Notable Successes

Kurt Fredrickson Ph.D.

Kurt Fredrickson, an Associate at Desmarais LLP, won the Federal Circuit Bar Association's 2023 George Hutchinson Writing Competition Award for his paper “‘Otherwise Available to the Public’: Using § 102 to Avoid the Supreme Court’s Patent-Eligibility Quagmire.”
 
Fredrickson was recognized at the FCBA's Annual Dinner and Reception on November 17, 2023 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., and the paper will be published in the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, the FCBA’s official journal. Fredrickson’s paper proposes options to work around the currently confusing Supreme Court case law related to patentability under Section 101.
 
The annual writing contest honors George Hutchinson, the Federal Circuit's first chief clerk, and is overseen by the FCBA’s Hutchinson Writing Contest Committee. It is open to law school students and requires that submissions focus on current topics relating to the Federal Circuit. Select FCBA members judge the papers anonymously (with authors’ names redacted), and first prize is awarded to the highest-scoring paper.
 
In addition to the Hutchinson Writing Award, Fredrickson’s paper also won the Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal 2023 Writing Competition.
 
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Kurt Fredrickson Ph.D.