Impossible Foods Private Eye Outed in Fake-Meat Legal Battle

A Boston plant-based meat company outed a private investigator it claims was working covertly for Impossible Foods Inc. before and after Impossible accused it of patent infringement.

Motif Foodworks Inc. told the US District Court for the District of Delaware in a letter made public this week that Impossible used New York City private investigator Sarah Q. Nasir, who posed as a potential client, using a fake name and concocted business, to try to convince Motif to turn over raw samples. The letter was part of a flurry of legal filings partially unsealed late on May 23.

The documents cast ...