In addition to the Journal's primary mission of publishing quality articles on the relationship between technology and the law, BTLJ has organized conferences in conjunction with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology on a variety of topics. For each conference, BTLJ produces a symposium issue, in which leading academics publish cutting edge scholarship on the issues raised at the conference.
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IP & Entrepreneurship
March 7 & 8, 2008 ~ UC Berkeley Law School
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ).
The Twelfth Annual Symposium will explore the role of intellectual property, and in particular patent law, on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.
We have invited speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including economics, law, business and other fields. We have also invited attorneys, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who have been actively involved in the information technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and green technology sectors.
At the Symposium we will also introduce BCLT's project on IP & entrepreneurship, launched this year with the generous support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We will discuss the current state of knowledge about the field of IP & entrepreneurship and our plans for empirical and theoretical research.
This symposium is also being underwritten from a generous grant by the Microsoft Corporation.
10.5 units of MCLE credit will be availble for attendees of the symposium.