A former graduate student of the State University of New York at Binghamton has filed a $202-million lawsuit against the institution and four of its current and former faculty members, contending that his former dissertation adviser appropriated and published the results of two experiments he conducted without including him as a co-author, a local newspaper, the Press & Sun-Bulletin, reported.

The former student, Charles O. Ogindo, filed the suit in a state trial court last May, but was advised at a hearing on Friday that the trial court had no jurisdiction and that the suit would have to be refiled in the Court of Claims.

Mr. Ogindo told the newspaper he intended to persevere. Besides the university and his former adviser, John J. Eisch, a professor of chemistry, he is suing the department’s chairman, a former chairman, and the university’s director of graduate studies. Mr. Eisch and other university officials declined to comment on the pending litigation. —Charles Huckabee