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COMPLETE VOLUME 33, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Is Design Patent Examination Too Lax? by Sarah Burstein Copyright Rulemaking: Past as Prologue by Joseph P. Liu Beware the Trademark Echo Chamber: Why Federal Courts Should Not Defer to USPTO Decisions by Deborah R. Gerhardt Scholarly Concerns ...

1st Prize: $1,000 and Publication in the Spring 2020 Issue of BTLJ* 2nd Prize: $500 Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission: $250 Topics: We will accept submissions from graduate-level law students on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not ...

In this episode, we talk to Berkeley Law professor Peter Menell about patent law and new challenges to patent eligibility. Professor Menell discusses the effects of recent Supreme Court decisions and new calls for legislative action to address patent eligibility.

Today we’re welcoming Sean Brooks and Steve Trush to the show. Sean Brooks is the Director and Steve Trush is the Deputy Director of the Citizen Clinic, a public-interest cybersecurity clinic here at UC Berkeley. Established in 2015, the clinic supports politically-vulnerable organizations’ efforts to defend themselves against online threats ...

The BTLJ Podcast team presents 2 minutes in Tech: Monday, November 12.

The Berkeley Technology and Law Journal Podcast interviews Brian Israel, General Counsel of Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company. Brian is an expert in space law, and talks about his work managing the US State Department’s space portfolio as well as space law in private industry.

COMPLETE VOLUME 33, ISSUE 2 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier by Christine L. Borgman Patent Litigation in China: Challenging Conventional Wisdom by Renjun Bian Trust, but Verify: Why the Blockchain Needs the Law by Kevin Werbach Final ...

Christian F. Chessman, 2017–2018 Editor-in-Chief This is the inaugural post in an annual series to be published by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of BTLJ reviewing the past year’s triumphs, tribulations, and accomplishments. The Year in Review is designed to honor the hard work done by the BTLJ team, to recognize the excellence ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Information Fiduciaries in Practice: Data Privacy and User Expectations by Ariel Dobkin Computer-Aided Destruction: Regulating 3D-Printed Firearms Without Infringing on Individual Liberties by Jessica Berkowitz IP Privateering in the Markets for Desktop and Mobile Operating Systems by Daniel ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Introduction: Antitrust, Standard Essential Patents, and the Fallacy of the Anticommons Tragedy: Legal and Industrial Policy Concerns by Sohvi Leih & David J. Teece Has the Academy Led Patent Law Astray? by Jonathan M. Barnett Why Incentives for ...