{{short description|American law professor}} {{use American English|date=May 2020}} {{use mdy dates|date = March 2020}} {{Infobox academic |name=Robin Feldman |image= Professor_Robin_Feldman.jpg |occupation=Law Professor, Author |known_for=Intellectual property, healthcare law |title=Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law |website=https://www.uchastings.edu/people/robin-feldman/ |education={{unbulleted list|Stanford University (BA), Stanford Law School}} (JD) |workplaces=UC Hastings College of Law |main_interests=intellectual property law, healthcare law with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry and drug prices, artificial intelligence }}
'''Robin Feldman''' is a law professor, researcher, and author best known for her contributions to intellectual property and health care law. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the UC Law San Francisco (formerly University of California, Hastings College of Law.)<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Robin Feldman Homepage|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/people/robin-feldman/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UC Hastings Faculty Bibliographies|work=UC Law | San Francisco |url=http://libraryweb.uchastings.edu/library/faculty-bibliographies/ |last1=Sf |first1=UC Law }}</ref> Feldman is a widely cited expert on intellectual property and health care law, particularly as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry, drug policy, and drug pricing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Drugmakers Now Masters at Rolling out Their Own Generics to Stifle Competition|url=https://khn.org/news/drugmakers-now-masters-at-rolling-out-their-own-generics-to-stifle-competition/|website=Kaiser Health News|date=August 5, 2019 }}</ref><ref name="news.bloomberglaw.com">{{cite web|title=Capsule: Get Ready for a Gilead, HHS Truvada Patent Shootout|url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/capsule-16|website=Bloomberg Law}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screen Test Killed Over Infringement Claims|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/04095117235/doctors-discover-copyright-law-cognitive-screening-test-killed-over-infringement-claims.shtml|website=TechDirt|date=December 30, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Abuse Deterrent Opioids and the Law of Unintended Consequences|url=https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/abuse-deterrent-opioids-law-unintended-consequences|website=Cato Institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Protect at All Costs: How the Maker of the World's Bestselling Drug Keeps Prices Sky-High|url=https://fortune.com/longform/abbvie-humira-drug-costs-innovation/|website=Fortune}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Who Cheated Whom? Apple v. Samsung Patent Showdown Explained|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/07/apple-v-samsung-explained/|magazine=Wired}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Human Longevity accuses its founder Craig Venter of stealing trade secrets|url=https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/human-longevity-accuses-its-founder-craig-venter-of-stealing-trade-secrets/|website=Med City News|date=July 29, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Letter to FDA on Generic Drug Access|url=https://www.consumer-action.org/downloads/coalition/LettertoFDAonGenericDrugAccess.compressed.pdf|website=Consumer Action.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Patent Assertion Entity Activity: An FTC Study|url=https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/patent-assertion-entity-activity-ftc-study/p131203_patent_assertion_entity_activity_an_ftc_study_0.pdf|website=Federal Trade Commission}}</ref>
== Education == Feldman received her undergraduate education at Stanford University in 1983.<ref name="stemCells">{{cite web|title=Stem Cells: Robin Feldman|url=https://law.stanford.edu/press/stem-cells-robin-feldman/|website=Stanford Law School}}</ref> She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1989 and was awarded the institution's honor for graduating second in her class.<ref name="stemCells" /> After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph Sneed of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Her first job in legal education was as a lecturer at Stanford Law School.<ref name="stemCells" />
== Academic career == Feldman is an expert in patent law and has been called a “preeminent researcher on issues of patent litigation”<ref>{{cite web|title=Massive Litigation Spike in Response to American Invents Act|url=https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/10/23/massive-litigation-spike-in-response-to-america-invents-act/id=45862/|website=IP Watch Dog| date=October 23, 2013 }}</ref> and a “leading voice on patent policy.”<ref>{{cite web|title=Women Leaders in Tech Law|url=https://www.law.com/therecorder/almID/1202669004114/|website=Law.com}}</ref> Her 2012 article, “The Giants Among Us,” written with Thomas Ewing and published in the ''Stanford Technology Law Review'', was widely acclaimed for its insights to patent aggregators and for its influence in the field.<ref>{{cite web|title=Intellectual Ventures Goes to Trial Against Google and Motorola|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5375304/intellectual-ventures-goes-to-trial-against-google-and-motorola|website=The Verge|date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref> One reviewer called it “one of the most important contributions to the debate about NPEs, patent aggregators and the state of the US patent marketplace.”<ref>{{cite web|title=The Case Against Mass Patent Aggregation|url=https://www.iam-media.com/law-policy/case-against-mass-patent-aggregation|website=IAM}}</ref> Feldman is also known for her expertise in the emerging intellectual property areas affecting artificial intelligence. In March 2018, she served on the Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications panel convened by the Comptroller General of the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|title=Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications|url=https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/690910.pdf|website=Government Accounting Office (GAO)}}</ref>
