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On Friday, the Ninth Circuit clarified its test for determining whether a software purchaser is a licensee or an owner of the purchased copy in Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc. The result affirms the ability of software publishers to restrain licensees’ ability to sell, rent, or otherwise transfer their copies, but ...

Hello, and welcome to The Bolt, BTLJ’s new student-run technology law blog! As the 25th anniversary of our Journal’s first issue draws near, we decided that it was time to turn a new page in our history. From the beginning, we’ve worked to be a leading source of technology law ...

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, in conjunction with the High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University Law School and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, will host a two-day conference on April 9–10, 2010 to explore the past and future of copyright law. The event features an outstanding ...

Complete Volume 25, Symposium 2010 Complete Volume (PDF 14,357KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 80KB) Articles Happy Birthday Statute of Anne: The Dance between the Courts and Congress (PDF 245KB) by M. Margaret McKeown The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform (PDF 329KB) by Pamela Samuelson, Members of the CPP The Untold ...

Complete Volume 25, Annual Review 2010 Complete Volume (PDF 5,925KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 198KB) Articles Foreword (PDF 132KB) by Vivian I. Kim & Stephen M. Ullmer Patent Law A Nail in the Coffin for Gene Patents (PDF 169KB) by Joanne Kwan A Matter of Opinion: Opinions of Counsel ...

Complete Volume 25, Issue 4 Complete Volume (PDF 4,209KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 75KB) Articles Data Sharing, Latency Variables, and Science Commons (PDF 640KB) by Jorge L. Contreras Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making (PDF 175KB) by Dennis Crouch, Robert P. Merges Patent Law’s Parsimony Principle (PDF ...

Complete Volume 25, Issue 2 Complete Volume (PDF 4,337KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 76KB) Articles Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework (PDF 1,374KB) by Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, Steven C. Carlson Communications Privacy in the Military (PDF 623KB) by Justin Holbrook The Imperfect is ...

Complete Volume 24, Symposium 2009 Complete Volume (PDF 3,528KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 184KB) Articles How a Bill Becomes a Law, Really (PDF 206KB) by Joseph Simitian Government Data Breaches (PDF 568KB) by A. Michael Froomkin Privacy Costs and Personal Data Protection: Economic and Legal Perspectives (PDF 516KB) by Sasha Romanosky, Alessandro ...

Complete Volume 24, Annual Review 2009 Complete Volume (PDF 6,086KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 128KB) Articles Foreword (PDF 94KB) by Tamar R. Gubins, Danny Prati Patent Law The Exhaustion Doctrine Revived? Assessing the Scope and Possible Effects of the Supreme Court’s Quanta Decision (PDF 371KB) by Andrew T. Dufresne The Board ...

Complete Volume 24, Issue 4 Complete Volume (PDF 6,168KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 91KB) Articles High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey (PDF 933KB) by Stuart J.H. Graham, Robert P. Merges, Pam Samuelson, Ted Sichelman Controlling the “Plague”: Reforming the Doctrine of ...