25th Anniversary Version Of FMF Guidelines -- No Celebration For It Companies
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.10.09
On August 31, 2009, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency released a revised set of Guidelines for Foreign Military Financing of Direct Commercial Contracts and Contractor's Certification & Agreement with DSCA which are to be implemented no later than October 1, 2009. The principal changes focus on the difficult compliance issue of identifying non-U.S. content in the products and underscore DSCA's increasingly inflexible approach to that issue, including determination whether spares and post-delivery warranty or maintenance effort constitute non-U.S. content ineligible for financing, a problem that has been particularly troubling for companies furnishing information technology products to the Government of Israel under the FMF program.
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Client Alert | 6 min read | 11.26.25
From ‘Second’ to ‘First:’ Federal Circuit Tackles Obvious Claim Errors
Patent claims must be clear and definite, as they set the boundaries of the patentee’s rights. Occasionally, however, claim language contains errors, such as typographical mistakes or incorrect numbering. Courts possess very limited authority to correct such errors. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has emphasized that judicial correction is appropriate only in rare circumstances, where (1) the error is evident from the face of the patent, and (2) the proposed correction is the sole reasonable interpretation in view of the claim language, specification, and prosecution history. See Group One, Ltd. v. Hallmark Cards, Inc., 407 F.3d 1297, 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) and Novo Indus., L.P. v. Micro Molds Corp., 350 F.3d 1348, 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2003).
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.26.25
Client Alert | 6 min read | 11.25.25
Brussels Court Clarifies the EU’s SPC Manufacturing Waiver Regulation Rules
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.24.25