Feldman has published and been interviewed extensively on the role pharmaceutical companies play in sustaining high drug prices.<ref>{{cite web|title=Senators Who Led Pharma-Friendly Patent Reform Also Prime Targets for Pharma Cash|url=https://khn.org/news/senators-who-led-pharma-friendly-patent-reform-also-prime-targets-for-pharma-cash/|website=Kaiser Health News|date=March 24, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="news.bloomberglaw.com"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Robin Feldman on Drug Patents, Generics, and Drug Wars|url=https://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drug-patents-generics-and-drug-wars/|website=Econ Talk}}</ref> She has published two books on the topic (see Publications below) and numerous journal articles. Her 2018 journal article, “May Your Drug Price be Evergreen,” found that more than two-thirds of drugs issued by pharmaceutical companies are not new drugs but variations of previously patented drugs. This research paper has been widely cited, including in a 2022 op-ed by The New York Times titled, "Save America's Patent System."<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Editorial Board |date=April 16, 2022 |title=Save America's Patent System |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/opinion/patents-reform-drug-prices.html |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=New York Times}}</ref>
Feldman briefed the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights about drug pricing and regulations in 2016<ref>{{cite web|title=Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/06-21-16%20Feldman%20Testimony.pdf}}</ref> and the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health about lowering Medicare drug prices through competition in 2019,<ref>{{cite web|title=HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT|url=https://docs.house.gov/meetings/WM/WM02/20190307/109040/HHRG-116-WM02-Wstate-FeldmanR-20190307.pdf}}</ref> among others.
She is the Director of the Center for Innovation at UC Hastings, which is a think tank on legal policy, with three primary areas of focus: Startup Legal Garage, the Law & Medicine Initiative, and the AI & Capital Markets Initiative.<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for Innovation|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/academics/centers/center-for-innovation/ci4-contact-us/|website=Center for Innovation}}</ref> Startup Legal Garage provides law students with real-world experience advising early-stage tech and life science firms.<ref>{{cite web|title=Start-up Legal Garage|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2016/10/21/innovative-gift-from-tech-startup-accelerator-hackers-founders-supports-uc-hastings-startup-legal-garage/|website=UC Hastings College of Law|date=October 21, 2016 }}</ref>
In 2014, she was named one of Law.com's “Women Leaders in Tech Law.”<ref>{{cite web|title=Women Leaders in Tech Law|url=https://www.law.com/therecorder/almID/1202669004114/?slreturn=20200225224058|website=Law.com}}</ref> In 2016, she was named the winner of a World Technology Award for Law.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Technology Award Winners 2016|work=The World Technology Network |url=https://www.wtn.net/summit-2016/__winners}}</ref>
== Publications == Feldman has published four books. ''Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices''<ref>{{cite web|title=Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes|url=https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/us-law/drugs-money-and-secret-handshakes-unstoppable-growth-prescription-drug-prices?format=HB|website=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> and ''Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market''<ref>{{cite web|title=Drug Wars|url=https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/medico-legal-bioethics-and-health-law/drug-wars-how-big-pharma-raises-prices-and-keeps-generics-market?format=HB|website=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> outline how pharmaceutical companies maneuver using patent laws and take advantage of the structure of the health care industry to protect their revenues. One reviewer described Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes as "one hundred power-packed pages of rich data and sober analysis,"<ref>{{cite web|title=Include CDMOs in "Drugs, Money And Secret Handshakes"|url=https://www.outsourcedpharma.com/doc/include-cdmos-in-drugs-money-and-secret-handshakes-0001|website=Outsourced Pharma}}</ref> while lay readers have appreciated the book's courage for revealing the role pharmaceutical companies play in maintaining high drug prices and the book's clear presentation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43291041-drugs-money-and-secret-handshakes|website=Goodreads|date=2019 }}</ref>
Her book ''Rethinking Patent Law''<ref>{{cite web|title=Rethinking Patent Law|url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064683|website=Harvard University Press}}</ref> was lauded as "an important contribution to the field."<ref>{{cite news|title=Why Big Pharma Is Winning the Drug Price Wars|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-08/why-drug-prices-keep-rising-despite-congress-s-efforts|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=April 8, 2019 }}</ref> Her first book was titled ''The Role of Science in Law''<ref>{{cite web|title=The Role of Science in Law|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-role-of-science-in-law-9780195368581?q=Robin%20Feldman&lang=en&cc=us#|website=Oxford University Press}}</ref> and examined the relationship between the two fields.
