Dr. Yuan Hao is Co-Director and Senior Fellow of the Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center (BAIC) and a Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her research focuses on two intersecting themes: (1) IP’s role in facilitating human creativity in an AI-powered age, and (2) IP’s role in facilitating private ordering and innovation ecosystems under authoritarian governance.
For the first theme, Dr. Hao co-teaches IP and Human Creativity in an “AI Age”, a new course launched in Fall 2023. Her recent article, The Rise of Centaur Inventors, was published in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. 104, Jan. 2024). Her second research area examines the evolving interface between patent and antitrust law in China, especially in the field of standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation. Before joining Berkeley, Dr. Hao served on the faculty of Tsinghua University Law School, where she taught patent law, advanced technology law, and Chinese law school’s first seminar on IP and antitrust. She has advised on major legislative projects in IP and antimonopoly law and participated in numerous litigation, administrative, and arbitration proceedings—including two landmark SEP antimonopoly investigations —as an adjudication panel member or expert witness.
Dr. Hao was appointed as an arbitrator of the International Arbitration Center in Tokyo (IACT) in 2018, an institution specializing in SEP-related disputes.
Education
Ph.D. (Nano-electronics), Pennsylvania State University (2007)
J.D., Brooklyn Law School (2011)
B.S. (Physics), Peking University (1999)