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Texas firm promises to hold back on legal threats
Farney Daniels has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that it will stop threatening law suits to small businesses when it has no intention of initiating them.
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The regulator had accused the firm and its client, MPHJ Technology, of making threatening statements about patent suits which were, in fact, false or misleading. But neither organisation has admitted the accusations in the consent order that they have now signed. The regulator had said, in its original complaint, that thousands of small business owners had received communications from the two businesses. Source: ABA
