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Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.03.13
Tune in this Sunday to Government Contracting Weekly (7 am, WUSA Channel 9) to hear Crowell & Moring's own Angela Styles and Amy O'Sullivan discuss several key topics of interest, including sequestration (and its impacts on bid protests and the M&A market) and reactions to the new small business legislation, that will be given greater attention at our 29th Annual Ounce of Prevention Seminar, May 15th and 16th at the Renaissance Hotel in D.C.
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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
