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Spring Compliance Check

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.03.18

As government contractors merge, reorganize, or grow, functional roles and responsibilities are in constant flux. So that compliance obligations are not left behind in this dynamic business environment, Crowell & Moring has created an interactive compliance matrix highlighting important responsibilities by business function. Click on the business department in the chart, here, to help your organization keep track of important government contracts compliance obligations.

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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)....