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Over its 25+ year history, BCLT has been at the center of tech and IP legal education—for both students and practitioners. Our program now encompasses 18 professors, almost 40 practitioner lecturers, 50 tech classes, and 13 tech-focused student groups. BCLT has delivered thousands of hours of advanced CLE content. Wayne Stacy And most importantly, for the past two Executive Director, BCLT decades, it has helped law students kick off their tech legal careers. BCLT has always been funded through sponsorships from a broad swath of the legal community. The number and variety of these sponsors is staggering. Law firms, corporations, and individuals have generously shared their time and their sponsorship dollars. In return, we invest those gifts back into both the student community and the practitioner community. And now we are focusing on giving back to the in-house community. This year, we are making a major investment to expand our support of in-house lawyers. We are rolling out a first-of-itskind, on demand virtual CLE program focused on tech and IP. Working closely with the industry’s leading attorneys,
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we are developing highly-focused, advanced legal content that we will share with our corporate sponsors. We are also working with in-house attorneys to develop bespoke CLE programs addressing their unique needs. And because we understand that in-house attorneys are often priced out of meaningful CLE opportunities, we are making our webcasts and on demand material available at no charge to our corporate sponsors. As the nation’s #1 Tech & IP program, it is our obligation to both develop and broadly share tech-related legal knowledge. We hope that you and your team will join us in this mission. Please reach out to me at wayne.stacy@ berkeley.edu if you are interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2022-23 academic year.
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IP AND ANTITRUST It is no accident that the nation’s #1 ranked IP program sits in the world’s most storied innovation hub, the San Francisco Bay Area. For over 25 years, BCLT and its faculty co-directors have brought leading academics and the nation’s top innovators together to explore IP law, its impacts on innovation, its impacts on society, and its future direction.
This collaboration has not only resulted in leading scholarship—it also has created an unmatched educational environment for students. The current course catalog contains dozens of courses focused on core IP topics. Students can take the critical foundational IP courses from the nation’s leading faculty. In many cases, students will get to take courses directly from their casebook’s author.
Students can also select from many highly-specialized IP courses that are taught by practitioner-lecturers drawn from the Bay Area’s top law firms and companies. Students leave Berkeley Law ready to practice IP law and ready to adapt to inevitable changes in IP law.
PRIVACY, CYBERSECURITY, AND CONTENT REGULATION Companies and innovators in the San Francisco Bay Area continue to raise new legal questions about privacy and cybersecurity. And California privacy laws have been a model for the world. With that kind of local backdrop, Berkeley Law and the BCLT faculty co-directors have established
themselves as the go-to experts on government surveillance. Our privacy and cybersecurity topics. research has played a major role in the development of privacy and Our faculty includes internationally- cybersecurity regulations worldwide. recognized data experts with Berkeley Law students have the concentrations spanning comparative opportunity to immerse themselves privacy law, consumer privacy, in over a dozen classes focused on computer crime, and the law of privacy and cybersecurity issues.
TECHNOLOGY, DISRUPTION, AND SOCIAL IMPACT Rapid innovation—whether it be in high tech or biotech—creates legal issues unimagined just a few years ago. BCLT faculty co-directors are leading the examination of these emerging legal issues and have established themselves as the nation’s foremost experts on the impact of technology on both society 6 | Sponsorship 2022-2023
and individuals. They study a diverse range of topics, including government use of surveillance, regulation of internet platforms, forensic science in criminal prosecutions, technology regulations impacting the First Amendment, and the intersection of law and medicine.
Students have access to over a dozen courses that explore technology’s impact on us all. Students also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with these societal-impact issues by participating in innovative clinics like the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic.
DATA SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Innovation in the IT field continues to create new and important legal issues. BCLT’s faculty co-directors have established themselves as leading thinkers on today’s most pressing IT and data
science legal issues, including blockchain, FinTech, AI, social media, video games, and computer crimes. With the opportunity to select from 15 IT-focused classes,
students can explore how IT and data science impact regulatory policy, criminal investigations, and business transactions.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEW MEDIA Technology has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital content. The laws around music, TV and film, sports, social media, and video games are evolving at an incredible rate. And Berkeley Law has claimed a leadership role in both research and education within these areas.
Our faculty are turning out leading research on media-related IP protection, Internet Service Provider liability, network neutrality, and social media regulation.
game law, Hollywood contracts, and sports law contracts. And with access to our practitioner-lecturers, students are exposed to the latest development within this rapidly changing area of law.
