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 3
Latham & Watkins

Jim Day, Melissa Chan, and Svetlana Berman
Patent Reform: If Congress and the PTO Can't Do It, the Court's Will (Sort of)
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Thursday, November 5
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Patty Thayer & Beth Goldman
ISP or Not? Liability and Damages for the Contributory Trademark and Patent Infringer
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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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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.

Invited participants include stakeholders from global health (UNITAID and MSF-Doctors Without Borders), pharmaceutical and biotech companies (Gilead, Tibotec, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Genentech), not-for-profit biomedical research (University of California, Emory University, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of North Carolina), and some of the field’s most important life science and IP counselors (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Fenwick & West, Covington & Burling, Fish & Richardson, and Morrison|Foerster). 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 a preeminent challenge of our generation – the creation and distribution of essential medicines.

Click here for more information. Registration is now sold out!
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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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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! 

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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!

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9th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute

Thursday & Friday, December 11 - 12
Santa Clara, CA ~ Hyatt Regency Santa Clara

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. Click here for more information and to register!

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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