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Patent Trial Strategy When IPRs Aren’t an Option
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B-CLE Webcast 0.50 General CLE Credit Offered Two years ago, the PTAB denied about a third of IPR petitions; today it denies nearly two-thirds — and filings have collapsed from roughly 185 in a single quarter to 15 in a single month. So what happens to your invalidity case when the Patent Office is no longer a realistic venue? In this webcast, Debbie McComas, partner in Haynes Boone’s litigation department and past chair of the firm’s Federal Circuit Practice Group, and Stephanie Sivinski, partner in Haynes Boone’s patent trial group in Dallas, walk through what patent litigators should be doing right now — from ex parte reexams and stays to claim construction tension, expert selection, and system art. This conversation is candid, practical, and refreshingly willing to disagree in public about what actually works in front of a jury. |
Health Care Privacy 101 and Beyond
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B-CLE Webcast 0.50 General CLE & CPE Credit Offered Healthcare privacy law is one of the most consequential—and most misunderstood—areas of modern legal practice. Join Kirk Nahra, Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practices at WilmerHale, for a compelling deep dive into healthcare privacy fundamentals as part of the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Expert Series. With more than 26 years of frontline experience, Kirk cuts through the complexity to reveal how HIPAA actually came to be, who it really covers, and why the regulatory landscape is growing more tangled—and more critical—by the year. This multipart series is designed to give you the baseline every privacy and healthcare professional needs. |
Data Subject Rights: What Happens After the Request Comes In
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B-CLE Webcast 0.75 General CLE & CPE Credit Offered Deleting a consumer’s data sounds simple — until one California request cascades across every subsidiary in your corporate family, browser signals and one-click portals fire off thousands of opt-outs at once, and a regulator checks your compliance just by visiting your website. Ali Jessani, counsel in WilmerHale’s Washington, D.C. office and a specialist in U.S. state privacy compliance, maps the patchwork — 23 comprehensive state privacy laws, consumer health statutes, data broker regimes, and the FTC Act humming in the background — then dig into the operational realities: fragmented intake, identity verification, vendor flow-down, tight response clocks, and dark-pattern risk in opt-out interfaces. If you’re hearing about this for the first time when a request lands in your inbox, you’re already too late. |
Protecting Quantum Innovation: IP Strategy in the Commercialization Era
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B-CLE Webcast 0.75 General CLE & CPE Credit Offered Quantum technology has left the realm of science fiction — and the law is racing to catch up. In this webcast, Michael Schallop, partner at Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP and adjunct lecturer at UC Berkeley Law, explains why quantum companies can no longer treat intellectual property as a late-stage legal formality. Drawing on his recent Law360 article, Schallop walks through the decisions that shape long-term value: which innovations to patent and which to guard as trade secrets, how to untangle inventorship and ownership in university spinouts and federally funded research, and how export controls and foreign filing rules can constrain a portfolio before it is ever built. He also separates real quantum opportunity from hype. The message is straightforward: IP strategy is commercialization infrastructure, and the choices made now are hard to undo later. |
Tech Tuesday On-Demand Offerings
Welcome to Tech Tuesdays, our weekly offerings of select B-CLE on-demand courses.
Enrollment and CLE are complimentary with the code: BCLT-TechTues. Apply the code during check-out (case and character sensitive). This code is only good for the program(s) listed below. A B-CLE account is required to enroll in B-CLE courses. Subscribe at no charge.
Health Care Privacy 101 and Beyond
0.50 General CLE & CPE Credit Offered |
2-Session Program B-CLE Recordings (CLE: $50 per course) | Youtube Recording | Resource(s) | Summary | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info Kirk Nahra of WilmerHale, one of the nation’s leading healthcare privacy attorneys with nearly three decades in the field, explains how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s origins as a labor-mobility and administrative-efficiency statute—not a privacy law—created structural coverage gaps that exclude pharmaceutical companies, life insurers, and most consumer health apps, and why the resulting proliferation of overlapping state and federal law now threatens to produce what Nahra calls “growing chaos” that is “bad for both industry and for patients.” |
Emerging Technologies & the Evolving Privacy and AI Regulatory Landscape
0.50 General CLE & CPE Credit Offered |
Location: B-CLE B-CLE Recording (CLE: $50) | Youtube Recording | Summary | Resource(s) | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info The legal landscape around emerging technology is moving faster than ever — and staying ahead of it is no longer optional. Join us as Shannon Yavorsky (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP) and Caitlin Burke (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP) present an essential briefing on the technologies reshaping industries and the privacy, AI, and data regulations that companies must navigate to keep pace. From the EU AI Act and GDPR to California’s ADMT rules and over 150 newly enacted state AI statutes, this session cuts through the complexity and gives you a practical framework for building a durable compliance program. |