Colleen V. Chien

Colleen V. Chien is an American attorney and academic working as a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she teaches Patent Law, International Intellectual Property and Remedies. From 2013 to 2015, she served as a senior advisor for intellectual property and innovation to Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer,[1] in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She has also worked as an attorney at the Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West and as an investigative journalist with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar.[2]

Colleen V. Chien
Born (1973-09-10) September 10, 1973
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationStanford University (BS, AB)
University of California, Berkeley (JD)
OccupationLaw Professor
EmployerSanta Clara University School of Law

Early life and education

Chien was born in Hartford, Connecticut to immigrant parents from Taiwan.[3] She earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Stanford University, followed by a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law.[4]

Career

Chien is best known for her patent scholarship, especially her work on patent “trolls” or patent assertion entities (PAEs). She coined the term PAE in a 2010 law review article,[5] and many lawmakers subsequently adopted the term.[6] She has published empirical studies on how patent litigation impacts startups[7] and venture capitalists,[8] and she has been a vocal proponent of reforming the patent system.[9]

In 2020, Chien was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the Department of Commerce.[10]

Awards

In 2017, the American Law Institute awarded her the "Young Scholar Medal," given every-other-year to "one or two outstanding early-career law professors."[11] ALI said:

Her work on patent assertion business models - which rely on the use of patents to extract money from others rather than commercialize technology - has been the basis of studies and policy initiatives by the White House, the Federal Trade Commission, and Congress (in the America Invents Act), and the term has been referred to thousands of times by academic and news sources. Policy recommendations that she and her co-authors, in law review articles and other fora, have made have been adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Congressional bills, at the US Patent and Trade Office, and by 32 states.

Other recognition she has received:

  • In 2017, the California State Bar's IP Section designated her as an "IP Vanguard" (in the academic category).[12]
  • In 2013, Managing Intellectual Property magazine named her one of the "Top 50 IP Thought Leaders in the World"[13] and said that her work has "led the debate in the US [on patent trolls] and been behind many of the recent proposals for reform."
  • In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Eric Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award by the Board of the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF)[14]
  • In 2013, she was named a Silicon Valley “Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal,[15] which called her "one of the most quotable and frequently consulted commentators on the patent system" and said she is "a leader in the national community of intellectual property scholars."

References
  1. Santa Clara Law Prof. Colleen Chien Joins White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, SCU, Sept. 13, 2013
  2. Colleen Chien Biography, Santa Clara University School of Law
  3. http://www.worldjournal.com/4861400/article-%E8%8F%AF%E8%A3%94%E9%8C%A2%E7%82%BA%E5%BE%B7-%E7%8D%B2%E5%B9%B4%E8%BC%95%E5%AD%B8%E8%80%85%E7%8D%8E/
  4. "Colleen V. Chien". Santa Clara Law. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  5. From Arms Race to Marketplace: The New Complex Patent Ecosystem and Its Implications for the Patent System, Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 62, p. 297, December 2010
  6. FTC-DOJ “Patent Assertion Entities” Workshop, December 10, 2012; Executive Office of the President, Patent Assertion and U.S. Innovation White Paper, June 2013; Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 35 U.S. Code, sec. 34 (2012).
  7. Startups and Patent Trolls, Stanford Technology Law Review (2013)
  8. Patent Assertion and Startup Innovation Archived 2013-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, New America Foundation, Sept. 2013
  9. Colleen Chien and Mark Lemley, Patents and the Public Interest, New York Times, December 13, 2011; Randall Rader, Colleen Chien and David Hricik, Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court, New York Times, June 4, 2013.
  10. "Agency Review Teams". President-Elect Joe Biden. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2017-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "The State Bar of California". www.calbar.ca.gov.
  13. "Top 50: Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University Law School". Managing Intellectual Property.
  14. "Professor Colleen Chien Awarded CAPALF Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award". Santa Clara Law. February 11, 2013.
  15. Women of Influence: Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley Business Journal, April 5, 2013.
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