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Intellectual Property

Mar. 29, 2012

MoFo lawyers win inequitable conduct case

Even under a stricter standard adopted by an appellate court last year for proving inequitable conduct in patent infringement lawsuits, a San Francisco federal judge on Tuesday ruled against a company acquired by Abbott Laboratories.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Even under a stricter standard adopted by an appellate court last year for proving inequitable conduct in patent infringement lawsuits, a San Francisco federal judge on Tuesday ruled against a company acquired by Abbott Laboratories.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup reached the same conclusion in 2008, finding that the company and its attorney, Lawrence Pope, misled a U.S. Patent and Trademark examiner to win approval for...

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