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I’m only going to discuss the falseadvertising aspects. There is an ongoing, separate litigation about ownership of the relevant patent; plaintiffs alleged that the two inventors assigned the patent to plaintiff Orthex. Taken together, the complaint didn’t plausibly allege commercial advertising or promotion.
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