Ropes & Gray filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit by New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which accuses Ropes & Gray and former law firm partner Matthew Vincent of malpractice. Cold Spring claims it has lost millions of dollars in potential licensing and royalty revenue, and seeks $37.5 million to $82.5 million, plus punitive damages, due to Vincent's alleged plagiarizing of lengthy passages from a rival researcher's patent application for use in an unsuccessful Cold Spring patent application.
March 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Vladimir Drozdoff had just started working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory when he was asked to investigate why a patent had been denied for what the lab considered a genetics breakthrough.
Cold Spring, the former home of DNA researcher James Watson, is well known for genetics research. But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2007 denied one of its top scientists, Gregory Hannon, a patent for technology that would allow researchers to selectively turn off genes.
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