PIJIP Appoints Charles Duan Senior Policy Fellow
April 21, 2021
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Charles Duan as a Senior Policy Fellow of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP). Charles' work with PIJIP will focus on the impact of patent law on generic drug availability and scientific research, computer software copyrights, and competition and interoperability in digital markets.
He was previously director of technology and innovation policy at the R Street Institute and director of the patent reform project at Public Knowledge, where he handled all aspects of patent policy ranging from outreach on the Hill to writing white papers and filing amicus briefs. Prior to this, he was a research associate to Professor Paul Ohm on a National Science Foundation-funded project that investigated the policy implications of newly proposed internet architectures. He also worked as a patent attorney at Knobbe Martens. Charles is the author of A Five-Part Plan for Patent Reform (2014). He received his associate bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard College and his JD from Harvard Law School.