NIST HIPAA Security Rule Guidance
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.04.08
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a set of detailed guidance materials to serve as a framework for complying with the HIPAA security rules. The guidance includes checklists for compliance requirements, a glossary, cross references to standards and definitions, and a table of prior NIST published standards on security in various types of situations. Click here to download "An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accoutability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule" [PDF] from csrc.nist.gov.
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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).
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