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The Current Suspension/Debarment Landscape

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.25.17

With the federal suspension/debarment processes becoming more collaborative, contractors find themselves facing new agencies and new (and, generally, longer-lasting) procedures when dealing with suspending and debarring officials. David Robbins, Angela Styles & Peter Eyre cover the most recent changes in federal suspension, debarment, and proactive disclosure practice in Not Your Grandfather’s Suspension & Debarment: How Contractors Can Prepare For and Defend Against Today’s Exclusions.

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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)....