The Financial Services Roundtable, a group that represents 100 of the biggest U.S. financial institutions, raised concerns this week about Foley & Lardner after a firm lawyer authored an article that the group says is a betrayal to the firm’s clients.
The piece, penned by Washington-based Foley & Lardner partner Harold Wegner, highlighted comments made by former Chief Judge Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit about a provision in a patent reform bill the House passed in June. One provision in the legislation, called Section 18, concerns business method patents, a class of patents that claims a new method of doing business.
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