BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261003T0154Z-1790992457.713-EO-793477-1@10.73.3.196 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20261002T215417Z CREATED:20261002T191405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T191405Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T140000 SUMMARY: LILtalks Presents: Who is Patent Disclosure For with Visiting Prof essor of Law Janet Freilich DESCRIPTION: Patents are one of the world’s largest public libraries of tec hnological information. Laws governing this library\, however\, focus on re aders of individual patents\, and do little to facilitate larger scale\, ag gregate use. This LIL talk will illustrate this point through theory and an empirical case study of pharmaceutical patents\, while highlighting a broa der problem with […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Patents are one of the world’s largest pub lic libraries of technological information. Laws governing this library\, h owever\, focus on readers of individual patents\, and do little to facilita te larger scale\, aggregate use.

This LIL talk will illustrate this p oint through theory and an empirical case study of pharmaceutical patents\, while highlighting a broader problem with laws governing information discl osure: they are often designed for readers of individual documents\, even a s users increasingly seek to aggregate and combine information across legal documents.

CATEGORIES:Information Session LOCATION:Zoom GEO:40.712728;-74.006015 ORGANIZER;CN="Harmony Eidolon":MAILTO:heidolon@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/liltalks-presents-who-is-paten t-disclosure-for-with-visiting-professor-of-law-janet-freilich/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Prof-Freilich_LILtalks.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR