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Foley Hoag’s client Global Bio-Chem Technology (GBT) secured an important victory yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the patent litigation matter on appeal from the International Trade Commission (ITC).

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Foley Hoag congratulates Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. for its recent transaction with Epocal, Inc., an Ottawa-based developer of diagnostic products. Epocal is commercializing a cost-effective blood analysis platform, epoc®, a point-of-care analysis system providing wireless bedside blood gas and electrolyte measurement testing solutions.  Inverness will promote the use of the epoc® platform through its global sales force for a five-year period.  The deal was announced on January 5, 2010.

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Foley Hoag LLP, the  225-lawyer firm based in Boston and Washington, D.C., has announced the appointment of William Kolb, 48, and Adam Kahn, 45, as Co-Managing Partners effective January 1, 2010.  Mr. Kolb and Mr. Kahn, who have a combined total of 40 years of experience at Foley Hoag, both currently serve on the firm’s Executive Committee.

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Foley Hoag LLP is pleased to announce three promotions to Partner, Euripides D. Dalmanieras, Essence McGill Arzu, and Robert E. Toone.  The promotions became effective January 1.

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Two Foley Hoag lawyers, partner Seth D. Jaffe and associate Rebecca L. Puskas, received the annual Public Affairs Award from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) yesterday at NAIOP’s Annual Meeting.

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Foley Hoag LLP has launched an updated version of www.emergingenterprisecenter.com, its Web site designed to serve the Emerging Enterprise Center (EEC), the destination opened in Waltham in 2006.

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Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession, has named Seth D. Jaffe of Foley Hoag LLP as the “Boston Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year” for 2010.

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Adding to its leading team of life sciences regulatory attorneys and policy specialists, Foley Hoag LLP announced that Jayson Slotnik, a former director of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, has joined the firm’s Government Strategies practice in Washington, DC.

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Foley Hoag LLP announced that noted intellectual property lawyer Julia Huston will join the firm as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department.  Known for her high-profile victories in trademark, copyright and false advertising cases, Ms. Huston will chair Foley Hoag’s Trademark and Copyright practice group while expanding the firm’s focus on providing sophisticated intellectual property counsel to technology companies and research institutions.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Vickie L. Henry, a Partner and Deputy Chair of the Litigation Department, on her appointment as Chair of the Commercial Litigation Committee of the DRI, the Voice of the Defense Bar.

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(Washington, October 19, 2009) – Law firm Foley Hoag LLP announced that prominent international arbitration lawyer Mark Clodfelter has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington office.  Mr. Clodfelter has specialized in investor-state arbitration and other international disputes for over 25 years, including seven years as head of international claims and investment disputes for U.S. State Department, and adds another set of key credentials to the firm’s growing International Litigation and Arbitration Practice.

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Foley Hoag LLP has been retained by the government of Bangladesh in two just-filed arbitration actions against the neighboring states of Myanmar (Burma) and India over maritime borders in the resource-rich Bay of Bengal.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Neil Austin, an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, on being selected as one of 15 lawyers to participate in the Boston Bar Association’s 2009-2010 Public Interest Leadership Program.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Colin Zick, a partner in the Boston office, on his recent nomination to North American Regional Vice Chair of the Health Care Industries Practice Group of Lex Mundi, a global network of independent law firms.  He will serve in the role for a four-year term, 2009-2013.

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Best Lawyers in America®, a peer-review directory published annually by Woodward/White, recently released its 2010 guide including 27 lawyers from Foley Hoag LLP.

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Lawyers in Foley Hoag’s Business Department congratulate Advanced Electron Beams, Inc., a client of the firm, for recently closing a $14.2 million Series C financing. The round was led by a new investor, Flagship Ventures, and current investors, including Atlas Venture, General Catalyst, General Electric Co. and RockPort.

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India Business Law Journal, a monthly publication providing business intelligence for international companies involved in cross-border transactions, ranked Foley Hoag LLP in its third annual survey of top international advisors for India-related legal work.

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Beginning today, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands, will hear three weeks of final arguments in a closely watched dispute over sustainable development between the nations of Uruguay and Argentina over a paper mill on the Uruguay River.  The case is only the second environmental dispute to be decided by the ICJ, and the first since the 1990s.

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign, released its 2009 Corporate Equality Index today, including Foley Hoag LLP among the nation’s top employers for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

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A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has issued a unanimous summary affirmance in favor of the government of Venezuela that effectively ends a case brought by two Venezuelan mining concerns claiming over $200 million in damages.