Our Intellectual Property Litigation Group has earned a national reputation for successful resolution of large, complex disputes involving rights in intellectual property. We handle the full range of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation throughout the United States for large and small businesses, universities, and individuals. We also advise venture capital firms and institutional investors on the business implications of pending or threatened intellectual property litigation. learn more

News more

  • Foley Hoag Selected as one of 2008 Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity  [Read More]

Publications more

  • Supreme Court Favors Express Preemption of Medical Device State Tort Claims  [Read More]
  • North vs. South: Affymetrix files more patent cases against Southern Calif. rival Illumina, expanding reach into Europe [Read More]
  • Intellectual Property Brochure [Read More]
  • Life Sciences Brochure [Read More]
  • Dispute Resolution Datasheet [Read More]

Events more

May 29, 2008 FDA Boot Camp: Basic Training for Products Liability and Patent Lawyers [Read More] Hotel Whitcomb
San Francisco, CA
June 17, 2008 BIO 2008 International Convention [Read More] San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA
September 6, 2008 AIPPI's 41st World Intellectual Property Congress  [Read More] Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA

Client Successes more

  • KVH Industries
    Our lawyers recently secured a key patent win for longtime client KVH Industries, a Rhode Island-based provider of in-motion satellite television and communication systems, in addition to navigation and guidance products. A jury in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota returned a verdict in favor of KVH that the company was not liable for infringing King Controls' U.S. Patent 6,864,846 involving satellite switching technology because the asserted claim of the patent was invalid over prior art presented by KVH at trial. The win clears the way for KVH to continue sales of its leading TracVision® line of in-motion satellite television products used around the world on boats, automobiles, recreational vehicles, trucks and buses. [Read More]
  • Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Our lawyers have been retained by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in several projects, and have obtained worldwide patent protection for numerous pioneering inventions in organic chemistry and chemical engineering. For example, we have obtained for the institutions domestic and foreign patents protecting asymmetric transition-metal-catalyzed reductions; asymmetric transition-metal-catalyzed cycloadditions; and transition-metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. [Read More]