Judge Dismisses U. of Missouri's Lawsuit Against a Professor in Dispute Over Inventions

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that the University of Missouri system filed against one of its professors in an intellectual-property dispute, the Associated Press reported.

In its complaint, the university accused Galen J. Suppes, who is a professor of chemical engineering at its Columbia campus, and a business partner of depriving the institution of royalty income on inventions that it says were developed in university laboratories.

The U.S. District Court in Kansas City rejected the suit in late April, according to the AP, and the university later filed a similar complaint in a state court. —Charles Huckabee