Summaries

2026 | 2025

2026

Protecting Quantum Innovation: IP Strategy in the Commercialization Era | September 15, 2026

Instructor(s)
Michael Schallop, Partner, Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP, & Adjunct Lecturer, UC Berkeley Law

Data Subject Rights: What Happens After the Request Comes In | September 8, 2026

Instructor(s)
Ali Jessani, Counsel, WilmerHale

Beyond HIPAA: What Happens When Everything Becomes Health Data | September 1, 2026

Instructor(s)
Kirk Nahra, Partner, WilmerHale; Co-Chair AI Practice & Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice

Patent Trial Strategy When IPRs Aren’t an Option | August 25, 2026

Instructor(s)
Debbie McComas, Partner; Chair, Federal Circuit Practice Group; Co-Chair, Community Engagement Committee, Haynes Boone
Stephanie Sivinski, Partner, Haynes Boone

Skinny Labels, Big Stakes: The Supreme Court Resets Generic-Drug Competition | July 21, 2026

Instructor(s)
William Jay, Partner, Appellate & Supreme Court Litigation, Goodwin Procter
Jaime Santos, Partner, Co-Chair, Appellate & Supreme Court Litigation, Goodwin Procter
Daryl Wiesen, Partner, Goodwin Procter
Isabel Marin, Associate, Appellate & Supreme Court Litigation, Goodwin Procter

How the Instructure Canvas Breach Exposes 275 Million Students and Faculty to Spear Phishing, Extortion, and Identity Fraud

Instructor(s)
Bryan Vorndran, Deputy CISO, Microsoft; former head, FBI Cyber Division
Miriam Wugmeister, Partner, Morrison & Foerster; Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Leader

EU AI Act Risk Tiers, GDPR Data Minimization, and U.S. State Law Converge on Agentic AI Compliance in 2026 | June 30, 2026

Instructor(s)
Shannon Yavorsky, Partner, Orrick; co-leader of Orrick’s global Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation group & the firm’s AI practice
Caitlin Burke, Associate, Orrick; Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation team

Protected Health Information, Business Associates, and the HIPAA Permitted-Use Framework: How HHS Balanced Privacy Against Healthcare System Efficiency | June 24, 2026

Instructor(s)
Kirk Nahra, Partner, WilmerHale; Co-Chair AI Practice & Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice

HIPAA’s Structural Gaps: Why a Portability Statute Became America’s Healthcare Privacy Law, and Why That History Still Matters | June 23, 2026

Instructor(s)
Kirk Nahra, Partner, WilmerHale; Co-Chair AI Practice & Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice

How the EU Cyber Resilience Act Transforms Cybersecurity Into Product Liability Law | June 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
Chris Hoofnagle, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, BCLT, UC Berkeley School of Law

China’s Patent and Trade Secret Landscape in Transition: How Rising Damages, Post-Filing Data Doctrine, and AI-Assisted Inventorship Are Reshaping IP Strategy | May 26, 2026

Instructor(s)
Dr. Yuan Hao, Director, BCLT’s Asia IP & Competition Law Center
Binxin Li, Co-founder, LeanWill

How Brazil’s Preliminary Injunction Regime Is Reshaping Global Patent Enforcement Strategy | Apr 21, 2026

Instructor(s)
Rob Rodrigues, Partner, RNA Law (Brazil)

What the Future of the 1976 Act Might Hold for Nonexpressive Uses, Fan Works, Orphan Works, and AI Training | Apr 17, 2026

Instructor(s)
Daniel Gervais, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law, Director, Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, and Faculty Co-Director, LL.M. Program, Vanderbilt Law School
Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, Emory University School of Law
Rebecca Tushnet, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Jennifer Urban, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Policy Initiatives, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Peter Menell, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Policy Initiatives, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of School Information, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How Copyright and Private Ordering Have Shaped Protection for Software from the 1976 Act to the AI Age | Apr 17, 2026

