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Fraudulent activity and sale of counterfeit 3M products
By Ferraiuoli LLC
3M and King Law Center, Chartered have resolved the legal action 3M initiated in federal district court in Orlando, Florida. The litigation has been amicably resolved through a mutually beneficial agreement, and the lawsuit has been dismissed with prejudice.3M and Ignite Capital Partners, Institutional Financial Sales LLC, and Auta Lopes have also settled a legal action filed in Tallahassee Florida federal district court.
Both lawsuits were related to trademark infringement complaints, as 3M claimed the companies were confusing and deceiving buyers by falsely associating theirselves with 3M’s N95 respirator.
Since January, 3M has doubled the global production of N95 respirators to 1.100 million, including the manufacturing facilities in the United States, Asia and Europe. 3M will double its capacity to 2 thousand million per year in the next 12 months.
While increasing production, 3M is also experiencing more counterfeiting and fraudulent activities related with 3M products, specially N95 respirators. “3M does not sell products directly on web pages or through social networks. In case it is necessary, we recommend consulting availability of 3M products, solely through our authorized distributors,” the company stated in a press release.
Ferraiuoli LLC
Ferraiuoli LLC (FLLC) was founded in 2003 by the late Blas Ferraiuoli-Martínez, Eugenio Torres-Oyola and María Marchand-Sánchez. This group was then joined in 2004 by Fernando J. Rovira-Rullán, thus forming the founding core of FLLC. FLLC has grown exponentially since its founding from a law firm with three attorneys and a support staff of three to its current size of 54 attorneys with a support staff of 38. Also, FLLC has grown from initially being known as an intellectual property and corporate law boutique law firm to a multiservice law firm that handles most matters relevant to a business while continuing to earn praise for its leading intellectual property and corporate practices.
FLLC has been ranked as a leading law firm in Puerto Rico by the professional publication Chambers Latin America in intellectual property, corporate, bankruptcy, labor & employment, real estate, and tax law. Moreover, 17 FLLC partners have been ranked as leaders in their field by the same publication. 4 FLLC partners are ranked as leaders in Intellectual Property, no other firm has more than 2. This recognition in such a short period of time is a tribute to FLLC’s business model.
FLLC prides itself in doing its work faster and more cost-efficiently yet with the same quality as that of its main competitors. The founding name partners are available at all times to attend to client matters. Their work ethic sets the tone for the rest of the firm. FLLC’s founders’ goal has been steady from the outset: become one of the premier multiservice law firms in Puerto Rico.