Our students can choose from a dozen innovative courses focused on social media, music law, video
LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTH TECHNOLOGY The Bay Area life sciences ecosystem has already emerged as a world leader in this rapidly expanding field. Berkeley Law and BCLT are uniquely positioned to provide the legal scholarship and training needed both to support the
life sciences industry and to funding from Genentech, Gilead, address its impact on society. Vern Norviel, Wilson Sonsini, and Weil Gotshal, BCLT is Berkeley Law already offers expanding its existing focus on innovative classes including life sciences with a new Director Biotechnology Law, Bioethics, of Life Sciences, new classes, and Topics in Pharmaceutical additional professors, and Policy. Now, with generous additional practitioner-lecturers. Sponsorship 2022-2023 | 7
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Welcome to B-CLE: A New Content Creation Experience
Differentiation and demonstration of expertise: these are the keys to building a legal brand. But in-person panels with multiple talking heads from multiple firms do not provide differentiation or a chance to demonstrate expertise. Your message gets watered down and then disappears as soon as the conference is over. Our new B-CLE platform and educational approach fixes these shortcomings. We work closely with your team to create unique, advanced programs that are tailored for today’s virtual audience. And because we are a public university focused on distribution of legal knowledge, we provide these programs free of charge to everyone, everywhere, giving you and your expertise the broadest possible audience. Your programming continues to live on our CLE platform and will be available for you to share (for CLE credit) with your invited guests. Berkeley will also share your content with alumni, sponsors, student groups, and government employees, all while offering CLE credit. 12 | Sponsorship 2022-2023
Unique Opportunities to Showcase Expertise
Antitrust & Regulatory • Anti-counterfeiting • Asia and IP regulation • Antitrust counseling • Antitrust litigation • Antitrust and IP • Automotive technologies
Product Development • Asia and product development
• Art and cultural property
• Design patent protection
• Asia and content regulation
• Hatch-Waxman litigation
• Clean room development
• International Trade Commission/Section 337
• Blockchain/tokenization
• Land use and environmental issues
• Europe and IP regulation
• Licensing and sourcing
• Export controls
• Life sciences IP litigation
• Fintech regulation
• Life sciences patent prosecution
• Healthcare and life sciences regulations • Internet platform regulation • Patent pools and aggregators • Product compliance
Content Development & Platforms
• Outsourcing • Patent litigation • Patent prosecution • PTAB litigation • Standard Essential Patents
• Content in-licensing • Content out-licensing • Copyright litigation • Copyright protection • Content regulation • Digital healthcare • Digital media • DMCA and safe harbors • eCommerce • IP audits • Secondary-liability • Social media
Privacy & Cybersecurity
Technology & Society
Brand Protection
• Algorithmic bias
• AI regulation
• Anti-counterfeiting
• AI data set management
• Algorithmic bias and online discrimination
• Brand enforcement
• California privacy law • Cloud computing • Commercial transactions and diligence • Computer Fraud and Abuse Act • Cybersecurity and breach incidents • Cybersecurity insurance recovery • Digital healthcare • Digital payments • Global compliance programs • GDPR
• Antitrust and big tech • Biotech regulation • Broadband availability • Expanding innovation • Internet platform regulation • Online content regulation • Open government initiatives • Social impact, criminal law and technology • Surveillance technology regulation • White collar tech-related crimes
• Brand selection and clearance • Customs and Border Patrol seizures • Domain names • False advertisement • International border seizures • Licensing • Opposition practice • Pharma and medtech branding • Sponsorships and endorsements • Trade dress and nontraditional marks • Trademark litigation
• Tech patent prosecution
• Video games
• Trademark prosecution
• Trade secret litigation
• Virtual and augmented reality
• TTAB litigation
• Trade secret protection
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Asia IP & Technology Law Project Now entering its fourth year, the Asia IP & Technology Law Project continues to offer a unique forum for Asian and American companies, law firms, academics, trade associations, and government officials to learn about developments in IP law on both sides of the Pacific, exchange views, and develop deeper knowledge on issues of common concern. The project brings data-driven insight into the complex IP landscape in China and other Asian venues.
