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Dear Students and Faculty,
Welcome back from the Labor Day weekend! We hope you had a fun and restful holiday.
This week we continue our speaker series with a talk from McDermott, Will & Emery LLP on Tuesday, 9/6, and from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP on Thursday, 9/8. On Wednesday, BCLBE will be presenting an introduction to Startup@Berkeley Law and attorneys from Gunderson Dettmer will be discussing opportunities to work with startups at UC Berkeley.
REMINDER- September 9th is the deadline for submitting applications for Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellows.
If you picked up one of the 1L Questionnaires at Orientation, forms are due back to BCLT (Boalt Room 421) by Monday, September 12th. And don't forget to check out our new BCLT 1L Handbook for the 2016-2017 school year. Here is a link to the handbook online.
See below for more information on these and other events, opportunities and more.
If you have any questions about this week's content or items for inclusion in future newsletters, please email bclt@law.berkeley.edu. All items for inclusion must be submitted by 12:00 p.m. Friday of the week prior to publication.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
"It Takes Two to Tango—the Interplay between Written Description and Obviousness”
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Partner Bhanu Sadasivan ‘04 from McDermott Will & Emery will discuss the interplay between written description and obviousness and its potential ramification: a party may be squeezed between having to demonstrate both adequate written description and lack of written description if they assert patent invalidity for lack of written description and obviousness.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and the Patent Law Society.
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Law Firm Hot Topic Speaker Series
Introduction to Startup@BerkeleyLaw
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Conversation with Attorneys from Gunderson Dettmer
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
12:45 PM -1:45 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 132
Lunch provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Business Law Journal and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT).
Hear about opportunities to work with startups at UC Berkeley! Startup@BerkeleyLaw is a collaboration between the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The program supports law students interested in the law surrounding entrepreneurship and provides legal education and services to the Berkeley startup community.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner LLP
Thursday, Sep 8, 2016
12:45 PM -1:45 PM
Boal Hall, Room 105
Partner Lily Lim from Finnegan will discuss the interplay of trade secrets and cybersecurity.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Boalt.org Welcome Happy Hour
Bear’s Lair
Thursday, September 8
6:00 pm-7:30 pm
2495 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
Come meet like-minded people, network, share resources and ideas, and build community around making tech work for the public good.
All welcome + no law/tech skills required.
Free food + drinks
RSVP on Facebook »
boalt.org is Berkeley Law’s public interest and technology group. We meet regularly to network, share resources and ideas, build community, and discuss trends in emerging legal, technology and innovation. We also work with the Boalt community and with other campus initiatives to foster collaboration and improve legal innovation, design and technology.
Co-sponsored by Boalt.org and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
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CDO/BCLBE/BCLT: How to Socialize with Attorneys (Without Feeling Like an Idiot)
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Boalt Hall, Warren Room
Sponsored by the Career Development Office, the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and Economy, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
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I School Dean's Lecture: Jeff Jonas
"Making Sense of Data in Real Time"
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
South Hall, Room 202
Jeff Jonas is a pioneering data scientist and developer of cutting-edge context-aware computing systems. Jonas was an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing. His work in context-aware computing was originally developed at Systems Research & Development (SRD), founded by Jonas in 1985, and acquired by IBM in January, 2005.
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ChIPs Women in Tech, Law and Policy Global Summit 2016
September 14-16, 2016
Mandarin Oriental
Washington, D.C.
Entrepreneurs, judges, policymakers, in-house counsel, IP practitioners, and Berkeley's own Pam Samuelson examine the latest developments in IP, with sessions on patents, copyright, trade secrets, tech transactions, and diversity.
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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Applications Open for Barr Scholarship
The Robert Barr Scholarship, created in honor of BCLT's long-time executive director, is accepting applications from current 2Ls and 3Ls.
This scholarship is for students who demonstrate financial need and a committed interest in the field of law and technology. The scholarship award amount is up to $15,000. Examples of committed interest include a technical degree or technical work experience, summer job in intellectual property or related field during law school, participation in BTLJ, enrollment in the Law and Technology Writing Workshop, enrollment and grade in Introduction to Intellectual Property, enrollment and grade in other courses listed under “Intellectual Property and Technology Law,” and statement submitted with application. To be considered, please send a copy of your transcript and a 1pg personal statement to financial-aid-law@berkeley.edu. Deadline: October 15, 2016.
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Law & Technology Certificate Program
Applications are now being accepted for the Law & Technology Certificate program.
