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New GSA Contract Vehicle

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.27.12

On Feb. 21, GSA announced that it intends to proceed with the "Integrations" program, which it called "a groundbreaking approach to the way government acquires complex, integrated professional services, with supporting IT components." According to GSA, the yet-to-be-finalized contract vehicle, which will involve the award of multiple-agency IDIQ contracts, is the product of agency demand for "a total professional services solution" which requires acquisition of multiple services across separate functional areas, in lieu of the acquisition of technology and other professional services on an "à la carte basis" from the GSA schedule.

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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)....