Important and insightful research and scholarship has emerged from the Asia IP Project, including the following published and forthcoming work: • Robert Merges, Intellectual Property Strategy for Business 2020 • Hao Yuan, Through the Anti-Monopoly Lens: What Constitutes ‘Unfairly High Patent Pricing’ in China? GRUR International, August, 2020 • Mark Cohen and Philip Rogers, When Sino-American Struggle Disrupts the Supply Chain: Licensing Intellectual Property in a Changing Trade Environment, 20 WORLD TRADE REV. 238 (2020) • Mark Cohen, The Criminal Bias in U.S. Intellectual Property Diplomacy, Nat’l Bureau Asian Res. (July 22, 2021) • Mark Cohen and Vivienne Bath, Anti-Suit Injunctions in the 5G and lot Ecosystem (Sean O’Connor ed., forthcoming 2022) • Mark Cohen and Qi Quanyi, Transnational Legal Ethics (U.S./China), 5 China L. & Soc’y Rev. (forthcoming 2023) Speakers and attendees have included: • Former California Gov. Jerry Brown • Former USPTO Directors David Kappos and Andrei Iancu • Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd • Current and former U.S. judges and judges from China’s Supreme People’s Court • Senior WIPO, WTO, and U.S. government officials Future planned programs: • SEP Series, Prof. Hao Yuan • 2nd IP Certificate Program, with a focus on enforcement • 4th Transnational IP Litigation with Tsinghua Law School • 4th Tech, Trade and China Symposium • IP Damages in International Trade with Sunwater Institute
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Yuan Hao Senior Fellow
Life Sciences Project The newly-launched Life Sciences Project will offer a unique forum for life sciences companies to explore IP, innovation, and regulatory issues. In addition to creating a community for life sciences attorneys to discuss current topics, the Life Sciences Project will support research related to patent protection for drug innovations, bioethics, FDA regulations, AI and healthcare data, and health-data privacy regulations. The Life Sciences Project will work closely with the Asia IP Project to explore international pharmaceutical development.
INTRODUCING OUR NEW DIRECTOR Allison Schmitt JD’15 returns to Berkeley Law to serve as the first Director of the new BCLT Life Sciences Project. She brings tremendous expertise, experience, and energy to this exciting initiative. Prior to law school, Allison earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Duke University, where she focused on bioorganic chemistry and physical biochemistry. While at Duke, Allison participated in the Pharmacology Scientist Training Program and was awarded the Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Allison then came to Berkeley Law, where she focused her energy on intellectual property and life sciences legal issues. Upon graduating Allison clerked for the Honorable Stanley R. Chesler in the District of New Jersey, where she worked extensively on ANDA cases. She then clerked for the Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit, where she further honed her knowledge of bio-pharma law and case management. She then spent several years in private practice focusing on life sciences patent litigation, patent counseling, and policy matters.
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• Unlimited access to tech & IP webcasts and on-demand CLE
CLE and Attorney Development
• Opportunities to develop bespoke tech & IP CLE programming • Professional-development opportunities for your teams • Opportunity to participate in curated roundtables on tech & IP policy
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IP & Tech Academy
How do mid-levels get high-end external training and networking opportunities? Firms and firm budgets typically don’t support sending mid-levels to expensive in-person conferences. And that is the problem. Mid-levels and the connections they forge at this stage are critical for future client development. And because the mid-level ranks are among the most diverse within the legal industry, the lack of training and networking opportunities also has a negative impact on diversity. The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is changing that dynamic. To support mid-level attorneys in the IP and tech fields, BCLT is launching an in-person, annual training academy. This conference will be designed by and for mid-level attorneys— drawing equally from in-house legal departments and law firms. To remove access barriers, BCLT will underwrite tuition costs for mid-level attorneys from sponsor corporations and sponsor law firms. BCLT will also underwrite tuition costs for attorneys— from smaller firms or minority-owned firms—nominated by a corporate sponsor. 18 | Sponsorship 2022-2023
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B-CLE Program Categories • Asia IP • Computer & Internet Law • Copyright Law • Criminal Law & Tech • Entertainment Law • FinTech • Life Sciences • Privacy & Cyber Security • Patent Prosecution • Patent Litigation • Telecommunications Law • Trademark Law • Trade Secret Law • Transactional & Business Law
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Corporate Sponsorships: A Snapshot
Unlimited access to tech & IP webcasts and on-demand CLE—at no charge Opportunities to develop bespoke tech & IP CLE programming Professional-development opportunities for your teams
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Berkeley Center for Law & Technology University of California, Berkeley School of Law 421 Law Building Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 Tel 510.643.4800 Email: bclt@law.berkeley.edu For sponsorship inquiries, contact Wayne Stacy at stacywo@berkeley.edu Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/berkeley-center-for-law-technology
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