Professor of Law
Areas of Specialization
Patent Law; Intellectual Property Law; International Intellectual Property Law; International Trade Law
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. She earned her Sc.B., with honors, from Brown University, where she majored in physics. Following law school, Sarah practiced patent litigation in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson, P.C. She subsequently served as a law clerk to Judge Donald C. Pogue of the U.S. Court of International Trade and to Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Rajec was a Lecturer in Law and Teaching Fellow for the Law, Science & Technology Program at Stanford Law School and the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor and Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at George Washington University Law School.
Articles
Regulatory and Judicial Implementations of Patent Law Flexibilities, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(43 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 245-247 (2012))Tailoring Remedies to Spur Innovation, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(61 American University Law Review 733-784 (2012))Evaluating Flexibility in International Patent Law, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(65 Hastings Law Journal 153-210 (2013))Free Trade in Patented Goods: International Exhaustion for Patents, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(29 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 317-376 (2014))Patents Absent Adversaries, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(81 Brooklyn Law Review 1073-1120 (2016))The Intellectual Property Hostage in Trade Retaliation, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(76 Maryland Law Review 169-219 (2016))Infringement, Unbound, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(32 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 117-167 (2018))The Harmonization Myth in International Intellectual Property Law, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(62 Arizona Law Review 735-784 (2020))Third-Party Interests and the Property Law Misfit in Patent Law, Sarah Rajec
(41 Cardozo Law Review 1859-1919 (2020))Pleasure Patents, Andrew Gilden and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(63 Boston College Law Review 571-621 (2022))Advances in Patent Rights Acquisition in International Patent Law, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(41 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 447-456 (2023))Patent Term Tailoring, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(99 Indiana Law Journal 475-514 (2024))Patenting the Taboo: Sex, Drugs, and Abortion, Andrew Gilden and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
(27 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 474-547 (2025))Books
Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook, Sarah Fackrell, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, and Andres Sawicki
(Version 2, © 2025)