China Law, Trade and IP 2020
Online Certificate Series
Intellectual property law in China is undergoing rapid change, with profound implications for the global tech industry. The Asia IP and Technology Law Project presented a series of seven webinars, which began May 27, 2020. Leading experts from China and the U.S. covered developments in Chinese law on important topics including patentability, pharmaceutical IP, trade secrets law and enforcement, licensing and antitrust, and copyright. In addition to CLE credit, individuals who attended 6 out of 7 webinar sessions are eligible to receive a certificate in Chinese IP law from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
Apply for the certificate here.
Who Will Benefit from This Series
This series is intended for in-house counsel and law firm attorneys representing tech companies concerned about protecting their IP in China. Whether you have been doing trans-Pacific work for a long time, or are newly focused on trying to understand the Chinese legal landscape, this series will get you up to speed on key developments spurred by the trade wars and internal drivers of law reform in China.
Participate in Real Time or View the Series at Your Convenience
Each session in the series was presented in real-time, with audience Q&A. In addition, a recording of each session was made available to registrants. So if you subscribed to the series after it began, you can go back at your convenience and watch the recorded sessions.
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Legal Frontiers in Digital Media: 2020 Webinar Series
Content Moderation and the Coronavirus
Wednesday, April 15
Details
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Webscraping and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Claims After hiQ
May 14, 2020
Resources
Presentation slides
Contact Tracing and other Data Use in Response to COVID: What Does the Law Allow?
May 28, 2020
Resources
Tough Issues and Hot Topics in CCPA Compliance
June 18, 2020
Resources
Happy 2nd Birthday, GDPR:
Lessons learned about GDPR compliance
Organized with Osborne Clarke
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation took effect two years ago, with huge implications for companies around the world, including those based in the U.S. Two years in, it is probably time for companies to revisit their GDPR compliance strategy. Based on the lessons learned from enforcement actions and regulators’ guidance, what might you have overlooked or gotten wrong? What is the latest understanding of best practices on privacy impact assessments, access requests, and other features introduced or strengthened in the GDPR?
Speakers:
Emily Jones, head of Osborne Clarke’s Silicon Valley Office in Palo Alto and a specialist in European and UK data privacy and technology law
Flemming Moos, Osborne Clarke partner, ranked as one of the leading data protection lawyers in Germany
Moderator: Jim Dempsey, executive director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
Organized jointly by BCLT and the George Washington University Law School, PLSC assembles 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.
China Law, Trade and IP 2020, Online Certificate Series
May 20, 2020– Following the Data: What the Latest Research Says about China’s Legal and IP Environment
How should we understand data-driven Chinese legal policymaking, and how do these tools provide strategic insights?
Speakers:
- Benjamin Liebman, Columbia University
- Tobias Smith, UC Berkeley
- Melissa Schneider, Darts IP
- Robert Merges, UC Berkeley
- Fei Deng, Charles River Associates
- Mark Cohen, BCLT (moderator)
May 6, 2020– The Phase 1 Agreement and Its Implementation
Former high-ranking US government officials and one of China’s leading experts on IP law will discuss the Phase 1 Trade Agreement between the US and China. Among the issues to be discussed: To what extent will the Agreement improve US and Chinese trade relations? On IP specifically, what does the Agreement offer to US companies? Will China wholeheartedly implement the Agreement. Will the dispute settlement mechanisms in the Agreement work? What about China’s own efforts to improve its IP regime? What further improvements are possible in a Phase 2 Agreement, and indeed will there be a Phase 2?
Speakers:
- Craig Allen, President US-China Business Council
- Warren Maruyama, Hogan Lovells
- Guobin Cui, Tsinghua University Law School
- Wendy Cutler, Asia Society
- Mark Cohen, Berkeley Law (moderator)
April 22, 2020– China: Law, Economy and Trade in 2020
A look at legal and economic developments in China as they affect trans-Pacific trade for 2020 and beyond.
Speakers:
- Jerome A. Cohen, NYU
- Susan Finder, Peking University Transnational Law School (Shenzhen)
- Sean Randolph, Bay Area Economic Council
- Mark Cohen, Berkeley Law (moderator)
Book warming: The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
May 13, 2020
Mara Hvistendahl is a Pulitizer Prize runner-up in non-fiction writing. In her new book, she chronicles an FBI investigation that began with the September 2011 trespassing inquiry of Chinese nationals in an Iowa cornfield and grew into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country. Science magazine in reviewing the book noted, “If there is a subplot that makes this book essential reading, especially for those working in the sciences today, it is Hvistendahl’s documentation of the disturbing effects that the too-vigorous pursuit of industrial spies has had on Chinese scientists and engineers in the United States.”
Suggested reading
Webinar recording
24th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
The Roles of Technology Expertise in Law and Policy
February 27-28, 2020
International House
UC Berkeley
As more litigation, legislation, and regulation involves technological matters (especially those involving digital technologies), this 2-day symposium explored how expertise about technology and its impacts is generated, introduced, and used in making legal and policy decisions. The first day, February 27, focused on the judiciary. Day 2, February 28, examined issues related to legislative and executive branch decision-making at the federal, state, and local levels.