Center Scholar: Colleen Chien

Colleen Chien will publish a study of patent interest group politics, Patent Amicus Briefs: What the Courts’ Friends Can Teach us about the Patent System, in the University of California at Irvine Law Review and a paper on patent strategy and the rise of the patent marketplace, From Arms Race to Marketplace: The Complex Patent Ecosystem and Its Implications for the Patent System, in the Hastings Law Journal. Professor Chien spoke at numerous national and regional law conferences on topics including PTO Reform (Stanford), Empirical Patent Law (Northwestern), Patent Cross-Licensing (Berkeley), Clean Technology (UC Davis and Santa Clara University School of Law), and Cross-Border Patent Issues (Paris). She hosted and moderated panels during visits by Federal Circuit judges and the Solicitor of the US Patent and Trademark Office to Santa Clara Law. Finally, Professor Chien participated in a roundtable hosted by the FTC, DOJ and USPTO in late May during which her work on the ITC was featured. The program was held at the PTO and addressed the interaction between patent and competition policies as part of ongoing joint work by the agencies in this area.

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