Annual ISDC Reporting
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.07.19
The annual Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee recently issued its annual report to Congress. The report, found here, contains details of the state of the federal suspension and debarment program for Fiscal Year 2018 (note the significant timelag). The report notes a focus on cybersecurity contractor compliance issues, and proposals to modernize/streamline lead agency coordination. Otherwise, total numbers of suspensions, proposed debarments, and debarments continued to decline year-over-year, while pre-notice interactions with contractors continued to comprise a significant portion of SDO offices’ dockets.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 11.14.25
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.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 11.14.25
Microplastics Update: Regulatory and Litigation Developments in 2025
Client Alert | 6 min read | 11.13.25
