A company that deploys wireless networks using atmospheric balloons is asking a federal court to vacate an arbitration award against its legal representation in an underlying patent and trade secret dispute with Google.

In a petition filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Space Data Corp. alleges that San Francisco-based law firm Hosie Rice breached its ethical duties when it agreed to broader settlement terms than Space Data authorized in the litigation with Google over its balloon constellations. Space Data contends that during the course of arbitration with Hosie Rice, the firm “pocketed” funds from its trust account allocated for paying vendors used to support the intellectual property claims against Google.

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