Professor Dmitry Karshtedt was awarded the Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship Award by the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He and the other awardees went through an extensive application process prior to being selected.
The fellowship's mission is to promote a better academic discussion about intellectual property rights with substantial scholarship produced from rigorous research that examines the moral and economic value of patented innovation. Professor Karshtedt will participate in a year-long non-resident structured curriculum that will bring together a group of scholars who will develop research papers on patent law and policy. All fellows will share and collaborate on both their research and early drafts. A substantial amount of their work will be published in law journals and other peer-reviewed academic publications.
In addition to the curriculum, Professor Karshtedt will take part in a series of conferences on intellectual property and engage in roundtable discussions with expert senior scholars and industry representatives.
Professor Karshtedt's research focuses on patent law. His legal scholarship has appeared in the Texas Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Boston College Law Review. Professor Karshtedt has won several awards as well, including the scholarship grant for judicial clerks sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, and the Intellectual Property Writing Competition at Stanford Law School.