Instructor(s)
Clark Asay, Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Academic Affairs, BYU Law
A. Feder Cooper, Professor, Yale University
Jule Sigall, former Microsoft General Counsel
Pamela Samuelson, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How the 1976 Act and Misreading of its Legislative History Have Shaped the Relationship Between Federal and State Copyright Law | Apr 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
R. Anthony Reese, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Marketa Trimble, Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
Guy Rub,Vincent J. Marella Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Koret Professor of Law, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How the Scope of Copyright’s Exclusive Rights and Their Enforcement is Shaped by the Statute’s Text and Interstices | Apr 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
Christopher Sprigman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, NYU School of Law
Oren Bracha, William C. Conner Chair in Law, Professor, University of Texas School of Law
Justin Hughes, Hon. William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics, Loyola Law School
Laura Heymann, James G. Cutler Professor of Law, William and Mary Law School
Erik Stallman, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law

A View from the Bench: Technology and the 1976 Copyright Act | Apr 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown (Keynote), Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

How Broken Termination Promises, Overlooked Creators, and Market Consolidation Undermined the 1976 Act’s Author-Centered Design | Apr 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
Tyler Ochoa, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
David Nimmer, Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law, and Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP, author of Nimmer on Copyright
Robert Brauneis, Michael J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Faculty Co-Director of the GW Bernard Center for Law and Technology; Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program; Member, Project Board, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, George Washington University Law School
Peter DiCola, Professor of Law and Director of the JD-PhD Program, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How the 1976 Copyright Act’s Foundational Compromises Shaped—and Failed—Authors’ Rights Across Fifty Years | Apr 16, 2026

Instructor(s)
Shira Perlmutter (Keynote), Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office
Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School
Peter Menell, Koret Professor of Law, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law Professor of School Information, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law
Molly Van Houweling, Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property, Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How Cox Communications Reshaped the Contributory Copyright Infringement Standard | Apr 14, 2026

Instructor(s)
Pam Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

How the Dynamic Competition Paradigm Challenges Antitrust Law’s Static Framework in the Digital Economy | Apr 1, 2026

Instructor(s)
Prof. David Teece, Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Prof. Nicolas Petit, Professor, European University Institute
Dr. Bowman Heiden, Founding Faculty Director, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Daralyn Durie, Partner, Morrison Foerster

Data Privacy Class Action Litigation, CCPA’s Structural Barriers, and Why the Ninth Circuit Makes Mobile Contract Formation Nearly Impossible | March 25, 2026

Instructor(s)
Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Internet and Computer Law Year in Review 2025–2026: AI Copyright Fair Use, the CDA Circuit Split, and the Age Verification Flood Gate | March 24, 2026

Instructor(s)
Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

2025

Generative and Agentic AI in Patent Prosecution: Efficiency Gains, Fee Compression, and the Governance Gap Between Usage and Disclosure | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Steve Gong, Senior Patent Counsel, Head of Data Science, AI and Operations, Google
Michelle Lee, Founder, CEO, Obsidian Strategies
Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, Principal, Fish & Richardson
Ian Schick, Co-Founder & CEO, Paximal

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly: How the Trump Administration’s USPTO Personnel, Examination, and IPR Policies Are Degrading Patent Quality and Access | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Molly Kocialski, Of Counsel, Holland & Hart, former USPTO Regional Director
Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Director, Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School

AI-Assisted Invention, Thaler v. Vidal, and the Return of Conception Documentation as a Post-Grant Defense|December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Rachel Herder, SVP, Legal and Alliance Management, Head of IP, Mammoth Biosciences
Alex Nie, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Manita Rawat, Partner, Morgan Lewis
Sara Patak, Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Building a Valuable Patent Portfolio: Strategy, Prosecution Practice, and Global Considerations Across Technology Sectors | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
David Sanker, Founder, Sanker IP
Joy Nemirow, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Jeff Schox, Founding Partner, Schox Patent Group
Mike Schwartz, SVP, IP Litigation, Adeia

