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A claim is a�set of operative facts�creating a right enforceable in court.�The term claim is generally synonymous with�the phrase cause of action, though some contexts prefer to use one of the terms over the other. For example, in the field of insurance, you generally file a claim for coverage under a policy rather than file a cause of action for coverage under a policy.�

Attempting to file a lawsuit in which no claim is present will result in the dismissal of that lawsuit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. As established in Ashcroft v. IQBAL and Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, a claim must be plausible on its face and establish more than the mere possibility that the defendant is liable to survive a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss.

Legal claims are subject to the principles of res judicata and a party may therefore be unable to bring an otherwise valid claim to court due to claim preclusion. A party is precluded from raising any claim in a new lawsuit that was already adjudicated on the merits in a previous trial, as well as any compulsory counterclaim that they could have raised but did not raise in that previous trial.�

In patent law, a claim is a technical description for each segment of the invention that the patent protects. Most patents include multiple claims.�The first claim usually describes the whole invention in the broadest terms allowed by the USPTO. Subsequent claims describe - in increasingly precise terms - how each unit of the invention gets created.