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Dakota Systems specializes in enterprise publishing and content management solutions. Its consultants provide a wide range of content delivery services. The company features analysis and development methodologies that integrate business intelligence with publishing strategies. Dakota Systems offers expertise in document conversion, technical training, XML development, structured authoring tools, composition systems and enterprise trends. It has served various clients, such as McGraw-Hill, Boeing, Motorola, John Deere and the University of Chicago Press. The company presented papers on emerging publishing technologies for the Society of Technical Communication, Gilbane Conference Series and XML Europe. Dakota Systems was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago.

For more than a century, Leydig, Voit & Mayer has assisted clients from large corporations to individual inventors. The firm numbers more than 70 attorneys in four United States offices and provides counseling, litigation, licensing and prosecution services to clients throughout the world. Its attorneys are supported by more than 90 law clerks, technical advisors, paralegals and administrative personnel, who work to ensure accuracy and timely response. The firms concentrations include patent litigation, prosecution and counseling, trademark litigation, registration and counseling, copyright litigation and registration, unfair competition litigation, licensing and franchising, trade secret protection and counseling. The firm s four office locations include Chicago, Washington D.C., Rockford and Seattle.