DOJ Reports $3.5B Haul from FCA Enforcement in FY15
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.11.15
On December 3, 2015, DOJ reported that it had obtained more than $3.5 billion in recoveries (settlements and judgments) from civil FCA cases in FY15, making it the fourth year in a row that recoveries have exceeded this amount. Of the FY15 recoveries, $1.1 billion related to procurement, $1.9 billion to health care fraud, and the remainder to mortgage fraud and other federal programs.
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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
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