3M Co. sued a medical supplier in Wisconsin federal court Tuesday for claiming to be able to sell hundreds of thousands of N95 respirators to the state at an artificially inflated price.
The complaint is the latest in a volley of trademark infringement claims filed by 3M targeting companies for engaging in N95 price gouging during the Covid-19 crisis. 3M has also sued alleged price gougers in New York, California, Texas, and Florida.
3M said Scott Patella, a registered agent of Hulomil LLC, contacted Wisconsin’s Department of Administration offering a minimum of 250,000 N95 masks at the “grossly inflated” price ...
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