Dmitry Karshtedt

Dmitry Karshtedt
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Dmitry Karshtedt (May 10, 1977 – October 30, 2022) was a patent attorney, chemist, and associate professor of law at George Washington University Law School. He became tenured in 2020.

Career

Academic Career & Education

Professor Karshtedt taught Patent Law, Intellectual Property, Torts, and an Advanced Patent Law Seminar at George Washington University Law School starting from August 2015.

Karshtedt was born in Moscow, Russia on May 10, 1977 and immigrated to the United States in 1990. After spending a year at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in San Francisco, he entered 9th grade at Lowell High School, also in San Francisco. Karshtedt graduated from Lowell High in 1995 and moved on to Harvard University, where he earned an A.B. in chemistry in 1999, summa cum laude. Karshtedt then went on to graduate with a PhD in Chemistry from University of California Berkeley in 2005, and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2011, where he served as the Senior Symposium Editor for the Stanford Law Review and was a student of Professor Mark Lemley. He also spent his first year of law school at Columbia Law School from 2008-2009, before transferring to Stanford Law School, which he attended from 2009-2011 and graduated with a J.D. from.

From 2006 to 2008 Karshtedt worked at Kovio, Inc., a semiconductor materials startup, and from 2009 to 2011 he worked at Silura, Inc., a chemical catalyst startup. From June to July 2010, Karshtedt worked as a Summer Associate at the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Karshtedt also worked as a Summer Associate (May 2009 to July 2009, and August 2010), Scientific Advisor (August 2009 to May 2010 and September 2010 to August 2011), and upon graduation from Stanford Law School in 2011, as an Associate in the "IP Counseling and Innovation Group" of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from September 2011 to August 2012. He also became admitted to the California Bar on December 1, 2011.

Karshtedt also served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Kimberly Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from October 2012 to July 2014. From August 2014 to July 2015, Karshtedt was a Fellow at the Center for Law and Biosciences at Stanford Law School, and in August 2015, Karshtedt became an Assistant Law Professor at George Washington University Law School. He became a tenured associate professor of law at the same institution in 2020.

Patents

Karshtedt is also a listed inventor on a total of thirteen patents, specifically:

• U.S. Patent Nos. 8,846,507, 8,461,284, and 8,092,867, “Silicon Polymers, Methods of Polymerizing Silicon Compounds, and Methods of Forming Thin Films from Such Silicon Polymers” (First named inventor on all three patents)
• U.S. Patent Nos. 10,195,603 and 9,718,054, “Production of Ethylene with Nanowire Catalysts”
• U.S. Patent No. 9,670,113, “Natural Gas Processing and Systems”
• U.S. Patent Nos. 9,556,086 and 9,469,577, “Oxidative Coupling of Methane Systems and Methods”
• U.S. Patent Nos. 9,045,653 and 8,530,589, “Print Processing for Patterned Conductor, Semiconductor and Dielectric Materials”
• U.S. Patent Nos. 11,078,132; 9,751,818 and 8,962,517, “Nanowire Catalysts and Methods for their Use and Preparation”

Publications

Professor Karshtedt's articles have appeared in periodicals including the Iowa Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Villanova Law Review, Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law, Texas Law Review, Florida Law Review, IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and cited in three of the leading Patent Law casebooks, a casebook on Intellectual Property, and several treatises.

Professor Karshtedt also authored Chapter 8, “Defenses to Infringement,” in Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Mark & Ted Sichelman, eds. 2021).

Accolades

Karshtedt has also won a number of awards for his academic work, including the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize and a scholarship grant for judicial law clerks sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, as well as the Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship from the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University (2017–2018). Karshtedt has also co-authored five scientific journal articles published in periodicals including Organometallics and Journal of the American Chemical Society, and was also named Phi Beta Kappa while at Harvard University.

Influence & Legacy

Karshtedt's work has been cited in several Petitions for Writ of Certiorari in U.S. Supreme Court cases including Idenix Pharm. LLC v. Gilead Scis., Inc. (No. 20-380), 2020 WL 5751271 (Sept. 21, 2020) and Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (No. 21-757), 2021 WL 5506421 (Nov. 18, 2021), and in U.S. Supreme Court case amicus briefs including in Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc., (2014) 575 U.S. 632 (2015), and Helsinn, 139 S. Ct. 628 (2019) (previously cited in the principal brief of plaintiff-appellee and several amicus briefs (including brief for the United States) in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc., 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2017). His work has also been cited for a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Juno v. Kite before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following Karshtedt's death on October 30, 2022, tributes from Professor Irina Manta, Professor Jacob Sherkow, Professor Gregory Dolin, Professor Jason Rantanen, Professor Andres Sawicki, Professor Timothy T. Hsieh, Andrew Task (Partner at Williams & Connolly) and Eli Mazour (Partner at Harrity & Harrity LLP) were written or reported on.

External links

• Dmitry Karshtedt's Official Page at George Washington University Law School
• Dmitry Karshtedt's SSRN Page
• Dmitry Karshtedt on LinkedIn

References

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