Our competitors are never afraid to call a spade... a public interest group.
Did AFPU magically transform into a "public interest" group because false marking is a qui tam action? Is it because the plaintiff has the word "fair" in it? Since the plaintiff's name actually ends with "LLC" we're at a loss as to how you spin this one.
Only Law360
used the term "public interest group" in its reporting. But—at the risk
of sounding like we're tooting our own horns here—could one of the many web publications that obsess over lawsuits against Apple
have bothered to correctly name the plaintiff here? Not only is the
law firm clearly named in the corporate disclosure document [PDF]
filed the same day as the complaint, but F&B actually fesses up to
its ownership of AFPU on the fourth page of the complaint itself [PDF].
As we've discussed in an earlier column, a majority of false marking suits are being filed by lawyers themselves, along with a few serial plaintiffs.
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