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Foley & Lardner IP Practice Gets Boost from $208M Gov’t Contract

Posted Oct 28, 2009, 04:36 pm CST
By Martha Neil

A $208 million contract to provide intellectual property services to the National Institutes of Health for up to 10 years has been awarded to Foley & Lardner.

The Milwaukee-based law firm, which has 240 attorneys in its IP practice, expects to begin work immediately on contested proceedings involving patents for biotechnology and other medically related mechanical/electrical/software patents, according to the Journal Sentinel.

Lawyers in the firm's Boston, San Diego/Del Mar, Calif., Madison, Wis., and Washington, D.C., offices will perform work for the NIH.

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