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Professor Colleen Chien on Patents, Equity, and Racial Justice
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- Berkeley Law Voices Carry
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- Dec 7, 2023
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Summary
In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professor Colleen Chien ’02, a cross-disciplinary scholar whose research spans innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system. She’s just joined the Berkeley Law faculty — the ninth hire for the school this year. Chien is a Berkeley Law alumna and studies a wide range of topics, including innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system. A faculty co-director of our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology , she also founded and directs two grant-funded research initiatives: the Innovator Diversity Pilots Initiative , which develops rigorous evidence to boost inclusion in innovation, and the Paper Prisons Initiative , which conducts research to address and advance economic and racial justice. She was a member of the Biden-Harris transition team and has worked as a senior advisor on IP issues in the Obama White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she currently serves as a Marion Croak Distinguished Scholar. Click here to read more about Professor Chien and her work. Here are a few of her many publications if you’d like to dive even deeper: Improving Equity in Patent Inventorship America's Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap The Inequalities of Innovation Rigorous Policy Pilots: Experimentation in the Administration of Patent Law About: “Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in the Berkeley Law Communications Office about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are making an impact — in California, across the country, and around the world — through pathbreaking scholarship, hands-on legal training, and advocacy. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. Full transcript of this e…