Better Meat Co. v. Emergy, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BETTER MEAT COMPANY, No. 2:21-cv-02338-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER EMERGY, INC., dba MEATI FOODS, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff Better Meat Company (“Better Meat”) filed a motion entitled “Motion to Designate the Deposition Transcript of Tyler Huggins, Ph.D. Not Confidential.” (ECF No. 82.) Better Meat and defendant, Emergy, Inc. (“Emergy”) appeared for a hearing on this matter via videoconference on September 21, 2022. Counsel Jeffrey M. Theodore and Eric Scott Schlabs appeared for Better Meat. Jeffrey Daniel Smyth and David Mroz appeared for Emergy. Michael Thomas Jones appeared for defendants Bond Capital Management LP and Paul Vronsky. I. BACKGROUND Better Meat alleges it invented a mycelium or mycoprotein-based meat substitute called Rhiza. (Compl. ¶¶ 16–17, ECF No. 1.) Through this action, Better Meat seeks a declaratory judgment of inventorship and asserts state-law claims for tortious interference and unfair 28 …