University and Technology Company Partnerships (University of California, Berkeley)

Dear Mr. Nash:

This will acknowledge and respond to your Public Records Act request below.
The University regularly responds to focused and effective requests that
reasonably describe identifiable records relating to the conduct of the
public’s business. Government Code Section 6252(e), 6253.1(a).

Your records request, as currently drafted is extremely broad, and
compliance with the request would be unduly burdensome pursuant to
Government Code Section 6255. Your request would entail collection and
review of a voluminous number of documents. Please also be aware that
identification and collection of potentially responsive records is only the
first step in the Public Records Act response process. The collected
records must be reviewed to ensure that they are in fact responsive to your
request and to assess whether they are subject to redaction to protect
privacy rights and consistent with applicable legal privileges and
exemptions.

Because we would like to furnish you with a set of information that could
satisfy your needs, we would encourage you to consider narrowing the scope
or nature of the request. Although we cannot compile records in response
to your request as drafted, we would be happy to consider a request that is
more narrowly tailored in terms of time frame and subject matter, including
whose records (for example, the name of person or department, types of
agreements) you may be seeking.

Please let us know how we can assist you in focusing your request.

Regards,

Liane Ko

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University of California, Berkeley
Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services
200 California Hall, MC #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Phone: (510) 664-4615

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Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:05 AM
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Request: University and Technology
Company Partnerships (University of California, Berkeley)
To: lianeko@berkeley.edu

January 21, 2015
University of California, Berkeley
Public Records Coordinator
University of California, Berkeley
Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services
200 California Hall, MC #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500

This is a follow up to a previous request:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request,
copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 6, 2015. Please let me know
when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is
needed.

Thank you for your help.

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On Jan. 6, 2015:

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, §
3(b)), I hereby request the following records:

- Partnership agreements or memorandums of understanding between the
university and the following companies issued between 2005 and the time
this request is processed.

- Any subsequent reports issued related to those agreements or partnerships
between 2005 and the time this request is processed.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Apple Inc.
ARM Holdings
AT&T
Exxon Mobil
Facebook
Ford Motor Company
General Electric
Google
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Microsoft
Nvidia Corporation
Texas Instruments
Samsung
Qualcomm

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this
request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made
available to the general public free of charge as part of the public
information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the
news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for
commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would
inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would
prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available
or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I
look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar
days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Tom Nash

Filed via MuckRock.com
E-mail (Preferred): requests@muckrock.com

For mailed responses, please address (see note):
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 15460
PO Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819

PLEASE NOTE the new address as well as the fact that improperly addressed
(i.e., with the requester's name rather than MuckRock News) requests might
be returned by the USPS as undeliverable.

Dear Mr. Nash:

Thank you for your e-mail to narrow your records request. This will
acknowledge and respond to your Public Records Act request below.
Appropriate offices are being notified of your request. Records identified
as responsive to your request will be reviewed, and made available for your
access, in accordance with relevant law and University policy. The
estimated date of production is at least 8 weeks, which will vary
accordingly due to the nature, complexity, and/or length of the request.
Whenever possible we will provide records on a rolling basis, as they
become available. It is our practice to notify outside companies when their
records may be requested under public disclosure laws and to furnish them a
reasonable opportunity to identify information contained therein that may
constitute business proprietary information.

Although the requested records have not yet been fully gathered and
reviewed, it is possible that the requested material may contain
information exempt from disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act.
However, this is not a determination that the requested records are
necessarily exempt from disclosure. This office will provide you with a
status update after the requested records have been thoroughly reviewed.

Please note that the California Public Records Act allows agencies to make
records available “upon payment of fees covering direct costs of
duplication.” (Government Code Section 6253(b)). The charge for disclosable
records are normally provided at a cost of $0.20 per page for scanned or
paper copy, and will be sent upon receipt of payment of all
scanning/copying costs.
Regards,

Liane Ko
Public Records Coordinator

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University of California, Berkeley
Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services
200 California Hall, MC #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Phone: (510) 664-4615

Dear Mr. Nash:

As stated in our previous e-mail, the estimated date of production is at
least 8 weeks, which will vary accordingly due to the nature, complexity,
and/or length of the request.
Regards,

Liane Ko
Public Records Coordinator

******************************************
University of California, Berkeley
Office of Public Records
200 California Hall, MC #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Phone: (510) 664-4615

Dear Mr. Nash:

This is a further response to your Public Records Act request on February
3, 2015.

After a reasonable search, and to the best of our knowledge, there are no
records responsive to your records request in existence at the University. We
consider this CPRA request closed.

To submit future records requests, please contact us at pra@berkeley.edu.
Regards,

Liane Ko
Public Records Coordinator

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University of California, Berkeley
Office of Public Records
200 California Hall, MC #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Phone: (510) 664-4615