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Introducing Crowell & Moring’s Compliance “Check-Up” for Government Contractors

Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.06.18

The Government Contracts and Corporate Groups at Crowell & Moring LLP are pleased to announce our Compliance “Check-Up” for Government Contractors, focused on providing pre-sale advice to government contractors and private equity sponsors contemplating selling or fundraising in the current market.  Our team of over 80 experienced government contracts and transactional professionals stands ready to assist clients by providing (at no cost) a “Check-Up” – a diagnostic review of key diligence questions, aimed at identifying common compliance issues that can drive down sales prices and/or increase borrowing costs.  By identifying these issues early in the diligence process, sellers can avoid common traps that may negatively impact deal terms, complicate reps and warranties, and make post-merger integration more difficult and expensive.  For more information on our Compliance “Check-Up” for Government Contractors, please click here.

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Defining Claim Terms by Implication: Lexicography Lessons from Aortic Innovations LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

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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