Intellectual property lawyers have found their latest target — and it’s other IP lawyers.
In late February attorneys for John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the American Institute of Physicists filed separate suits in federal district court against two midsize patent law firms — Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, based in Minneapolis, and McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff, based in Chicago. According to the plaintiffs, the two firms have prepared patent applications by using unauthorized copies of journal articles published by Wiley and AIP. Specifically, the plaintiffs claim that the firms have included unlicensed copies of articles in their applications to the Patent and Trademark Office, have distributed unauthorized copies to colleagues, and have made unlicensed copies of other articles that are considered for but ultimately not included in patent applications.
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