FY2017 Suspension and Debarment Trends
Client Alert | 1 min read | 11.07.17
Crowell & Moring partner and former acting Air Force suspending and debarring official David Robbins published his annual examination of the government’s suspension and debarment statistics for the prior government fiscal year. The article, entitled Suspension and Debarment: FY 2017 By the Numbers ran in Law360 and may be accessed here. This article represents a deep dive into the raw suspension/debarment numbers listed on the System for Award Management and shows year-over-year trends not available on the government’s annual Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee report. It covers agency-specific trends for excluding individuals, small businesses, traditional government contractors, and non-traditional government contractors.
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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