Feldman has authored numerous scholarly articles for academic journals, including Stanford Law Technology Review,<ref>{{cite web|title=Empirical Evidence of Drug Pricing Games: A Citizen's Pathway Gone Astray|url=https://law.stanford.edu/publications/empirical-evidence-of-drug-pricing-games-a-citizens-pathway-gone-astray/|website=Stanford Law Review|date=May 31, 2017 }}</ref> Journal of Law and Biosciences,<ref>{{cite journal|title=May your drug price be evergreen|url=https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/5/3/590/5232981|journal=Journal of Law and the Biosciences|date=2018 |doi=10.1093/jlb/lsy022 |last1=Feldman |first1=Robin |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=590–647 |pmc=6534750 }}</ref> and the New England Journal of Medicine.<ref>{{cite journal|title=A Citizen's Pathway Gone Astray — Delaying Competition from Generic Drugs|url=https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1700202|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|year=2017 |doi=10.1056/NEJMp1700202 |last1=Feldman |first1=Robin |last2=Wang |first2=Connie |volume=376 |issue=16 |pages=1499–1501 |pmid=28248550 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Her opinion pieces have appeared in many popular outlets, including ''The Washington Post'',<ref>{{cite news|title=President Trump's Coronavirus Response Highlights Flawed Drug Pricing System|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/27/president-trumps-coronavirus-response-highlights-flawed-drug-pricing-system/|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Why the Cancer Moonshot has been So Disappointing|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/24/why-cancer-moonshot-has-been-so-disappointing/|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> STAT,<ref>{{cite web|title='One-and-done' for new drugs could cut patent thickets and boost generic competition|url=https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/|website=STAT|date=February 11, 2019 }}</ref> and the ''New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Slowing the Patent Trolls|work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/opinion/slowing-the-patent-trolls.html|last1=Feldman |first1=Robin }}</ref>
== Selected publications == === Books ===
* ''Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) * ''Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market,'' with Evan Frondorf,(Cambridge University Press, 2017) * ''Rethinking Patent Law'' (Harvard University Press, 2012) * ''The Role of Science in Law'' (Oxford University Press, 2009)
=== Selected journal articles === * The Insufficiency of Antitrust Analysis for Patent Misuse (Hastings Law Journal, 2003) * The America Invents Act 500: Effects of patent monetization entities on US litigation (Duke Law and Technology Review, 2012) * Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside (with John Newman)(New England Journal of Medicine, 2011) * Do Patent Licensing Demands Mean Innovation? (with Mark A. Lemley)(Iowa Law Review, 2015) * Is Patent Enforcement Efficient? (with Mark A. Lemley) (Boston University Law Review, 2018) * America Invents Act 500 Expanded: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities (with Sara Jeruss & Joshua H. Walker) (Duke Law and Technology Review, 2012) * The Giants Among Us (with Tom Ewing) (Stanford Technology Law Review, 2012) * May Your Drug Price Be Evergreen (Journal of Law and Biosciences, 2018) * Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property (with Mark A. Lemley, Jonathan S. Masur, & Arti K. Rai)(Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 2016) * Perverse Incentives: Why Everyone Prefers High Drug Prices -- Except for Those Who Pay the Bills (Harvard Journal on Legislation, 2020) * Negative Innovation: When Patents are Bad for Patients (with David A. Hyman, W. Nicholson Price II, and Mark J. Ratain)(Nature Biotechnology, 2021)
=== Public Database of Drug Patents ===
* [https://sites.uchastings.edu/evergreensearch/ Evergreen Drug Patent Search Database]
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.uchastings.edu/people/robin-feldman/ Official website]
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