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Crowell & Moring Cops #1 Ranking

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.31.09

Chambers USA has released its 2009 rankings of national Government Contracts practices, and C&M once again ranks in the First Band. Chambers takes note of our "extraordinary depth and experience across the board" and "pure quality and prestige" and recognizes several individuals as "Leading Lawyers" in the field -- congratulations to Terry Albertson, Tom Humphrey, Stan Johnson ("everybody's gold standard"), Kent Morrison, and Angela Styles.

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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)....