New Jersey Court Dismisses DNA Sequencing IP Theft Claims Against Latham & Akin

In a recent judgement, a New Jersey Federal Court dismissed a lawsuit against attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. The plaintiff, a former Cornell University graduate student, had accused the attorneys of orchestrating patent litigation to illicitly gain control of his DNA sequencing intellectual property. However, the court deemed these allegations as mere “conspiracy theories”. Here are more details regarding the case.