Please join us in welcoming new blogger Rachel Sachs to Bill of Health!
Rachel earned her J.D. in 2013 magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was the Articles Chair of the Harvard Law Review and a student fellow with both the Petrie-Flom Center and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business. Rachel has also earned a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, during which she interned at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She holds an A.B. in Bioethics from Princeton University. After law school Rachel clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She will be joining the Petrie-Flom Center as an Academic Fellow in August 2014.
Rachel’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of patent law and public health, with a particular focus on problems of innovation and access and the ways in which law helps or hinders these problems. Her past scholarship has examined the interactions between patent law and FDA regulation in the area of diagnostic tests, and explored the mechanisms behind the passage of patent-related legislation. Her current scholarship applies this focus on innovation and access to the intersection of patent law and drug reimbursement policies.
Representative Publications:
- The New Model of Interest Group Representation in Patent Law, 16 Yale J. L. & Tech. ___ (forthcoming 2014).
- Note, Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1370 (2013).
- The Supreme Court, 2011 Term—Leading Case, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 126 Harv. L. Rev. 347 (2012).
- Anthony D. So & Rachel Sachs, Making Intellectual Property Work for Global Health, 53 Harv. Int’l L.J. Online 106 (2012).
- Recent Case, Federal Circuit Invalidates Diagnostic Method Claims as Drawn to “Abstract Mental Processes”: Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 658 (2011).