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Intellectual Property

Feb. 11, 2011

Morgan Lewis Malpractice Case Tossed

Palo Alto-based maker of electronic billboards waited too long to sue Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP for fraud because a former partner botched a patent application, a federal judge ruled this week in a decision that may end a long legal batt


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN JOSE - A Palo Alto-based maker of electronic billboards waited too long to sue Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP over a botched patent application, a federal judge ruled this week in a decision that may end a long legal battle.


Landmark Screens LLC first sued Morgan Lewis and then-partner Thomas D. Kohler for legal malpractice, fraud and other claims in 2005, a few months after Kohler acknowledged...

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