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: New York Attorney Malpractice BlogPatent Legal Malpractice Cases and Federal Question Jurisdiction
By (Andrew Lavoott Bluestone)
Air Measurement v. Akin Gump is another reminder that there are alternative jurisdictional bases in Federal district court aside from diversity jurisdictino. Here, a legal malpractice case over representation in a patent law case allowed the matter to be brought in Federal District Court. Patent law resides exclusively [for all important aspects] in Federal law, and a legal malpractice case which arose from a claim of mishandling of a patent application will be sufficiently close to federal question for the court to allow a legal malpractice case to be litigated in Federal District Court.
Full post as published by New York Attorney Malpractice Blog on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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