Ropes & Gray Wants Patent Malpractice Suit Dismissed

Law360, New York (March 25, 2010, 2:58 PM ET) -- Ropes & Gray LLP has asked a federal judge to toss a lawsuit accusing the firm and a former partner of costing former client Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory millions of dollars in potential licensing fees by botching patent applications.

The firm filed a motion to dismiss the suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, calling the core of its former client's allegations “speculative and implausible on its face” and maintaining that it is also “flatly contradicted by the indisputable...
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