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MALING v. FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP

No. SJC-11800.

473 Mass. 336 (2015)

CHRIS E. MALING, vs. FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

December 23, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Bond for the plaintiff.

Erin K. Higgins ( Christopher K. Sweeney with her) for the defendants.

Paul A. Stewart , of California, & Sara E. Hirshon , for Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Heather B. Repicky & Lauren E. Ingegneri , for Boston Patent Law Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Gants, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, & Hines, JJ.

In this case we consider whether an actionable conflict of interest arises under Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.7, as appearing in 471 Mass. 1335 (2015), when attorneys in different offices of the same law firm simultaneously represent business competitors in prosecuting patents on similar inventions, without...

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