The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court didn’t sound eager Tuesday to rewrite the conflict-of-interest laws for patent prosecution.

While that may be good news to the many law firms that joined amicus curiae briefs in Maling v. Finnegan Henderson, it might not be enough to get Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner off the hook for malpractice in a case where it helped two competitors obtain patents on similar inventions.