A lawyer defending an Iowa-based community college in a feud with another local school over a “D"-bearing trademark should be removed from the case because of an “incurable conflict of interest,” a new court filing said.
Attorney R. Scott Johnson from Fredrikson & Byron PA, who is representing the Des Moines Area Community College Foundation, used to serve as an executive committee member at McKee, Voorhees & Sease—plaintiff Drake University’s exclusive intellectual property counsel for the past 40 years, a motion to seal docket entries filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa said.
Drake sued ...
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