Separate malpractice suits filed recently against Foley & Lardner and Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney involve international patents for very small inventionsand claims of very large damages. For intellectual property lawyers, the stakes for patent filing missteps keep going up.
The North Carolina Department of Justice has filed suit against Buchanan Ingersoll on behalf of the University of North Carolina for allegedly bungling a patent application in Taiwan related to nanotechnology used in flat-screen televisions and computer monitors. The action, filed in state court, alleges that UNC directed intellectual property boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, which merged with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll in 2005, to abandon a patent application in Thailand. Instead, the Burns, Doane lawyers dropped the application in Taiwan. The university claims that the errors cost it between $15 million and $20 million in lost revenue.
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