Better Meat Co. v. Emergy, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 THE BETTER MEAT CO., No. 2:21-cv-02338-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, ORDER v. 14 EMERGY, Inc. d/b/a MEATI FOODS, PAUL VRONSKY, and BOND CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT LP.,
16 Defendants. 17 EMER GY, INC. d/b/a MEATI FOODS, Counterclaimant, v. THE B ETTER MEAT CO. and AUGUSTUS
PATTILLO,
22 Counterdefendants. 23 24 For the reasons below, the court grants plaintiff and counterdefendant Better Meat Co.’s and Mr. Pattillo’s motion to dismiss. I. BACKGROUND This court has summarized the history of this action in a previous order and incorporates that summary here by reference. See Prior Order (Oct. 12, 2022), ECF No. 108. In short, the parties bring claims concerning their respective intellectual property rights in a mycelium-based meat substitute. See Compl, ECF No. 1; Countercl., ECF No. 113. They originally filed separate suits, but the court dismissed Emergy’s case and directed Emergy to file its claims as counterclaims in this…