Startup Legal Garage Celebrates Nobel for Jennifer A. Doudna
The year was 2012. Few if any specialists outside of scientific labs knew what CRISPR stood for, let alone what the technology could do. But a small, select group of UC…
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Patent Database Exposes Pharma’s Pricey “Evergreen” Strategy
AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Gilead lead a crowded field of drug makers who excessively extend patent protections to limit the market entry of competing…
Robin Feldman Launches Pandemic Research Project
The UC Hastings Center for Innovation has launched a COVID-19 research project to study how information, especially regarding health care, flows during times of pandemic,…
Robin Feldman Pens Washington Post Op-Ed on Vaccine and Drug Pricing
Professor Robin Feldman published an op-ed in the Washington Post in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s comment that he couldn’t promise…
C4i Issues Presidential Advisory Memo on Health Care Policy
Americans have ranked health care as one of the issues most important to them. To help the 2020 presidential candidates shape their policies, the nonpartisan…
C4i Presidential Advisory Memo: Recent Evidence in Health Care Policy
Date: February 2020 To: 2020 Presidential Campaigns From: Robin Feldman, Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Innovation (C4i)…
The World Comes to UC Hastings
UC Hastings has long been a magnet for scholars, students, and practicing attorneys from throughout the world. In the past decade, one key reason for…
Inside Big Pharma
Treatments for hemophilia could soon top $1.5 million a year. A drug for childhood leukemia recently debuted with a price tag of $475,000. Prescription drug…
UC Hastings Law Professor Lefstin Testifies Before Senate on U.S. Patent Eligibility
UC Hastings Law Professor and Associate Academic Dean Jeffrey Lefstin testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property this week about…
UC Hastings Law Fuels Academic Innovation with Five New Centers
UC Hastings College of the Law inaugurated a handful of new programmatic centers this fall, each designed to provide innovative educational opportunities as well as…
Augie Rakow ’07 launches Atrium in SF to support tech startups and investors.
Augie Rakow ’07 was a partner representing startups at Orrick when a Facebook post changed his career. In January 2017, he saw that Justin Kan,…
Shadowy World of Drug Pricing-An Inside Look
New research by University of California Hastings Law Professor Robin Feldman shines light on the highly secretive world of drug prices, including hidden payments, rebates, and inducements that drive the system toward higher-priced drugs.