Berkeley Technology Law Journal, established in 1985, is America’s first technology law journal. BTLJ publishes four issues annually on a broad range of topics at the intersection of technology and the law.
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February 5th, 2025
COMPLETE VOLUME 39, ISSUE 4 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Foreword by Zhudi Huang And Jelena Laketić IPR Estoppel (& “Estoppel-Like”) Provisions: Balancing Patent Quality and Quiet Title by Weijia (“Nina”) Zhang Patent Enablement After Amgen v. Sanofi by John Moore Beyond Appropriation Art and Algorithms: Examining the ...
BTLJ Blog
January 31st, 2025
By Sauntharya Manikandan, J.D. Candidate, 2026 Overview On January 17, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act also known as the TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law. This law grants the federal government the authority to shut down TikTok unless ByteDance, its China-based parent ...
News & Updates
January 30th, 2025
About the Competition The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is soliciting entries for our annual student writing competition. It is highly competitive. The first-place winner will work with BTLJ’s editors in the fall to prepare the article for publication in Volume 41, Issue 1. Previous winners have written about discriminatory data ...
BTLJ Blog
January 24th, 2025
By Gaurav Lalsinghani, J.D. Candidate, 2025 No one wants to be left holding the bag after a break-in, but for chief information security officers (CISOs), the risk of liability is ever-present. Tasked with overseeing a firm’s cybersecurity posture, CISOs stand on the front lines of a corporation’s digital defense. They ...
BTLJ Blog
January 17th, 2025
By Sauntharya Manikandan, J.D. Candidate, 2026 Overview On May 17, 2024, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) took a step towards addressing the intersection of technology and employment with its proposed modifications to employment regulations concerning automated decision systems. This initiative is indicative of lawmakers racing to catch up with ...
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January 14th, 2025
[Meg O’Neill] 00:08 Hello and a warm welcome to all our listeners tuning in to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal podcast. My name is Meg O’Neill, and I’m one of the editors at the podcast. In today’s episode, we dive into the contentious world of content moderation on the internet. ...
BTLJ Blog
January 12th, 2025
By Grace Murphy, J.D. Candidate, 2026 Genome sequencing, the process of determining the DNA sequence of an organism, was first introduced in the 1970s. By 2003, the Human Genome Project had generated the first human genome sequence. Since then, genome sequencing has become more accessible and affordable. This has allowed ...
BTLJ Blog
January 2nd, 2025
By Liam Roche, LLM 2025 Introduction On the 29th of August 2024, residents of California gained the ability to add their Driver’s licenses to Google’s Wallet platform for use on mobile devices as an alternative to presenting a physical document. A few weeks later, Apple followed suit, and enabled the capability on ...
BTLJ Blog
December 23rd, 2024
By Andreia M. Tamashiro, LLM 2025 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a NonCompete Rule designated to promote competition and employees’ rights. This rule poses a significant challenge for companies, especially startups, which may need to allocate more resources to protect their intellectual property. If the rule becomes effective, ...
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December 14th, 2024
COMPLETE VOLUME 39, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Preface: Pamela Samuelson and the Promotion of Progress by Molly Van Houweling Pam and Inspiring Technologists by Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD Second-Degree Intellectual Property by Daniel J. Gervais, PhD Pam Samuelson and the Emergence of the Technology Law ...
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