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Section 3610 Billing Guidance

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.13.20

Crowell & Moring has collected and analyzed the available, agency-specific billing guidelines for government contractors submitting CARES Act Section 3610 invoices. The information is collected here. A PDF version can be found here.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25

Design Patent Application Drawings & Prosecution History Must Be Clear (Merely Translucent Won’t Suffice!)

Design patents offer protection for the ornamental appearance of a product, focusing on aspects like its shape and surface decoration, as opposed to the functional aspects protected by utility patents. The scope of a design patent is defined by the drawings and any descriptive language within the patent itself. Recent decisions by the Federal Circuit emphasize the need for clarity in the prosecution history of a design patent in order to preserve desired scope to preserve intentional narrowing (and to avoid unintentional sacrifice of desired claim scope)....