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6. Tiffany is a paralegal at a large law firm specializing in intellectual property law. Her boss represents inventors, authors, and businesses that are trying

6. Tiffany is a paralegal at a large law firm specializing in intellectual property law. Her boss represents inventors, authors, and businesses that are trying to protect their patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Tiffany doesn't work for the money, because she is the wealthiest person at her firm, thanks to her family bakery, which was started by her grandmother. In fact, it was a trademark infringement case that her family's company waged against a small, start-up bakery that got Tiffany interested in intellectual property law. Tiffany's boss Amber had assigned Tiffany primary responsibility to assist a small drug company protect the patent on its Parkinson's disease medication. Unfortunately, Tiffany mistook the deadline requirements on filing a patent renewal, due to a recent change in the law. As a result, the medication went off-patent and the small drug company was squeezed to the breaking point by the large pharmaceutical companies that made a generic version of the same medication. The small drug company brought a malpractice claim against Tiffany's boss and then amended its complaint to include Tiffany after learning in discovery that, technically, it was Tiffany's fault. Finding out how rich Tiffany was also had a little something to do with the client adding her as a defendant. Based on your jurisdiction's case law on missing deadlines, has Amber committed malpractice? In your jurisdiction, could Tiffany be liable for malpractice

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