A federal judge has removed some defendants from a lawsuit stemming from the alleged misuse of test questions from a national pharmaceutical-licensing examination by a faculty member at the University of Georgia, according to The Red and Black, the campus’s student newspaper.

The judge, Clay D. Land of the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ga., dismissed the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents and the university’s College of Pharmacy from the case. They had been among the defendants accused since last summer by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which owns the licensing exam.

The national group initially sued the professor, Flynn W. Warren Jr., and the regents. It subsequently expanded the lawsuit to include the college and another faculty member. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Warren collected exam questions from students who had already taken the test in order to create a review packet for future test-takers.

The association accused the defendants of trade-secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, and breach of contract, noting that Mr. Warren had agreed to stop the practice in a 1995 settlement of a similar dispute. The association also suspended the test, the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, for several months after filing the lawsuit. —Allie Grasgreen