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The Benefits of Patent Marking – And of Getting It Right Apr 4, 2008 Michael V. Dowd Alert

Intellectual Property Alert - April 4, 2008

SUMMARY

While marking products to indicate that they are patented is necessary to maximize your patent rights, a recent case highlights the importance of marking the products accurately.

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Intellectual Property Brochure Dec 21, 2007 Brochure Download

Driving Business Advantage

SUMMARY

To succeed in today’s technology-driven world, every companymust maximize the strategic value of its intellectual property.At Foley Hoag, we use our technical expertise and deepexperience to enhance the power of your technology globally.Claims to exclusive ownership of a process, design or productraise complex issues. In today’s global marketplace, conflictshave increased—making intellectual property managementa top priority for successful companies. We will help you:

  • Implement a strategy to protect and expand your intellectual property assets
  • Proactively protect your assets to keep your success on track
  • Evaluate the validity of conflicting claims, and if necessary, take action to defeat those claims
  • Resolve conflicts through commercial agreements

We can help you manage your current intellectual property assetsand build value for your new technologies or other inventions.Our intellectual property lawyers have earned a reputation forcreatively handling the full range of intellectual property, includingpatent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, due diligence, andlitigation throughout the United States and internationally for largeand small businesses, universities, individuals, venture capitalfirms and institutional investors.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Brochure Dec 19, 2007 Brochure Download

SUMMARY

Excerpt:

Corporate globalization presents companies with unanticipated risks and challenges. Businesses are held to higher standards of accountability with respect to social, environmental and ethical practices. Companies unresponsive to these demands risk damage to their reputations, brand image and competitiveness. We help savvy business leaders limit their companies’ risk by incorporating internationally recognized standards into their strategic planning, crisis response strategies and relationships with stakeholders.

Benefits of our counsel include:

  • Reduction of threat to corporate reputation
  • Reduction of legal risks associated with the uncertainties of globalization
  • Enhanced brand image
  • Increased customer and employee loyalty and retention Improved relationships with external stakeholders and public opinion leaders

Download the Foley Hoag Corporate Social Responsibility Brochure (.pdf)

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Technology Datasheet Dec 17, 2007 Brochure Download

Providing comprehensive, sophisticated counsel to technology leaders

SUMMARY

Maintaining a leadership position in competitive, dynamic industries like software and technology is always challenging. At Foley Hoag, our lawyers are dedicated to helping you meet this challenge. Our goal is to become an essential partner to our clients in the software and technology industries. We understand your business, and we’ve been involved in many important industry milestones. For example, we assisted our clients in the:

  • Initial public offering of Cullinet Software, which became the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
  • Merger of Powersoft with Sybase, which was the largest merger in the software industry
  • Merger of PRI Automation and Brooks Automation, creating the  largest automation company in the semiconductor industry
  • Acquisition of the defense and intelligence group of American Management Systems by CACI International, creating the largest publicly traded company devoted to providing information technology services to the United States Government

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International Litigation and Arbitration Practice Summary Dec 17, 2007 Brochure Download

Representative Experience

SUMMARY

Engagements Include:

  • Litigation and Arbitration between Sovereign States
  • Arbitration between Sovereign States and Investors
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Litigation before the United States Courts

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Litigios y Arbitrajes Internacionales Dec 17, 2007 Brochure Download

Cassos Representativos

SUMMARY

  • Litigios y Arbitrajes entre Estados Soberanos
  • Arbitrajes entre Estados
  • Soberanos e Inversionistas
  • Arbitrajes Internacionales Comerciales
  • Litigios ante las Cortes de los Estados Unidos

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Tax and Benefits Alert - November 20, 2007 Nov 20, 2007 James T. Montgomery, Jr. Alert

I.R.S. Issues Annual Cost-of-living Adjustments Applicable in 2008

SUMMARY

The I.R.S. recently issued its annual cost-of-living adjustments applicable in 2008 to qualified retirement (pension, profit-sharing, § 401(k), money purchase and stock bonus) plans.

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Doing Business in Massachusetts Aug 14, 2007 Arlene L. Bender, Michael N. Glanz eBook Download

A Guide to U.S. and Massachusetts Law for Non-U.S. Businesses

SUMMARY

This guide is intended to provide foreign businesspeople with an introduction to the basic kinds of laws and regulations that affect the conduct of business in the United States, and particularly in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The level of detail is varied, reflecting the nature of the legal areas discussed. For example, environmental law and taxation are subjects of detailed and technical regulation, while labor relations are governed as much by custom and practice as by direct regulation.

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Emerging Enterprise Center Brochure Nov 30, 2006 Brochure Download

SUMMARY

For years, Foley Hoag has served the entrepreneurial and venture communities in Greater Boston and beyond. Our depth of experience allows us to handle the broad range of issues these organizations face with efficiency and skill. The Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag is the next logical step in our partnership with emerging markets, reinforcing our committment to providing strategic legal advice and business insight.

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Banker and Tradesman - November 26, 2001 Nov 26, 2001 Douglas M. McGarrah, Pat A. Cerundolo General Download

In Downturn, Municipalities Hold Key to Telecom Expansion

SUMMARY

With plummeting stock prices and constricted high-tech capital markets, the telecommunications industry is in the midst of a serious economic downturn. Analysts predict that telecom capital spending by competitive local exchange carriers – those new entrants into the telecommunications market spawned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 – will decrease on a large scale in the next three years. Bankruptcies, downsizing and cutbacks in telecom infrastructure deployment are now commonplace throughout the industry.

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