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> BCLT has a new co-sponsored journal on SSRN: Information Privacy Law!
> BCLT news page updates! (8/29)
BTLJ/BCLT Fall Receptions
Please join attorneys from top law firms for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres to informally discuss their practice in high technology and intellectual property law. All Boalt students are welcome to attend.
Tuesday, September 9
5:30 to 7 pm ~ Donor Lobby
Fenwick & West LLP
Wednesday, September 10
5:30 to 7 pm ~ Donor Lobby
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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Lunch Speaker Series
Come listen to top attorneys discuss cutting-edge trends and developments in IP and high technology. Lunch will be served for those staying for the entire presentation. All Berkeley Law students are welcome to attend.
Tuesday, September 9
12:45 - 1:45 ~ Room 105
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Carrie LeRoy ~ Patent Licensing
12:45 - 1:45 ~ Room 105
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
with Bill Hughes, Dawn Belt, Liwen Mah, Catherine Kevane, and Eric Ball
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Position Available:
Faculty Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
The University Of California, Berkeley, School of Law seeks applicants for a full-time clinical professor of law to serve as the Director of the School’s Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic.
The Samuelson Clinic was established to provide clinical training for students with cases and other projects involving public interest issues raised by new technologies. The Clinic represents consumers and nonprofit groups in intellectual property, communications policy, Internet free speech, and information privacy and security matters. The Clinic promotes a public interest law and technology practice and is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology whose Directors are among the leading scholars in their fields as well as the Center for Clinical Education.
To read the full description and application instructions please click here.
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New Robert Barr Scholarship Honors BCLT's Executive Director Robert Barr's far-reaching impact on Berkeley Law and the intellectual property field will be honored in perpetuity through a newly created scholarship in his name. Three former co-workers of Barr, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT), have raised nearly $300,000 from 34 donors. Each year, the scholarship will be awarded to a student who has demonstrated financial need and a strong interest in technology law. The recipient will receive $10,000 per academic year, and engage in specialized studies with Barr and other prominent IP scholars at the school. |
For more information about the scholarship please click here.
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Fall 2008 Class List Now Online
Antitrust & IP
Crime & Technology
Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar
Intellectual Property Strategy
Intellectual Property Transactions
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Law & Technology Writing Workshop
Patent Law
Patent Litigation: Claim Construction and Discovery
Playing by the Rules: Video Games and the Law
Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Seminar
Software Law & Transactions
Wine Law
World Trade Law
Click here for all Law & Tech course information.
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UC Berkeley Schoool of Law #1 in IP for 11th Year
US News and World report has ranked the Intellectual Property program at UC Berkeley School of Law as the top IP program in the country -- for the 11th year in a row.
UC Berkeley Law & Technology eNewsletter
The second issue includes information on new Boalt Faculty and Visiting Scholars, a special focus on Privacy work at BCLT , upcoming events, and student Stem Cell Fellows.
The first issue on Copyright is archived here.
To subscribe to future editions click the lower, right-hand button on this page.
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Latest BCLT Faculty Research
Amy Kapczynski
The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property Law, 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 262 (2008).
Peter S. Menell
Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (with L. Pasahow, J. Pooley, and M. Powers), Federal Judicial Center (forthcoming 2008).
Robert Merges
An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards (with J. Kuhn), California Law Revew (forthcoming 2008).
Deirdre Mulligan
Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport (with M. Meingast, and J. King), In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID (March 2007).
Pamela Samuelson
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Fair Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works (with J. Reichman and G. Dinwoodie), 22 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 981 (2007).
Paul Schwartz
Reviving Telecommunications Surveillance Law, 75 University of Chicago Law Review 287 (2008).
Howard Shelanski
Merger Analysis and the Treatment of Uncertainty: Should we Expect Better? (with M. Katz), Antitrust L.J. (2007).
Molly Van Houweling
The New Servitudes, Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2008).
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BCLT 2007 - 2008 Annual Bulletin
The current Annual Bulletin outlines BCLT's activities from August 2007 through July 2008. It also welcomes new Berkeley law faculty member Assistant Professor Amy Kapczynski and updates BCLT's current faculty research.
An archive of Annual Bulletins from 2001 through the current year is available here.
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Boalt Hall Transcript ~ Spring 2008
The most recent issue of the Boalt Transcript has a number of interesting articles law & technology articles. The "law & tech edit" can be downloaded here and contains articles on patent reform, cyber security, idenitity fraud, and electronic voting. .
The Spring 2007 Law & Tech news edit features articles on on "Patent Trolls," Boalt Hall courses, and law blogs is here. (pdf)
