Kupplungsbau GmbH v. Lerner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice and breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Collins, J.), dated June 13, 1989, which granted the defendant’s motion to disqualify the plaintiff’s attorney.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion is denied.
The plaintiff, a West German corporation, retained the defendant, a patent attorney, to prepare, file and prosecute a United States patent application for a "Maucher friction clutch”. The Maucher friction clutch is a West German invention, owned by the…
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