Hidden in Plain Sight: Where, Oh Where, Have the Compensation Caps Gone?
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.29.18
Contractors looking for updates to the statutory allowable cost limits on employee compensation may be looking in the wrong place. Historically, such limits were posted in the Federal Register for public notice. However, the OFPP recently posted the annual increases for costs incurred in 2015-2018 on its website instead of publication through the Federal Register.
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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.
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