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Crowell & Moring’s Chicago office opened in 2021, when 60 attorneys joined from the premier, 100-year-old full service intellectual property and technology firm Brinks Gilson & Lione. Just as Chicago has evolved into a world class technology hub while maintaining its core industries, Crowell’s Chicago office is focused on helping both leading companies and entrepreneurs protect, commercialize, and bring their innovations, creations, and brands to market throughout the world. Our team of lawyers and professionals have deep scientific knowledge and industry experience that strengthens the firm’s ability to help guide clients through litigation, transactions, and a dynamic regulatory environment in the increasingly data and technology-driven global economy.   

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  • Crowell & Moring’s Chicago office has deep midwestern roots and a long-standing commitment to the surrounding community. We partner with local legal aid agencies on a number of fronts, including: assisting residents in housing court that are facing improper evictions; acting as court-appointed guardians to represent the interests of minors; and providing legal advice to artists and art organizations.

    We are also active in local pipeline development initiatives. Since the founding of Legal Prep in 2012, the Chicago office has supported Legal Prep Charter Academies. Legal Prep is a free, open-enrollment high school with mostly Black students that was founded to inspire young people and increase the diversity of the legal profession and judiciary. Every year, our attorneys volunteer to teach Legal Prep’s high school students in a mock trial course, which provides several benefits to students, including improving their written and oral communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and advocacy skills. Through this immersive exercise, Crowell volunteers guide students to a deeper understanding of the various stages that make up a trial.

    Crowell & Moring’s Chicago office has deep midwestern roots and a long-standing commitment to the surrounding community. We partner with local legal aid agencies on a number of fronts, including: assisting residents in housing court that are facing improper evictions; acting as court-appointed guardians to represent the interests of minors; and providing legal advice to artists and art organizations.

    We are also active in local pipeline development initiatives. Since the founding of Legal Prep in 2012, the Chicago office has supported Legal Prep Charter Academies. Legal Prep is a free, open-enrollment high school with mostly Black students that was founded to inspire young people and increase the diversity of the legal profession and judiciary. Every year, our attorneys volunteer to teach Legal Prep’s high school students in a mock trial course, which provides several benefits to students, including improving their written and oral communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and advocacy skills. Through this immersive exercise, Crowell volunteers guide students to a deeper understanding of the various stages that make up a trial.

  • Our Chicago office is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within our team and the broader legal community. Our team members include an alumna of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder Program, and leading attorneys have been named to Crain’s Chicago Business: Notable Women and the Lawyers of Color Hot List. Members of our office also serve as leaders within the firm’s DEI initiatives, such as Crowell’s Diversity Council and Racial Equity Task Force.

    Our Chicago office is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within our team and the broader legal community. Our team members include an alumna of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder Program, and leading attorneys have been named to Crain’s Chicago Business: Notable Women and the Lawyers of Color Hot List. Members of our office also serve as leaders within the firm’s DEI initiatives, such as Crowell’s Diversity Council and Racial Equity Task Force.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 11.14.25

Defining Claim Terms by Implication: Lexicography Lessons from Aortic Innovations LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Claim construction is a key stage of most patent litigations, where the court must decide the meaning of any disputed terms in the patent claims.  Generally, claim terms are given their plain and ordinary meaning except under two circumstances: (1) when the patentee acts as its own lexicographer and sets out a definition for the term; and (2) when the patentee disavows the full scope of the term either in the specification or during prosecution.  Thorner v. Sony Comput. Ent. Am. LLC, 669 F.3d 1362, 1365 (Fed. Cir. 2012).  The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Aortic Innovations LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp. highlights that patentees can act as their own lexicographers through consistent, interchangeable usage of terms across the specification, effectively defining terms by implication....

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 11.14.25

Defining Claim Terms by Implication: Lexicography Lessons from Aortic Innovations LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Claim construction is a key stage of most patent litigations, where the court must decide the meaning of any disputed terms in the patent claims.  Generally, claim terms are given their plain and ordinary meaning except under two circumstances: (1) when the patentee acts as its own lexicographer and sets out a definition for the term; and (2) when the patentee disavows the full scope of the term either in the specification or during prosecution.  Thorner v. Sony Comput. Ent. Am. LLC, 669 F.3d 1362, 1365 (Fed. Cir. 2012).  The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Aortic Innovations LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp. highlights that patentees can act as their own lexicographers through consistent, interchangeable usage of terms across the specification, effectively defining terms by implication....

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