BCLT – Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

BCLT's Program Booklet
The Law & Technology Program Booklet outlines the curriculum at Boalt Hall, the Law & Tech Certificate, BCLT and affiliated organizations, student organizations, and the Law & Tech Faculty. (1 mb)

2006 - 07 Orientation Packet
The 1L Orientation Packet includes information for Boalt students about faculty, courses, awards, Fall events, and student organizations. (340 kb file)

Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar

Instructors: Robert Merges and Pamela Samuelson
Meeting Time: Thursday 2:20 - 4:10
Meeting Location: Boalt 145

As the institutions of property and contract evolve in the digital era, there are many open questions. Should trademark owners be able to stop search engines from using their marks as search terms? Should boilerplate terms of service on interior pages of web sites be enforceable even if the user never clicks on the link that would reveal them? And more broadly, what is the appropriate scope of the public domain, the cultural commons needed for creativity and innovation, and freedom of expression? The seminar takes up selected cutting-edge topics involving the ongoing evolution of contract and property in the intellectual property context.

Prerequisite: Students should have taken at least one introductory intellectual property course or have the equivalent background.

	August 24 Robert Merges Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley Locke Remixed (download paper in pdf format)
	August 31 Pamela Samuelson Boalt Hall School of Law & SIMS, UC Berkeley Trade Secrets and 1st Amendment (download paper in pdf format)
	September 7 Suzanne Scotchmer Economics & Public Policy, UC Berkeley Digital Rights Management and Pricing of Digital Products (paper available pdf format)
	September 14 Thomas Cotter University of Minnesota Fair Use and Copyright Overenforcement (paper available pdf format)
	September 21 Peter Menell Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley Unwinding Sony (paper available pdf format)
	September 28 Dietmar Harhoff Institut für Innovationsforschung, Technologiemanagement und Entrepreneurship Can Post-Grant Reviews Improve Patent System Design? A Twin Study of US and European Patents (paper available pdf format)
	October 5 *Fall Break*
	October 12 Elizabeth Rowe Levin College of Law, University of Florida Rethinking Trade Secret Disclosure in the Internet Age (paper available pdf format)
	October 19 Barton Beebe Cardozo Law School An Empirical Study of the US Copyright Fair Use Cases (paper available pdf format)
	October 26 David Adelman University of Arizona Law School Patent Metrics: The Mismeasure of Innovation in the Biotech Patent Debate (download paper in pdf format)
	November 2 Julie Cohen Georgetown University Law Center Creativity and Culture in Copyright Theory (download paper in pdf format)
	November 6 John Duffy George Washington University Law School Intellectual Property for Market Experimentation (download paper in pdf format) Note: This session will be held Monday from 4:20 - 6:00 pm in room 13. The session is co-sponsored with BCLBE.
	November 16 Frank Pasquale Seaton Hall University Law School The Law and Economics of Information Overload Externalities (download paper in pdf format)
	November 30 Arti Rai Duke Law School University Software Ownership: Trends, Determinants, Issues (download paper in pdf format)
	December 5 Mark McKenna St. Louis University Law School Schechter’s Triumph? The Real Shift in Trademark Law’s Normative Foundation (download paper in pdf format)