The 14th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute
December 12 – 13, 2013
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA
Co-organized by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and Stanford Law School. Join a nationally recognized faculty of leading judges, professors, litigators, patent attorneys and senior IP counsel from major corporations for the Advanced Patent Law Institute.
Balancing Privacy and Opportunity in the Internet Age
December 12, 2013
Santa Clara University
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Topics include: Personal Information, Privacy and the Internet: An Overview; Are Disclosure-based Approaches to Privacy Protection Working, and If Not, Should They Be Improved, or Should Other Approaches Be Considered? and Looking Forward: Future Privacy Challenges and Possible Government Responses.
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Developments in California Privacy Law: Assessing the Present and Predicting the Future
December 3, 2013
55 Second Street
Twenty-Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and Paul Hastings present a Privacy Roundtable to discuss the impact of recent changes in California privacy law. Hear from leading experts and top policymakers about the recent Assembly session and the likely future direction of California privacy law.
The Fifth Annual Patent Law and Policy Conference
November 1, 2013
Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center, 120 F Street NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC
Two leading universities in intellectual property law from both coasts – Georgetown University Law Center and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology – have joined together to host a unique conference on the role of the courts in patent law and policy.
Altai @ 21: Software Copyrights Revisited
October 25, 2013
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
This workshop will bring together intellectual property professionals with experience in software protection issues to consider these and other questions: How useful and appropriate is the Altai “abstraction, filtration, comparison” test? How well or poorly have courts applied it in subsequent cases?
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting
October 17, 2013
Booth Auditorium
Berkeley, CA
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
The Partnership Meeting is an opportunity to bring stakeholders together to share ideas, experiences and insights and to provide a forum for an informal discussion of many topics specific to the software community.
Privacy Roundtable: Pulling the Curtain Back to Reveal the New World of Web Tracking
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Offices
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA
Join us for a breakfast roundtable in Palo Alto on October 16, 2013 at the law offices of WSGR to hear from a panel of experts to discuss what’s really occurring on your website as well as its business and privacy impact on your company.
ChIPs Women in IP Global Summit
October 1 – 2, 2013
Mandarin Oriental Hotel,
1330 Maryland Ave., SW
Washington, DC
The summit will bring together women leaders from across industry, private practice, government, judiciary, administrative agencies, academia, and more to engage in dialogue on cutting edge issues relating to intellectual property. This year’s agenda will include substantive panels, fireside chats and relationship-building opportunities with intellectual property’s most influential, innovative and strategic leaders from Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, and beyond, who have been at the forefront of forging new ground in their fields.
Law & Tech Program Orientation
BCLT’s Orientation provides insight into the Law & Technology Program at Berkeley Law. New students can meet representatives from the BCLT faculty and staff, our eight affiliated student groups and the Samuelson Clinic.
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The Supreme Court and DNA Patents: A Myriad of Ramifications
Monday, July 1, 2013
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Panel Discussion: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Networking Reception: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
In Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics, Inc., a unanimous Supreme Court held that isolated naturally-occurring human DNA is not patentable subject matter, but synthetic c-DNA is patent eligible. On July 1, The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati will co-host a panel on the meaning and impact of the Court’s decision.
6th Annual Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference
June 6 – 7, 2013
Claremont Hotel
Berkeley CA
The 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).
17th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium: Reform(aliz)ing Copyright for the Internet age?
April 18 – 19, 2013
Claremont Hotel
Berkeley CA
This conference will consider, among other things, the useful role that formalities can play in addressing today’s copyright challenges, what kinds of formalities might best serve the interests of authors and of the public, economic considerations posed by formalities, the need for appropriate technological infrastructures to support new formalities regimes, and some constraints that the Berne Convention may pose for the design and implementation of new formalities regimes.
Developer Patent Summit
April 9, 2013
Offices of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
San Francisco, CA
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
The software patent system poses a significant challenge for developers. Patent trolls, product life cycles shorter than the patent process, and general uncertainty threatens to stifle innovation and growth in the app industry. The Application Developers Alliance is connecting experts with developers to discuss this critical issue.
The Silicon Valley Technocrats: Evgeny Morozov on his new book, To Save Everything, Click Here
April 1, 2013
UC Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
Event Recording
As part of the Samuelson Clinic Privacy Scholarship Series, author Evgeny Morozov will discuss his new book, To Save Everything, Click Here, The Folly of Technological Solutionism.
The Big Ideas flowing from Silicon Valley often focus upon applying some technological solution to the many intractable problems of life. Morozov’s new work challenges readers to interrogate these technological solutions.
The 2nd Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum: Silicon Valley
March 21, 2013
Four Seasons Silicon Valley
East Palo Alto, CA
The second annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum will feature leading academics and practitioners discussing the latest developments in privacy law. Panel topics include the EU-US Privacy Collision, Privacy and The Price of Free, The Management of Privacy Processes: the CPO And Beyond, and Technology and Privacy Design.
6th annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Data Access & Retention
February 28, 2013
Bancroft Hotel
Berkeley, CA
In each system of American and Europe data surveillance law, proportionality and the privatization of state surveillance activity become keys to the transparency of citizen’s data. But the reliance on proportionality is untenable and the imposition on private actors to resolve the balance between state and individual interests creates a fundamental undermining of online privacy.
Music Business Seminar 2013: Fast Forward! Protecting and Selling Music in the Digital Age
January 26, 2013
UC Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
Music industry professionals, artists and entertainment attorneys will discuss protecting and selling music in the digital age. Panel Topics include Creative Music Licensing, The Live Music Business, Artist Management, The Streaming Music Business, Creative Collaborations and Partnerships, Music Licensing Basics, The Role of Labels in the Digital Age.