The Law & Technology Certificate recognizes successful completion of a specialized course of study in addition to an activity component. The curricular requirements emphasize depth and breadth of coverage and afford students substantial flexibility in adapting their course of study toward a range of career paths at the growing intersection of law and technology.
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1L Mentor Program
Students, if you would like to sign up, complete this form and submit by Friday, September 12.
-BCLT Staff
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Writing Competition — Patent Quality
The Patent Quality Initiative is hosting a writing competition for law students to research and write about issues related to patent quality. The First Place entry will be awarded $3,000 and Second Place will be awarded $1,500. Both winning articles will be published on the Patently-O Patent Law Journal and on the Patent Quality Initiative’s website.
Entries may be submitted beginning September 5, 2016, and must be submitted no later than September 26, 2016.The full competition information and entry requirements are here.
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Law and Policy Fellowship
Applications now open for Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellows, through 9/9.
The Internet Law & Policy Foundry, a professional development organization for young legal & policy nerds, is taking applications for its fellowship program through September 9. Law students are eligible. The Foundry offers a platform for professional development, constructive debate, and network-building within a cohort of skilled attorneys and policy analysts eager to help shape the development of Internet law and policy. Foundry Fellows are early career professionals and students who run the Foundry, setting the strategy of the Foundry.
In addition, the Foundry has established the most trafficked Internet law jobs board in America for Internet law & policy opportunities.
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Technology and Delegation I School Course Open to Law Students: Fall 2016
BCLT faculty director Deirdre Mulligan is teaching a fascinating course at the Berkeley School of Information (I School) that explores the interaction between technical design and values including privacy, accessibility, fairness, and freedom of expression. The course draws on a wide range of literature, including science and technology studies, computer science, law, and ethics, as well as primary sources in policy, standards, and source code. It will equip students to identify the value implications of technical designs and to understand some of the tools and methods for intentionally building values into technology at the outset. The course will offer hands-on opportunities to experiment with designing technology alternatives that address rights and values. The course is not cross-listed, but, with some administrative hoop-jumping, JD students can receive credit for the course.
Course Info can be found here>>.
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Research Assistant & Social Media Intern Positions
Authors Alliance has a couple of student positions open, one of which they'd love to fill with a Berkeley Law student.
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Law and Policy Internship
The ACLU of Northern California invites applications for Fall 2016 internships for law and graduate students in the Legal-Policy Department. Applications are being accepted for internships in the following areas: Litigation, Technology & Civil Liberties, Reproductive Justice, and Criminal Justice & Drug Policy.
Details about the internship program and application instructions are available on the ACLU-NC website here>>.
Students willing to work with intensity and focus will find an internship at the ACLU-NC a rewarding learning experience. Qualified applicants are enthusiastic, creative, and detail-oriented; have excellent research, writing, and oral communication skills; and, can articulate a commitment to work for social justice and the ideals of the ACLU.
School year internships are full- or part-time, generally requiring a 16 – 24 hours per week commitment. Students on the semester system must be able to commit to working 12 – 14 weeks. Students on the quarter system can serve shorter quarter-long internships. We greatly prefer that part-time interns commit to work full work days (i.e., two eight-hour days rather than four four-hour days) and recommend that students commit as many days a week as possible for the best internship experience. Semester interns earn academic credit as determined by their law schools. Work-study funding may be available.
Applications must include the following:
(1) Cover Letter that includes a statement about (a) which internship you are applying for, (b) why you want to work on that issue at the ACLU-NC, and (c) how you encountered the internship opening
(2) Resume
(3) Writing Sample
(4) List of References with contact information.
Submit Fall 2016 applications via email to aclunc-clnc0995@applications.recruiterbox.com
All applications may alternatively be submitted via U.S. mail to ACLU of Northern California, ATTN: Legal-Policy Department Internships, 39 Drumm Street, San Francisco, CA 94111.
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Get involved with boalt.org!
We welcome anyone who would like to be more involved with boalt.org. If you are interested in being involved in promoting public interest technology at Berkeley then get in touch. We still have the budget for a couple more events this semester and look forward to getting more things organized for next semester. Membership with boalt.org satisfies the technology law certification requirements. There has been growing interest and we hope to collaborate with a number of tech/design/data/privacy/hacker groups at the law school and across campus.
If you have ideas or want to get more involved then shoot us an email at info@boalt.org and please visit our website».
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