A retaliatory discharge suit over an alleged quota for patent applications at L’Oreal USA has been dismissed by a federal judge in Newark.
The plaintiff claimed L’Oreal was making its patent lawyers violate the Rules of Professional conduct by submitting frivolous or deficient applications to meet the company’s quotas. But the RPCs are not an adequate foundation for a Conscientious Employee Protection Act claim, and the plaintiff never claimed that he was asked to submit a deficient application in his decade working for L’Oreal, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton of the District of New Jersey said Oct. 30 in Trzaska v. L’Oreal.
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