Janet Freilich

Professor Janet Freilich writes and teaches in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, and civil procedure. She has published or has articles forthcoming in Science, the Review of Statistics and Economics, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and others. She has received the Fordham Law Dean's Distinguished Research Award, the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Intellectual Property, and the Cloud Based Research Computing Project Award.

Professor Freilich was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. She was Harvard Law School’s inaugural postdoctoral fellow in private law and intellectual property with the Program on the Foundations of Private Law. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology.

Selected Publications

• Government Misinformation Platforms, 172 University of Pennsylvania L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024)
• Is the Patent System Sensitive to Information Quality?, Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming 2023) (with Soomi Kim)
• Patents' New Salience, 109 Virginia L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023)
• Paths to Downstream Innovation, 55 UC Davis L. Rev.  (forthcoming 2022)
• Ignoring Information Quality, 89 Fordham L. Rev. 2114 (2021)
• The Replicability Crisis in Patent Law, 95 Indiana L.J. 431 (2020)
• Patent Shopping, 10 UC Irvine L. Rev. 619 (2020)
• Prophetic Patents, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 663 (2019)
• Science Fiction: Fictitious Experiments in Patents, Science, Vol. 364, No. 6445, p. 1036 (June 2019) (with Lisa Larrimore Ouellette)
• Patent Clutter, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 925 (2018)
• Towards Patent Standardization, 30 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 233 (2017)
• The Uninformed Topography of Patent Scope, 19 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 150 (2015)
• The Paradox of Legal Equivalents and Scientific Equivalence, 59 S.M.U. L. Rev. 66 (2013)
• Patent Infringement in the Context of Follow-on-Biologics, 16 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 9 (2012)