Abstract
An appeal of American Chemical Society v. Leadscope Inc., the intellectual property suit the society has been fighting doggedly for nearly a decade, will be heard by the Supreme Court of Ohio (C&EN, Aug. 9, page 9). A date for oral arguments was not provided in the court’s Oct. 27 announcement. The legal battle stretches back to 2002, when ACS brought suit against Leadscope and three former ACS employees who founded the company. ACS alleged that the defendants improperly used ACS’s intellectual property to develop, patent, and market Leadscope software products. The jury found against ACS on these claims. At the same time, the Leadscope defendants filed a counterclaim against ACS, charging malicious litigation in filing its suit, defamation, tortious interference with business relations, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices. The lower court found in favor of Leadscope on all but the last of the counterclaims. An Ohio appeals court affirmed the jury’s decisions ...
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