The Asia IP & Competition Law Center offers a unique forum for Asian and American companies, law firms, academics, trade associations, and government officials to learn about developments in IP law on both sides of the Pacific, exchange views, and develop deeper knowledge on issues of common concern.
Its workshops, conferences, and other events bring data-driven insight into the complex IP landscape in China and other Asian venues. To provide a comparative perspective on these issues, the Asia IP & Competion Law Center and the IP & Competition Center closely work together.
We host and sponsor academic-focused events and industry-focused events–most of which are open to the public at no charge. Check out our upcoming events. As for past events, many of them are available on-demand–and free of charge–in our video library, B-CLE.
Thank you to our Annual Sponsors!
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Faculty
Robert P. Merges, co-director, is Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Advanced Degree Programs and Global Engagement. He is the author of Justifying Intellectual Property, published by Harvard University Press in 2011. A comprehensive statement of mature views on the ethical and economic foundations of IP law, the book reviews foundational philosophical theories of property and contemporary theories about distributive justice and applies them to IP; identifies operational high-level principles of IP law; and, with all this as background, works through several pressing problems facing IP law today. Professor Merges also has undertaken extensive revisions to two of the casebooks he coauthors, to update them in light of the America Invents Act. Publications, courses, and more »
Fellows
Dr. Yuan Hao is a senior fellow / co-director of the newly established Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center (BAIC) at BCLT. Yuan’s research interests are focused on two areas: (1) IP’s specific role in facilitating human creativity in an AI-powered age; and (2) IP’s specific role in the growth of private ordering and innovation eco-system in the shadow of an authoritarian government. For the former interest, Yuan is co-teaching a brand-new course titled IP and Human Creativity in an “AI Age” starting in the autumn of 2023, and her very recent article of The Rise of Centaur Inventors has been published in the Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. 104, Jan. 2024). In 2024-2025, Yuan is also hosting a global talk series on generative AI and human creativity. Regarding the latter interest, Yuan’s research is currently focused on the evolving landscape of standard essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation, as well as the curious interplay of patent and antitrust in China.
Before Yuan joined Berkeley, she taught patent law and anti-monopoly law in the School of Law at Tsinghua University. As an influential academic, Yuan advised key IP and anti-monopoly legislation projects in China. She also participated in a dozen litigation, administrative investigation, and arbitration cases, including a major SEP antitrust investigation proceeding, as a panel member or expert witness. In 2018, Yuan was listed as an arbitrator in the International Arbitration Center in Tokyo (IACT), which aims to specialize in SEP-related arbitrations.
Yuan received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (2011), Ph.D. in Nano-electronics from Penn State University (2006), and B.S. in Physics from Peking University (1999).