Professor Colleen Chien is nationally known for her research and publications surrounding domestic and international patent law and policy issues. Her work has been cited by the FTC and in Congress. She has testified before the DOJ/FTC/PTO on patent issues, frequently lectures at national law conferences and has published several in-depth empirical studies, including of patent litigation, patent amicus briefs, non-practicing entities (NPE), and the secondary market for patents. She is an expert on the International Trade Commission (ITC), a topic on which she has authored several articles and co-authors a practice guide, The Section 337 Patent Investigation Management Guide.

Prior to joining the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 2007, Professor Chien prosecuted patents at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco, as an associate and then Special Counsel. She also served as an advisor to the School of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, worked as a spacecraft engineer at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab, and was an investigative journalist at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar. She lives in the east bay with her husband and their two sons.

Fellow, Stanford School of Law Center for Law and the Biosciences, 2006

• Patent Prosecution
• IP Counseling
• International Property Law