McKenna Long Can't Represent Apeldyn: Samsung

Law360, New York (February 27, 2009) -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is seeking to disqualify McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP from representing Apeldyn Corp. in a patent suit it filed against Samsung and others over liquid crystal display technology, on the grounds that one of the lawyers on the case once represented Samsung.

In a motion filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Samsung said that McKenna Long attorney R. Tyler Goodwyn IV, and by extension his firm,...