USPTO Director Squires’s 101 Reforms and the Growing Federal Circuit Divergence on AI Patent Eligibility | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Jane Qu, Partner, Van Pelt, Yi & James
Nikola Datzov, Professor of Law, University of North Dakota
Emily Roberts, Associate, Morrison Foerster
Harnik Shukla, Partner, Knobbe Martens

Section 112 Enablement and Written Description After Amgen: Federal Circuit Doctrine Reshaping Patent Prosecution Practice | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Miku Mehta, Partner, Procopio
Matthew Avery, Partner, Baker Botts
Anna Hyatt, Executive Director, Head of IP, Dren Bio
Kanda Ishihara, Senior IP Counsel, Lyft

AI Hallucinations, Candor Obligations, and Pretexting: Legal Ethics Doctrine in the Generative AI Era | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Azra Hadzimehnedovic, Co-Managing PartnerTensegrity
Ragesh Tangri, Partner, Morrison Foerster

Generative AI in Patent Litigation: Use Cases, Hallucination Risk, and the Ethics of Adoption | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Chris Mammen, Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
Sharif Jacob, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Eric Lin, VP, Strategy, Patlytics
David Lisson, Partner, Davis Polk
Sasha Rao, Partner, Nixon Peabody

How BSH v. Electrolux and the UPC Are Reshaping Global Patent Enforcement Strategy | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Tess Waldron, Partner, Powell Gilbert
Chris de Mauny, Partner, Bird & Bird
Julia Schönbohm, Intellectual Property Partner, Global Technology Sector Leader, Linklaters
Eric Whitaker, EVP and Chief Legal Officer, 10x Genomics

Patent Damages After EcoFactor and Rex v. Intuitive Surgical: What Apportionment Now Requires | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Karen Boyd, Partner, Turner Boyd
Mike Hendershot, Partner, Jones Day
Brian Napper, Senior Managing Director, Ocean Tomo
Matthew Powers, Co-Managing Partner, Tensegrity Law Group
Patricia Young, Partner, Latham & Watkins

How LKQ, Qualcomm, and the Stewart Memo Remade Prior Art Practice in Patent Litigation | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Neel Chatterjee, Partner, King & Spalding
Bethany Bengfort, Counsel, Turner Boyd
Jonathan Sanders, Counsel, Simpson Thacher
Chris Kao, Partner, Pillsbury

Equitable Defenses in Patent Litigation: Why Inequitable Conduct Rarely Survives to Trial | December 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Bhanu Sadasivan, Partner, McDermott
David Bloch, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Clem Roberts, Partner, Orrick
Greg Sobolski, Partner, Cleary

Andrei Iancu on the AIA’s Structural Flaw, the PREVAIL–PERA–RESTORE Legislative Agenda, and the Innovation Risk of US Patent Unenforceability | December 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Andrei Iancu, Partner and Co-Head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group, Sullivan & Cromwell, former Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Global Patent Injunction Campaigns: How Forum Selection, Property-Right Defaults, and Portfolio Architecture Drive Multi-Jurisdictional Enforcement |December 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Rob Rodrigues, Partner, RNA Law
Ellisen Turner, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Philipp Widera, Partner, Vossius
Saina Shamilov, Partner, Fenwick

Post-Grant Review After the Director’s Black-Box Denials: Deinstitution, Settled Expectations, and the NPRM’s Mega-Sotera Stipulation | December 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Jessica Kaiser, Firmwide Co-Chair, Patent Litigation Practice, Firmwide Co-Chair, Post-Grant Practice, Perkins Coie
Thomas Broughan, Partner, Sidley
Tim Saulsbury, Partner, Morrison Foerster
Debbie McComas, Partner, Haynes Boone

Global FRAND Rate Setting, Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions, and the Licensing Negotiation Group Debate After Unwired Planet | December 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Jane Bu, Senior Vice President, Via Licensing Alliance
Kai Rüting, Partner, Vossius
Yang Ye, General Counsel, VeriSilicon
Rajvinder Jagdev, Partner, Powell Gilbert

