance ties within the privacy law community and to facilitate dialogue between the different parts of that community (academy, government, industry, and public interest). For paper workshops, conference attendees will be expected to read the papers in advance, and papers will be introduced with only a few brief remarks so as to maximize time for rigorous discussion of the paper.
Contact Chris Hoofnagle or Dan Solove for more information.
For a complete list of BCLT's events, please see our calendar.