Patent Defense Strategy After PTAB’s Collapse: Ex Parte Reexamination, Special Verdict Forms, and Extraterritorial Royalty Bases | Dec 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Sarah Guske, Partner, Morgan Lewis
Matthias Kamber, Partner, Paul Hastings
Mike Powell, Partner, Quinn Emanuel
Bijal Vakil, Partner, Skadden

Trade Secret Law in the AI Era: How Bot-Based Scraping, DTSA Pleading Standards, and Unjust Enrichment Are Reshaping the Doctrine | Dec 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Camilla Hrdy, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Rajiv Patel, Partner, Fenwick
Thomas Sprankling, Partner, WilmerHale
Yar Chaikovsky, Partner, White & Case

PTAB Shutdown, Federal Circuit Damages Ceilings, and Litigation Finance Disclosure in a Reshaped Patent Enforcement Landscape | Dec 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Ryan Dykal, Partner, Boies Schiller
Courtney Quish, Managing Director, Fortress
Leslie Spencer, Partner, Desmarais
Steve Carlson, Partner, Robins Kaplan

Federal Circuit Patent Law Year in Review: Written Description, Defenses Eviscerated, and Damages Doctrine Tightened | Dec 4, 2025

Instructor(s)
Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

UPC Venue Selection, Preliminary Injunction Urgency Doctrine, and Competition Law as a Defense to Disproportionate Patent Injunctions | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Marc Lauzeral, Partner, Schertenleib Avocats
Ari Laakkonen, Partner, Powell Gilbert
Alexander Harguth, Partner, Bonabry
Steve Carlson, Partner, Robins Kaplan

Invalidity Challenges at the EPO, UPC, and PTAB: Forum Selection, Inventive Step Divergence, and the Collapse of IPR Institution Rates | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Yasmine Azzaoui, Counsel, Bonabry
Farheena Rasheed, Partner, Orrick, and former Solicitor and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law, USPTO
Alexander Harguth, Partner, Bonabry
Jeff Kushan, Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP

How UPC Judges Ensure Uniformity, Enforce Front-Loading, and Approach Injunctions and Ireland’s Accession | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Hon. Klaus Grabinski, President of the UPC, member of the Presidium and Presiding Judge of the 1st section of the UPC CoA
Hon. Camille Lignieres, President of the Paris Local Division, member of the Presidium
Marc Lauzeral, Partner, Schertenleib Avocats

UPC Defensive Strategy From the Inside: Protective Letters, Preemptive Revocation, and Saisie Preparedness | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Avi Schwartz, VP, IP Counsel, Edwards Lifesciences
Mark Schildkraut, VP, Chief IP Counsel, Stanley Black & Decker
Ari Laakkonen, Partner, Powell Gilbert
Steve Carlson, Partner, Robins Kaplan

UPC Caseload Statistics, Forum-Shopping Dynamics, and Preliminary Injunction Grant Rates Through 2025 | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Marc Lauzeral, Partner, Schertenleib Avocats
Carl-Alexander Dinges, Partner, Bonabry
Yasmine Azzaoui, Counsel, Bonabry
Steve Carlson, Partner, Robins Kaplan
Rajvinder Jagdev, Partner, Powell Gilbert

How US Patent Enforcement Decline Elevated the UPC as the Global Forum for Injunctive Relief | Nov 20, 2025

Instructor(s)
Steve Akerley, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Global Head of Litigation, InterDigital, Inc.
Terry Rea, Professorial Lecturer in Law, GW Law, and former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Acting Director of the USPTO
Andrei Iancu, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, and former Director, USPTO
Wayne Stacy, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Pre-Litigation IP Readiness for Life Sciences Startups: Cease-and-Desist Letters, Willful Infringement, and Venue Strategy | November 5, 2025

Instructor(s)
Natasha Daughtrey, Partner, Goodwin
Josh Weinger, PhD, Partner, Goodwin

Ratigan and the Economic Loss Rule: Fraudulent Concealment Liability in Technology Consulting Agreements | October 28, 2025

Instructor(s)
Brent Sokol, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Alex Linhardt, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

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